2Nd UPDATE: : International actuals are in from most of the studios with a few figure shifts. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies came in higher than projected with a total $54M weekend and a cume of $504.65M. Disney's Into The Woods, previously at a projected $1M for the weekend, nearly doubled that to take a…

Update,  Monday Jan. 5: And with the turn of the New Year, the domestic box office is up 6.5% for the first four days of 2015 with $210.2M versus the same period in 2014 which counted $197.4M according to Rentrak.  The post-New Year’s FSS clocked in with $154.6M, down 26% from the post Christmas frame of $209M — but…

UPDATED WITH MORE ANALYSIS: Warner Bros’ The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, not surprisingly, came out on top at the New Year’s Day domestic box office. It is leading No. 2 Into The Woods and No. 3 Unbroken by comfortable margins, placing it easily in reach of $200M today. Five Armies grossed $9.33M Thursday…

With some extra days off built into moviegoers’ holiday vacations, distribs can be rest assured that multiplex traffic isn’t going to slow. The weekend following Christmas –which is sometimes the first full non-holiday FSS of January or like this year has the New Year’s holiday built into it for four-day frame– is not…

The original Woman In Black starred Daniel Radcliffe and made $130M worldwide in 2012; becoming the highest-grossing British horror film on record. The sequel to the Hammer film, The Woman In Black 2 Angel Of Death, picks up 40 years after the first pic left off. It’s set during World War II after the government has…

An iconic brand, London-based Hammer has had a resurgence over the past few years beginning with smash horror pic The Woman In Black in 2012. Expanding on a relationship that started with that film — via Alliance — and carried over to its upcoming sequel, Hammer and eOne have inked an exclusive multi-year first-look…

Just last week Relativity closed a seven-figure deal for U.S. distribution rights to The Woman In Black 2 and now it has set January 30, 2015 for its release. It’s up against Lionsgate’s horror pic Lazarus, Warner Bros’ Max and Paramount’s sci-fier Project Almanac. Tom Harper directs the sequel to the hit 2012 haunted…

EXCLUSIVE: In a development that bodes well for the coming avalanche of acquisition titles that starts tomorrow at the Toronto Film Festival, Relativity has closed a seven-figure deal for U.S. distribution rights to The Woman In Black 2. That is the sequel to the hit 2012  haunted house film that starred Daniel Radclif…