7TH Write thru, Monday PM:  Sony/MGM’s The Magnificent Seven counts a worldwide total to date of $59.3M with an overseas take including MGM territories at $24.6M. Stateside is riding off with $34.7M. Though $300K lighter than yesterday’s domestic estimate, all records still hold: director Antoine Fuqua’s best…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: It's been a while since we had more than one major studio rollout in the same frame at the international box office, and this weekend provided two — plus some key expansions. MGM/Sony's The Magnificent Seven narrowly topped Warner Bros' Storks in their offshore debuts making Antoine Fuqua, Denzel…

EXCLUSIVE: As he was readying a classic Western reboot that this weekend heads toward a magnificent opening weekend, director Antoine Fuqua sat twice with Deadline to discuss his journey, and a breadth of hot button issues. Our first encounter came while he was editing the film, when the Oscar diversity controversy…

After box office forecasts were off wildly last weekend, bringing 2016 ticket sales to a three-day low of $88.6M, there’s a once-burned/twice-learned feeling among distribution executives heading into this Friday as September’s second-biggest title after Sully, Sony/MGM’s The Magnificent Seven, hits theaters. Some…

I doubt the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa had any idea his 1954 classic Seven Samurai would spawn a worldwide franchise that remains vital more than 60 years later. But the movie that inspired John Sturges’ durable 1960 American version The Magnificent Seven — along with several sequels, a TV series, and an…

Beginning next week Facebook users will have access to Fandango ticketing for select movies and theaters, either through the social site’s ads or specific movie Facebook pages. The new ticketing service will kick off on the Facebook pages of The Magnificent Seven, Kevin Hart: What Now? and Storks. "We are thrilled to…

Sony and MGM have teamed up in an online video shoot-to-kill tournament as part of its marketing campaign to promote its remake of The Magnificent Seven. The game involves top players who first shoot bandits in an epic gun battle, with the victor being the one who has the most kills and is still standing after he…

Antoine Fuqua’s TIFF opener The Magnificent Seven is something of a contradiction—in some ways old-fashioned, respecting the conventions of the grand old western, the film is also bolstered by a uniquely diverse cast, with actors, in this instance, representing accurately the races they represent on screen, an…

Oh, those Canadians. They have a quietly assertive way of getting their point across. Just this morning, Toronto's Globe and Mail ran a big, front-page photo of Denzel Washington at Thursday night's premiere of The Magnificent Seven, smiling like the cat who ate the canary. It sat atop a headline that read: "Birth of…

Reporters pushed, pulled and probed for some sort of Hollywood diversity plaint at a Magnificent Seven press conference, the first of this year's Toronto Film Festival. But they didn't get much. "They didn't blink an eye," was about the most director Antoine Fuqua said of MGM and Sony executives, who were more than…

Hipness fugit. That a certain dusty counter-cultural festival had lost it forever was clear last week, when the Wal-Mart in Rocklin, Ca., put a Burning Man display just inside its front door, complete with a two-page checklist of supplies and a table full of cheap LED flashlights and bottled water. One could argue…

Before leaving The New York Times in July, I heard rumblings about a novel idea that was being floated in the newsroom about plans for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival: How about covering it from a Canadian point of view?. Eh? In years past, that would have meant figuring out where George Clooney was…