EXCLUSIVE: Although Broad Green left Sundance 2015 with what proved to be the fest’s biggest-grossing acquisition in A Walk In The Woods, the company continues to expand into original productions. Broad Green has acquired Bad Influence, a pitch that will be written by Tyger Williams. Williams, who scripted the Screen…

David M. Rosenthal, who hit a home run helming the September box office hit The Perfect Guy, has boarded Sierra Pictures' action thriller How It Ends. The Black List script from Brooks McLaren centers on a mysterious apocalyptic event that turns the roads into mayhem, and a young father will stop at nothing to get…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Ealy, who played the sociopathic title character in Sony/Screen Gems’ recent hit The Perfect Guy, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. The deal comes amid a hot stretch for the actor, who on the big screen has been in Think Like A Man and Think Like A Man Too and About Last Night. He…

FINAL UPDATE, Monday, 2:12 PM: The Perfect Guy won the weekend by only $460K over M. Night Shyamalan’s and Blumhouse’s horror film The Visit — and it did so on 838 fewer screens. So it’s worth noting that Screen Gems’ thriller had a per-screen average of $11,656 compared with The Visit‘s $8,258K. Because both films…

UPDATED: Friday, 4:38 PM: The afternoon is building nicely for Sony’s The Perfect Guy which is now heading towards the top end of the early estimate, and the core African American audience really should rock it tonight. It has not slowed down from early matinees and it now looks like Sony might enjoy a weekend in the…

Director M. Night Shyamalan’s PG-13 rated horror film The Visit grossed $1M+ in late nights Thursday. It began at 7 PM last night in 2,206 theaters. The Universal picture is off to a surprisingly strong start. Remember, these type of films are often front-loaded. Specifically, this fright fest from Blumhouse took in a…

Kathryn Morris has joined the Screen Gems thriller The Perfect Guy. Sanaa Lathan stars as a woman who meets the seemingly perfect guy (Michael Ealy, but he turns into a sociopathic stalker when she breaks up with him. Morris will play Karen, the mother of an all-boys family who is a close confidante of Lathan's…

Frank Whaley (Ray Donovan, The Blacklist) has been cast in The Outskirts, an indie comedy from director Peter Hutchings. Eden Sher, Victoria Justice, Ashley Richards, Katie Chang, Peyton List, Avan Jogia and Will Peltz star in the high school-set pic about two best friends (Justice and Sher) who set out to hatch the…