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Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Beguiled’ Vs. ‘The Big Sick’ At Specialty B.O. This Weekendby Brian Brooks

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‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Dawns With $85M Through Friday, $48M In China – International Box Office

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UPDATE, writethru after 10:07 AM post: Rolling out in 41 overseas markets this weekend, Paramount's Transformers: The Last Knight has clocked an estimated $85M through Friday, according to the studio. That includes $47.9M (RMB 330.76M) from China which, in that market, is 69% above Transformers: Age Of Extinction's June 27, 2014 bow in local currency. Par puts the opening day for Last Knight at No. 3 for an import ever in the Middle Kingdom (including Thursday’s midnight… Read

‘Transformers’ Less Than Meets The Eye With Near $60M Five-Day Domestic Opening – Midday B.O. Update

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UPDATE, Friday, 12:24 PM: Paramount’s Transformers: The Last Knight is looking at an estimated $12.5 million today based off of midday matinees, with a current outlook that’s just under $60M over five days. That number could fall if these estimates don’t maintain themselves into the night. Three-day already is estimated at $36.5M. Again, this is a waning property stateside, which many in town believe Paramount strictly made for China, which is bound to clear a $100M openin… Read

Audience Member Shouts “Let’s Hear It For Women Producers!” As Broadway’s Tony-Winning ‘Indecent’ Extends Run

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Actor Richard Topol stepped forward last night on the stage of Broadway’s Cort Theatre at the end of Indecent to share some news with the audience. A few hours earlier, producer Daryl Roth said that plans to close the show June 25 had been rescinded. The run has been extended through August 6. “Tell everyone you know,” Topol implored the customers. And someone shouted back, “Let’s hear it for women producers!” Even with the boasting rights two Tony Awards confer (for… Read

Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Beguiled’ Opens Against Sundance Hit ‘The Big Sick’ This Weekend – Specialty B.O. Preview

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Two big festival films go head to head this weekend in limited release. Focus Features' The Beguiled, which debuted last month in Cannes will open on both coasts via Focus Features. Sofia Coppola won Best Director in Cannes for the feature, which stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. The Big Sick by Michael Showalter and starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival in January… Read

‘1984’ Broadway Review: Olivia Wilde, Tom Sturridge & Reed Birney Revive Orwell’s Grim Tale

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It’s entirely possible that producers Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman – who’ve brought Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s frequently harrowing adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 to Broadway after three years in London and on the road – meant to parody the punitive Big Brother-like tone with the program insert that accompanies the Playbill. The giveaway is that “101 minutes,” an unsubtle reference to Room 101, the torture chamber described in the 1949 novel and made quite… Read

New York Indie Distributors Kino Lorber & Zeitgeist Films Enter Multi-Year Partnership

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Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films are forming a multi-year strategic alliance to co-acquire four to five features per year. These titles will be marketed and released by Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo’s Zeitgeist Films while Kino Lorber will become the exclusive home entertainment distributor of Zeitgeist’s library of 130 titles. Kino Lorber counts over 1,500 titles in its library. Starting in July, Gerstman and Russo will relocate to Kino Lorber's midtown office in… Read

Legendary Bay Theatre To Be Revived By Cinepolis USA & Real Estate Developer Rick Caruso In Palisades Village

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The classic Pacific Palisades Bay Theatre is coming back. Designed in 1948 with a marquee by S. Charles Lee, the Bay Theatre closed in 1978 and soon was converted into a hardware store. However, Los Angeles real estate developer Rick Caruso announced today that exhibitor Cinépolis USA will be bringing the Bay Theatre back as a luxury cinema house in Caruso’s new shopping-lifestyle center Palisades Village on Swathmore Avenue, opening next summer. The newly redesigned Bay… Read

Tyler Perry’s ‘She’s Living My Life’ To Open Easter Weekend 2018; ‘Madea Family Funeral’ Eyes Next Summer

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After a two-year rest between his 2014 title The Single Moms Club and last October’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, Tyler Perry is ramping up his releases with Lionsgate with She’s Living My Life opening on Easter weekend March 30 next year, and A Madea Family Funeral on Aug. 3, 2018. This brings Perry’s total number of upcoming releases to three with the distributor, including Boo 2! A Madea Halloween on Oct. 20. She’s Living My Life reunites Perry with Oscar and three-time… Read

‘Wonder Woman’ To Conquer ‘Mamma Mia!’ As Top-Grossing Live Action Title By Female Director

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Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman for Warner Bros/DC has crossed the $600M threshold worldwide and soon will become the highest-grossing live-action movie by a female director, taking over Universal’s 2008 musical Mamma Mia! That movie directed by Phyllida Lloyd grossed $609.8M at worldwide B.O. This weekend, Wonder Woman will click past the $300M mark domstically. The movie through 20 days at $289.1M is running 7% ahead of last summer’s DC hit Suicide Squad, which ended its… Read

Lake Bell’s ‘I Do…Until I Don’t’ Locks Down Labor Day Weekend Opening

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EXCLUSIVE: The Film Arcade will release the Lake Bell-directed film I Do…Until I Don’t nationwide on Sept. 1. The pic marks Bell’s second feature directorial following her Sundance Film Festival winning In a World which took the Waldo Salt screenwriting award in 2013. That movie was also nominated for a Film Independent Spirit screenwriting award. I Do…Until I Don’t stars Ed Helms, Paul Reiser, Mary Steenburgen, Amber Heard, Wyatt Cenac, Dolly Wells as well as Bell… Read

‘Come From Away’, ‘A Doll’s House Part 2’ & ‘Great Comet Of 1812’ Cited For Broadway Diversity

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Actors’ Equity Association today named Come From Away, A Doll's House, Part 2 and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 as co-recipients of the union’s Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2016-17 season. Chosen by Equity's National Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, the award honors shows that exemplify and promote the union's founding principles of diversity, inclusion, non-traditional casting and equal opportunity for all who work in… Read

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Running Out Of Gas With $15.6M Opening Day; CinemaScore Dips To B+ – Update

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3rd Update, Thursday 7:14 AM: Paramount is reporting a $15.65M first day for Transformers: The Last Knight inclusive of Tuesday night’s $5.5M previews. While that’s slightly higher from where we saw it yesterday, it remains the lowest full first day for a Transformers movie. The 5-day outlook is still in the mid-$60M range, lower than what tracking and the Melrose Studio were expecting with $70M. Last Knight received a B+ CinemaScore, so that tells you what audiences… Read

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