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Mumbai-based Azure Entertainment and Warner Bros India are teaming to jointly produce a Hindi-language remake of Nancy Meyers’ 2015 comedy/drama The Intern. Rishi Kapoor and Deepika Padukone will take on the roles originally played by Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. Padukone and Sunir Kheterpal will produce under…

Just over a year after Vin Diesel was dragged into court by the former chief of his production company over cash and credits on xXX: Return of Xander Cage and other films, a judge has allowed The Fast and the Furious franchise star to drive off the murky case. In a downtown hearing this morning in Los Angeles Superior…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU, Wednesday AM PT, with actuals: Holdovers were the main attraction at the international box office this weekend as Universal Pictures' Fifty Shades Darker maintained its grip on the No. 1 spot with a better-than-projected $44.5M in 59 markets. That's a 51% drop from last week when the sequel cuffed 20…

Vin Diesel is gunning for it in the Middle Kingdom. Fueled up after a $51.5 million start during its January 20 frame rollout elsewhere, xXx: Return Of Xander Cage has shot past $100M in China in just its first six days, hitting $102M through Wednesday. The Paramount Pictures and Revolution Studios title was at…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU, MONDAY PM PT with actuals: For the second frame in a row, Chinese New Year releases notched the Top 3 spots at the international box office, led by Jackie Chan’s Kung Fu Yoga at $51.4M ($178M cume). But offshore auds outside the Middle Kingdom embraced Hollywood heart, horror and thrills. Studio…

UPDATE, TUESDAY WRITETHRU with actuals: There were a lot of moving parts to the international box office this frame with Chinese New Year titles taking the Top 3 spots and setting a new single-day record. Sony’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter came in tops for Hollywood with an added $26.8M for an offshore cume of…

Despite forecasts this week projecting Amblin/Walden Media/Universal’s A Dog’s Purpose as the clear winner at the domestic box office with an opening north of $20 million, tracking this morning indicates that Uni/Blumhouse’s Split has a good shot at holding on to its top spot after debuting to $40M last weekend. The…

TUESDAY UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Vin Diesel’s resurrection as the eponymous government operative in xXx: Return of Xander Cage led the international box office this weekend with a better-than-estimated $51.5M start in 53 markets. From Paramount Pictures and Revolution Studios, the extreme actioner muscled up…

Monday, 1:25 PM FINAL: Split, the psychological thriller from horrormeister Blumhouse and put into market by the well-oiled marketing and distribution team at Universal Pictures, was a monster in its debut, grabbing $40M for director M. Night Shyamalan. The director certainly seems to have found the perfect partner…

Coming off of a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend that was jammed with adult-targeted films, three more pictures merge into heavy box office traffic this coming weekend with the Universal/Blumhouse psychological thriller Split from M. Night Shyamalan and Paramount Pictures’ xXx: Return of Xander Cage, which stars…

In yet another hook-up between Paramount Pictures and Chinese money and marketing muscle, Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Group have made a worldwide investment in Vin Diesel-starrer xXx: Return Of Xander Cage. The news comes on the heels of the film’s early international previews in India, and on the eve of its…

In a deal that brings new life to one of Hollywood's better-known brands, Revolution Studios—founded by Joe Roth as a mini-major film and television producer in 2000–was purchased Wednesday by Content Partners and its CP Enterprises affiliate from the Fortress Investment Group, which has owned it since 2014. Terms…