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‘Star Wars’ Early Ticket Buyers? Older Dudesby Anthony D'Alessandro

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‘The Martian’ Crosses $200M; ‘Ghost Dimension’ Sets Series Records; ‘Ant-Man’ Leggy In China – Intl B.O. Update

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UPDATE, SUNDAY 4:15 PM PT: Based on today's international estimates for the weekend, the frame is down about 15% from last week across the Top 10 studio titles. Looking at just the Top 3, which also led last week but in different order, The Martian ($30.2M), Hotel Transylvania 2 ($28.7M) and Ant-Man ($22M — and creeping up on $500M global), are off a slight 27%. Compared to last year, however, this week’s top trio is up about 24% from the same frame in 2014 when Annabelle… Read

Jon Chu On ‘Jem And The Holograms’: “This Morning Isn’t The Best Kind Of Day”

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“Soooo, this is a bit awkward,” director Jon Chu says in his opening keynote remarks Saturday at Film Independent Forum. He and Jason Blum set out to make a live action movie adaptation of 30-year-old classic animated TV show Jem And The Holograms. They made it “with little resources, all in L.A.,” he said. “It looks like our $5 million movie … is going to make about $1.2 million this weekend.” (As of Sunday morning, an estimated $1.32 million.) “So this morning isn’t the… Read

Specialty B.O.: ‘Suffragette’ Voted Top Opener; Laurie Anderson’s ‘Heart Of A Dog’ Is Stout

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Focus Features' awards hopeful Suffragette marched atop the Specialty Box Office's sizable group of openers this weekend, just weeks after bowing at home in the U.K. The feature starring Carey Mulligan averaged over $19K in four theaters, giving the title the weekend's highest PTA as of Sunday morning overall. Laurie Anderson's personal essay doc Heart Of A Dog from Abramorama opened in a single theater grossing $14,750, while Broad Green Pictures' Sarah Silverman starrer… Read

Bombs Away! ‘Last Witch Hunter’, ‘Ghost Dimension’, ‘Jem’, ‘Kasbah’ Tank As ‘Martian’ Flies High To No. 1 – Sunday Postmortem

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5TH UPDATE, Sunday 8:20 AM Final: In a weekend with distributors offering five wide entries, most of which were paltry, audiences decided what was old was new for them as 20th Century Fox’s The Martian shot its way back to No. 1 with an estimated $15.9M and $166.4M. Sony’s Goosebumps chased behind in No. 2 with a studio-reported $15.5M, down 34% at 3,501 theaters and a 10-day take of $43.7M. Nonetheless, the flood of wide releases didn’t boost business in any way… Read

Brian d’Arcy James, Jonathan Groff & Andrew Rannells Score Triple Crown For ‘Hamilton’ Crowd – Video

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The pre-show outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre has become almost as hot as tickets to Hamilton, playing inside. What began as a free bit of entertainment — dubbed “Ham4Ham” — for the crowd lined up for hours in hopes of scoring $10 lottery tickets to the sold-out show, has become the Broadway version of those downtown clubs where Paul McCartney or Sting or Jerry Seinfeld might show up, unannounced, to test new material or just hang out. In addition to support from the Ha… Read

Gerard & Roth On Chasing Broadway’s Big Numbers And Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Troupe (?)

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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I doubt there’s any place hotter on Planet Theater today than 425 Lafayette Street, in the East Village. The Public hasn’t just been sending one show after another to Broadway (though with Fun Home, Hamilton and, soon, Eclipsed — dayenu, it would have been enough). It’s also holding… Read

‘Spectre’ Looms Large Over UK Box Office, But Can It Top ‘Skyfall’?

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While the latest James Bond pic doesn't open Stateside — or in major international rollout — for another two weeks, look for Sony/MGM’s Spectre to loom large over the UK next week. The 24th movie in the 007 franchise is set to kick off its first paid previews Monday as it simultaneously world premieres at London’s Royal Albert Hall. This Bond, again starring Daniel Craig, has big shoes to fill given 2012's Skyfall set the UK box office ablaze with a £20.1M ($32.4M at the… Read

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Advance Tickets Bought Largely By Older Men

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After Monday’s record-breaking advance-sales day for Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which saw Imax gross $6.5M and Fandango, AMC and MovieTickets.com reap record highs, exhib-distrib marketing data corp Movio Media reports that 70% of those snapping up advance tickets to the seventh Star Wars title were males ages 18-49. The average age of those ticket-buyers was 34. Other stats uncovered by Movio about Force Awakens ticket buyers: They’re regular moviegoers who… Read

‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Play Details Revealed; 2-Part Sequel Set After ‘Deathly Hallows’

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When we last saw Harry Potter at the end of Deathly Hallows Part 2, he was an adult, seeing off his own son to Hogwarts from King’s Cross’ Platform 9 3/4. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child will pick up from there. Details were revealed today about the stage play that’s based on a story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany and comes from Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender's Playground Entertainment and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions. It was… Read

Broadway Goes Back To The Future With Busby Berkeley-Style ‘Dames At Sea’ -Review

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In the 1960s, the idea of sending up popular culture was so fresh it could still be considered daring — “Monster Mash” was a Top 10 Halloween hit in 1962 and Batman was on TV in 1966, the same year Hal Prince and the Bye Bye Birdie team of Lee Adams and Charles Strouse struck out with It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane… It’s Superman. Way off Broadway at Caffé Cino, a tiny venue on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village that more typically presented genre-busting playwrights like… Read

‘Suffragette’, ‘I Smile Back’, ‘Nasty Baby’: Girl Power At The Specialty Box Office

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A number of films about women, and even from women, are among the heavy slate of new Specialty features taking their bow this weekend. Carey Mulligan is getting Awards attention for Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, also starring Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, which Focus Features will open in four New York and Los Angeles venues tomorrow. The film, about the fight for women’s right to vote and beyond, also managed to break a filmmaking barrier getting unprecedented… Read

Byron Allen Acquires Indie Distribution Company Freestyle Releasing

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Freestyle Releasing, the company co-founded by Mark Borde and the late Susan Jackson, has just been bought by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios. The acquisition is significant in that Freestyle has an output deal with Netflix and is the distributor behind such faith-based fare as God’s Not Dead and Woodlawn. The company said will distribute about 15 to 20 films per year. Borde and his staff of about 25 are staying on board, which makes sense because the label is Borde… Read

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