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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s original feature Troop Zero, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, will be released worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on Jan. 17, 2020. Pic is the first feature title being announced for the Amazon Prime streaming 2020 film slate. Previously reported exclusively…

Finance sources tell us today that Warner Bros.’ weekend Stephen King upset Doctor Sleep is poised to lose around $20M after all ancillaries, should it earn $100M at the global box office. If ticket sales are lower, in the $80M range, then the loss swells to around $30M+. This comes after the grand under-performance…

UPDATE, writethru: While Warner Bros' Doctor Sleep is snoozing at the domestic and international box office with a global total of just $34.1M to date (and despite good reviews and audience scores), the Burbank studio has a major milestone ahead as Joker closes in on the $1B mark worldwide. Not only will the movie…

Despite pumping out some of the most riveting cinema in the world, South Korea has long flailed at the domestic box office. Until now, with NEON’s release of Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or winner Parasite, which soared past $11.278M this weekend, with many distribution sources projecting the pic’s…

UPDATED with adjusted grosses and actuals. In its first week, the Abramorama docu The All-Americans had a soft opening on three screens, grossing $7,895 at the specialty box office. American Dharma‘s actual gross for its second weekend was $7,152 bringing its cume to $17,421 while NatGeo released its grosses for The Ca…

4th Update, Sunday AM Final: First of all, it’s a really crappy weekend at the box office overall, with ticket sales down 28% from a year ago with $121.6M. The Veterans Day frame either goes one of two ways: It’s a great place to launch a blockbuster, i.e. 2012’s Skyfall ($88.3M), 2013’s Thor: Dark World (2013), or…

Sony’s sequel to its $962.1M global hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will debut in China on Dec. 13 in sync with its domestic opening. Pic will go up against local titles Skyfire and Gone With the Light that weekend. China is a rich territory for Dwayne Johnson with such pics like Hobbs…

As films like Parasite, Jojo Rabbit and Judy flourish and find audiences, Shia LaBeouf’s semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy looks to sweeten the pot and bring its unique vision to not only the Specialty box office space but also the award season race. Directed by visionary filmmaker Alma Har’el, whose feature…

Paramount has dated their next Paranormal Activity movie for March 19, 2021 while a Hasbro My Little Pony is in store for Sept. 24 that year. Currently there is no director or cast set for the Blumhouse-produced Paranormal Activity which through six movies counts $890.4M. Paranormal Activity 7 will face off against…

Lionsgate/Media Rights Capital’s Knives Out arrived on tracking this morning with estimates ranging from $22M-$25M over the Wednesday through Sunday Thanksgiving period. While that number isn’t anything to jump up and down about for a Thanksgiving release, there’s a lot of goodwill here in the Rian Johnson whodunit’s…

Last weekend didn’t start the fire at the November box office after Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s mechanical breakdown with Terminator: Dark Fate, which is set to lose $130 million off an estimated combined $325M production and global P&A cost and $29M stateside opening. This weekend, Warner Bros in a rare move for…

Comscore has named board member Bill Livek as its chief executive officer, replacing the interim CEO Dale Fuller. It also reported lower third-quarter revenue, but its net loss that was far less than Q3 last year. The CEO move comes as the show business data-measurement corporation is facing headwinds. It has seen…