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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that layoffs started at Solstice Studios today, impacting all divisions at the company. We hear that for those existing employees remaining, management and executives will take between 25% to 30% deferral in pay. Still awaiting word as to exactly which executives might be…

Terry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as EVP of Communications. She replaces Elissa Greer, who has segued to the role of lead communications consultant on the studio's next release, the Mark Wahlberg drama Good Joe Bell, which Solstice recently snapped up at TIFF for $20M as Deadline first reported. Curtin will…

EXCLUSIVE: Following on from Russell Crowe road-rage thriller Unhinged, filmmaker Derrick Borte is set to direct thriller Black Forest, on which LA-based Film Bridge International is launching world sales. Written by Borte and Daniel Forte (American Dreamer), the film will alight on a group of university students…

Sunday AM Update: Here’s something we didn’t see in Canada last weekend with Unhinged which says a lot about the overall domestic marketplace right now: Business went up between Friday and Saturday by 10%, moving from $1.4M to $1.56M. Overall 3-day for the Derrick Borte movie is now estimated at $4M at 1,823 theaters…

Russell Crowe is Unhinged! That line pretty much sells this entire 91-minute thriller and also pretty much sums up the depth of what is on view beyond mind-numbing violence committed by a driver whose grievances against the way the world has treated him manifest into all-out road rage against a mother taking her son…

China was the big breakout this past weekend, leading the international box office for the fourth frame in a row and powered by the reissue of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone in a 4K 3D restoration that conjured $13.6M on 16,000 screens over the three-day frame. With Monday and Tuesday’s Middle…

Refresh for updates The top grossing titles at the weekend domestic box office, were straight from Canada with Paramount’s SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run landing the No. 1 spot with $900K from 300 locations per the Melrose Ave studio with $345K on Friday, and $300K on Saturday, -13%. SpongeBob Movie, along with Tro…

Exhibition will slowly come back to life this Friday at the box office after largely being shutdown for 21 weeks due to the pandemic. However, the first notable ticket sales will be coming out of the Great White North. Paramount is giving a big screen release to The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run in Canada at 301…

There was further good news from the international box office this weekend, even as it continues to be clear that markets need fresh titles to keep the reopening momentum going — be they local, from Hollywood or even reissues of older event pictures. We remain in uncharted waters around the globe. But progress in the…

While Universal's Dolittle and Warner Bros' reissue of Interstellar were the big kahunas in China this weekend, Russell Crowe-starrer Unhinged hit the road in 19 new markets over the session. Among them, the UK, Australia, Netherlands and New Zealand where the Solstice Studios pic was No. 1. They joined Germany which…

Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged became the most high-profile UK cinema release in the pandemic era this week, taking a provisional $230K (£174,901) from 250 sites, an average of around $920, with venues still to report. That number may look fairly minor on first glance but in the current context it offers reason for…

3rd Update, 12:15PM: With Warner Bros. Tenet now dated for Thursday, Sept. 3 in the U.S., Solstice Studios will now open Unhinged on Aug. 21. That’s the same day that Warner Bros. has set the reissue of Christopher Nolan’s 10th anniversary of Inception in select markets. PREVIOUS UPDATE, July 23: Solstice Studios is…