Each year when Deadline runs its Most Valuable Blockbuster film profitability countdown, readers understandably ask about certain wildly profitable films that for one reason or another, didn’t crack the Top 20. But that doesn’t mean these films don’t tell compelling stories in their own right. Here are snapshots of…

EXCLUSIVE: Moviegoers have voted with their wallets, and Universal’s latest horror collaboration with Blumhouse productions, The Purge: Election Year, is the highest-grossing title in the Purge horror franchise with a worldwide ticket stub count of $114.2M. Summer saw a huge boom for the horror genre with The Conjurin…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite a lackluster summer and a meh Fourth of July weekend, this past holiday ended up the fourth-best three-day holiday weekend in 21 years — up 40% from last year. How is that even possible? Well, given that the calendar year fell on a Monday, Sunday basically performed like a Saturday and the diversity…

TUESDAY FINAL UPDATE, 2:30 PM: Blame it on the good weather across the country, an unusually competitive weekend with family titles and a basic lack of interest in the product, but we have some certifiable duds on our hands this Fourth of July including one from brandmaster Steven Spielberg himself. Shouldering…

After the success of 2013’s low-budget horror thriller The Purge, followed the next year by The Purge: Anarchy, it was inevitable that there would be more in this clever, diabolically cynical and violent series of films that are made for modest cost, but produce big returns. The Purge: Election Year, a timely title if…

“I Purge To Keep My Country Great.” That’s about as on the nose as it gets, appropriate for an  election-themed TV spot for The Purge: Election Year that made its debut tonight during the Republican debate. The fake campaign ad plays out like so many nondescript campaign ads we’ve already seen in the current election…