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Talk about pent-up demand. Detective Chinatown 3, which was originally scheduled to hit Chinese cinemas during the Lunar New Year period in 2020, has sprung out of the gate today with an astonishing Maoyan-estimated RMB 1.05B ($163M) to score the biggest opening-day gross ever of any movie in a single market. The debut overtakes Avengers:
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While Disney CEO Bob Chapek remains flexible about release strategies for movies between the big screen and the studio’s streaming service Disney+, he said today that Marvel’s long-awaited feature Black Widow is still set to be a pure theatrical release as mentioned back at the company’s December investor day. However, “we’ll be watching to see the reopening
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Exclusive Ron Perlman‘s a single man again, legally speaking, but likely not for long … because he already has plans to get hitched again. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … the judge signed off on the “Hellboy” star’s request to be declared single in his divorce from Opal Stone Perlman, leaving the
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Refresh for updates and top 10 chart: On one of the most difficult box office dates on the calendar, Super Bowl weekend, and during a pandemic, Warner Bros.’ second weekend of its Denzel Washington-Rami Malek-Jared Leto thriller The Little Things made $2.1M at 2,206 theaters, -55% from its first weekend; putting it’s running domestic total through ten
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Disney/Pixar’s Soul continues to shine overseas with a $96.2M cume after seven frames. In 11 markets this session, the Pete Docter-helmed original added $6.9M to its international box office kitty with No. 1s again in Russia and Korea. In China, it has surpassed Incredibles 2 to become the market’s 2nd highest-grossing Pixar title ever. China
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Exclusive Chris Pratt‘s been trending for posting horribly bigoted tweets from back before his Marvel Universe days, but he says the backlash is unwarranted … because the tweets are phony. A spokesperson for the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star tells TMZ … he never posted the offensive messages that began circulating Wednesday morning. They appeared
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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of receiving two Golden Globe nominations for its Sia-directed movie Music, Vertical Entertainment can boast that its Nate Parker feature American Skin has become the distributor’s highest grossing title on PVOD with $4M over two weeks. American Skin debuted on Jan. 15 in select cinemas and on on-demand platforms such as Apple, Amazon, Vudu,
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Jordan Belfort initially thought the GameStop stock market drama was a version of a “pump and dump” scheme, which the stock broker pleaded guilty for in 1999. After looking into the situation further, Belfort has shown his support for the “revolution” in association with Wall Street, calling the current controversy a paradigm shift that will
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Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen will make his feature directorial debut with Falling which makes its premiere in theaters, digital and on demand today. Mortensen went all-in with his feature debut because also wrote, starred in and composed the score for Falling to show us that he’s not just a one-trick pony (but was there any doubt?) Falling follows
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Constantin’s new Resident Evil distributed by Sony Screen Gems has been set to open on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3 this year. Paramount’s Jackass is the only other major studio wide release scheduled at that time. This is the movie we told you about that’s an origin story starring Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia
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It’s understandable in terms of wanting your kids to retain as much of a normal life as possible, especially in their young years. He and Dax Shepard could relate to each other’s experiences, considering the Parenthood star is married to Frozen’s Princess Anna, Kristen Bell, which just about every kid is aware of. Timberlake talked
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Sony Pictures Classics has made some tweaks to its release schedule for four upcoming pics and one that’s already in theaters. The distributor run by co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard said that Dror Moreh’s documentary The Human Factor, which opened last month in Los Angeles and New York, will go nationwide in theaters on May 7.
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