Robert Vaughn, whose Napoleon Solo on NBC’s spy yarn The Man From U.N.C.L.E. set TV’s 1960s standard for suavity and crimebusting cool, died this morning after a brief battle with acute leukemia. He was 83. His manager Matthew Sullivan confirmed the news to Deadline. “Mr. Vaughn passed away with his family around him,&#8221…

7TH & 6TH UPDATE, Monday 4:30PM after 6:30 AM post with chart: Universal/Legendary’s Straight Outta Compton steamrolled its initial $40M-$50M projections this weekend with a $60.2M opening, easily making it the fifth-highest August opener ever. Rival distributors always knew that the F. Gary Gray-directed-film was…

5th UPDATE, 12:52 PM PT: Finally received final grosses on Sony’s Pixels and is updated below as of 3:48 PM. Meanwhile, the new entry The Man From U.N.C.L.E grossed $12M in 23 markets and only opened to No. 3 in its key U.K. market, while Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation pulled in yet another nice haul over the…

Despite its lower-than-anticipated weekend take of $13.6M Stateside, Warner Bros pretty much built The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to succeed abroad complete with its British actors Henry Cavill and Hugh Grant, as well as Swedish burgeoning star Alicia Vikander, hot off Ex-Machina. It should be able to count on offshore for a…

One of the more beloved TV series of the 1960s was certainly NBC’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was the network’s way of answering the James Bond craze. Robert Vaughn starred as CIA agent Napoleon Solo, who was teamed with KGB agent Illya Kuryakin played by David McCallum. For years, Warner Bros has been trying to…

Even though the cash register for the summer box office doesn’t close until the end of Labor Day, kids are already heading back to school. Rentrak reports that 24% K-12 schools are back in session this Friday versus the 9% that were in attendance last Friday. As such, the release schedule adjusts accordingly, with…

Warner Bros just unveiled a new trailer for its tentpole TV series adaptation The Man From U.N.C.L.E. during the studio’s panel presentation at Comic-Con. It came as stars Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki were introduced on stage in Hall H. (Director Guy Ritchie was not there but…

Warner Bros took over Comic-Con’s massive Hall H this morning and provided the latest intel on the progression of its DC Universe films, including the cast and new trailers for Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Suicide Squad as well as previews of Guy Ritchie’s Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Joe Wright’s Peter Pan…

It’s 1963, some of the chilliest days of the Cold War, and an international criminal organization with ties to ex-Nazis has sprung up. Rumor has it they have an atom bomb. Welcome to The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the latest ’60s TV-to-screen adaptation. Guy Ritchie directs the pic, which stars Henry Cavill as CIA agent…

UPDATED, 7:30PM: Just like it did last week, Warner Bros has followed schedule changes with two more date announcements for unspecific films a few hours later. This time the studio said it will release an Untitled New Line Horror Film on January 29, 2016, and another on September 9, 2016. Mark your calendars. PREVIOUSL…

EXCLUSIVE: Luca Calvani, is set to play the lead villain role of Alexander in director Guy Ritchie‘s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at Warner Bros. And the When In Rome actor has just landed an agency, signing with Paradigm. The U.N.C.L.E. character is a wealthy Italian shipping heir who smuggled Nazi gold at end of WWII…

Guy Ritchie has set a new reunion with his Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes star Jared Harris (Mad Men) has joined Ritchie’s Man From U.N.C.L.E. for WB in the role of Sanders. Filming begins September 9 in England, Rome, and Naples. The big screen update of the 1960s TV series stars Man of Steel‘s Henry Cavill as CIA agent…