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‘Captain America’ To Cross $300M Today; ‘Money Monster’ At $14.7M, ‘The Darkness’ Finds $4.9M – Monday Actualsby Anita Busch

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‘Captain America’ To Cross $300M Today As ‘Money Monster’ Cashes $14.7M & ‘The Darkness’ Finds $4.9M – Monday B.O. Final

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5TH UPDATE, MONDAY, 2:35 PM: The final tallies are in and Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 59% in its second weekend to gross $72.6 million, bringing it total domestic cume to $295.9.M. Today, it will become the third $300M+ film from Disney this quarter, along with its animated Zootopia and Jon Favreau’s live-action/CGI favorite The Jungle Book which climbed past the milestone this weekend. Worldwide, Civil War has grossed $943.2M. Sony’s Money Monster… Read

The End Is Near As Broadway Box Office Dips, Ticket Prices Too

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With one week left in the 2015-2016 Broadway season, the box office is telling a different story than the one on the marquees. Outside the theaters, there’s plenty of excitement as ticket buyers clamor for entry to the most ambitious range of shows in memory, offering the electricity of revolution (Hamilton, Shuffle Along Etc., Eclipsed), the mirrored dramas of human despair and triumph (The Color Purple, The Father, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Blackbird, On Your… Read

‘Angry Birds Movie’ Takes Off With $43M; ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Hits $647M Offshore, $943M WW – Intl B.O. Final

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FINAL UPDATE, WRITETHRU, Monday, 12:12 PM: We are only awaiting on The Nice Guys grosses from Bloom (the movie is in previews right now), but all other tallies are in. Sony’s international debut of The Angry Birds Movie took off this weekend with $43M in 74 markets. In 37 of those, it grabbed the No. 1 perch. It also scored a record May opening for an original animated film. The inaugural flight topped The Lego Movie by 20% in the same grouping of markets and at current… Read

‘Insidious: Chapter 4’ A Go; Blumhouse Pic Set For October 2017 Release

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Blumhouse has scared up a plan for Insidious: Chapter 4, a pic that will extend the supernatural thriller franchise at Universal. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions is financing and will handle international distribution. Newcomer Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan) has come aboard to direct a pic that will be written by co-creator Leigh Whannell, who wrote the trilogy and directed 2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3. An October 20, 2017, release date has been set. Jason… Read

A24’s ’The Lobster’ Red Hot In 2016’s Top Specialty Bow; Amazon/Roadside’s ’Love & Friendship’ Robust: Specialty Box Office

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The Lobster pinched the year's best opening for a Specialty release with a more than $47K per theater average. A24, which picked up the title in February, platformed the title starring starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in four theaters. Still, The Lobster was not the only Specialty to find enthusiastic audiences. Amazon/Roadside Attractions' joint release of Jane Austen period drama Love & Friendship also scored in several locations Friday to Sunday with a $33,187… Read

Universal Scraps Exhibitor Requests For Clearances Starting With ‘Warcraft’; AMC To Play In Competitive Zones

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EXCLUSIVE: “The second domino tumbles!” That’s what one Delaware-based theater owner exclaimed to Deadline today, referring to the news in the exhibition world that Universal has followed 20th Century Fox’s lead in not granting exhibitor clearances, beginning with the June 10 release of the Legendary Pictures title Warcraft. For studios, this is a matter of good business, keeping their hands clean of the calamity that has ensued with the Justice Department’s investigation… Read

‘Love & Friendship’, ‘The Lobster’, ‘Pele’ Docu – Specialty Preview

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It isn't often that a Whit Stillman movie opens, but this weekend is one of those rare occasions. Starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny and Xavier Samuel, the Jane Austen-inspired Love & Friendship will have an exclusive theatrical window via Amazon and Roadside Attractions. A24 is opening last year’s Cannes Jury Prize winner The Lobster, after taking over the title's release in February. The film, starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and John C. Reilly, will be in… Read

‘Jungle Book’ Passes $500M Overseas On Way To $800M WW, To Top ‘Deadpool’ In UK

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Disney’s The Jungle Book, as expected, surpassed $500M internationally yesterday and today will join Zootopia as the second Disney release of 2016 to cross the $800M worldwide mark. And the studio and Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War will become the third in the $800M realm soon enough. Its global cume right now sits at $788.2M. Meanwhile, Jungle Book is swinging higher in the U.K. than Deadpool. By the end of this weekend, the Jon Favreau-directed live-action, CGI… Read

Broadway’s Book Problem & Tony Awards’ R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Gerard & Roth

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UPDATE  8:45: Adds more comment regarding Broadway book writers. 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. ROTH: It’s starting to feel like the only people who really get what a book writer does are book writers. This week, a group of our most accomplished librettists wrote a collective Letter To The Editor of The New York Times each… Read

Tony Watch: With The Smashing ‘She Loves Me’ On Broadway And Hulu’s ‘Crushed’, Director Scott Ellis Comes Full Circle

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EXCLUSIVE: Here are some figures you haven’t seen bandied about much in the Tony nominations numbers game: Competing in the all-important best show categories are four new plays, five new musicals, five play revivals and four musical revivals, 18 in all. Four of those shows come from a single source: The Roundabout Theatre Company, one of four non-profits operating Broadway houses (the others are Lincoln Center Theater, the Manhattan Theatre Club and the most recent… Read

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Crosses $200M Stateside And Passes ‘Winter Soldier’ Globally; ‘Jungle Book’ On Verge Of Crossing $300M Domestic, $500M Int’l

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Disney is having a heck of a run as it has three pictures currently in the domestic marketplace that together have grossed over $825M — so far. Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War just crossed $200M, having grossed another $13.7M last night which is a tad higher than its Monday take ($13.3M) and a bigger take than some pictures’ full three-day weekend haul. The domestic gross is now $206.2M. It also just passed the total global cume of Captain America: The Winter Soldier… Read

Savion Glover, Rhiannon Giddens Join Tony Nominated ‘Shuffle Along’

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A couple of unexpected plot turns have resulted in cast changes at Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, the George C. Wolfe show that picked up 10 Tony Awards nominations last week including Best Musical. The show also was named best new musical of the season by the New York Drama Critics Circle. Star Audra McDonald, who had been set to take a leave from the show beginning shortly after the Tony Awards in June to fulfill a… Read

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