UPDATED, Monday, 12:47 PM: We have all 29 films’ final totals updated so far, including this weekend’s big box office king, The Maze Runner. Updated so far (besides Maze Runner) are Universal’s The Boxtrolls and Lucy, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, and the Fox titles Let’s Be Cops, How To Train Your Dragon 2…
FINAL UPDATE, Monday, 2:12 PM: The fall season is off to a good start, thanks to Fox’s The Maze Runnerwhich opened nicely to $32.5M for the three-day weekend. The next installment of the film, TheMaze Runner 2: Scorch Trials, is already set to bow September 18, 2015. While Fox has created another franchise for the…
Fox’s The Maze Runner grabbed $1.1M in late-night showings at 2,200 locations starting at 10 PM. The best comparison is probably the sci-fi actioner Ender’s Game, which launched with $1.4 million in November 2013 and went on to have an opening weekend gross of $27M (on the other hand, it cost three times more than Maze…
Three new pictures bow this weekend with Fox’s sci-fi action thriller The Maze Runnerleading the way. It opens tonight at 10 PM, having already made a strong bow overseas to heavily outpace Divergent and gross $8.5M so far. After this weekend’s bow in the states, the picture will likely have grossed its production…
It looks like the Toronto Film Festival has unearthed another Oscar-caliber gem. Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond says the Stephen Hawking love story that just had its world premiere is a contender in both Best Picture and the acting categories. He also weighs in on Chris Rock’s Top Five (amid an eight-figure bid…
Warner Bros has dropped the first trailer for the Shawn Levy-directed dramedy This Is Where I Leave You, based on Jonathan Tropper’s bestselling novel. Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda lead the killer ensemble cast in the pic about a dysfunctional family reluctantly brought together for the funeral of its…
Shawn Levy‘s ensemble dramedy about a dysfunctional family reluctantly brought together for the funeral of its patriarch will hit theaters September 12, Warners said tonight. This Is Where I Leave You stars Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Jane Fonda, Rose Byrne, Ben Schwartz, Corey Stoll, Dax Shepard, Timothy…
EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Levy’s ensemble comedy This Is Where I Leave You, about a dysfunctional family gathered at the funeral of its patriarch, has added Dax Shepard to the mix. He’ll play a popular Howard Stern-like radio shock jock opposite Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schwartz, Corey Stoll…
EXCLUSIVE:Jane Fonda is in negotiations to join Tina Fey and Jason Bateman in This Is Where I Leave You. The two-time Oscar winner will play the newly widowed Hillary Foxman in the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's comic 2009 novel. The book focuses on a dysfunctional family reunited for a very tense week to mourn the…
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is in talks with Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, and Leslie Mann to headline the ensemble of This Is Where I Leave You, the Adam Shankman-directed adaptation of the Jonathan Tropper comic novel about four siblings who come home to sit ‘shiva’ for their deceased father. They are trapped in…