‘Mortal Kombat II’ & ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ In Smackdown At Weekend Box Office With $40M-$42M Apiece

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: The moms and their daughters will decide who reigns supreme at this weekend’s box office with 20th Century Studios’ heavily female-skewing The Devil Wears Prada 2 and the dude-dominant New Line/Atomic Monster sequel Mortal Kombat II vying for No. 1 with around $40M-$42M apiece. For Devil Wears Prada 2, that’s a 45%-48%…

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Black Bear And Artists Equity Partner With Big Picture Co. On ‘A Woman In The Sun’ Starring Renée Zellweger, Sissy Spacek And Mia Threapleton

Black Bear and Artists Equity have partnered on the dramatic feature A Woman in the Sun, starring Renée Zellweger and Sissy Spacek alongside rising star Mia Threapleton. A Woman in the Sun follows a month in the life of Claire Keating, a bartender on Nantucket and part of the island’s dwindling middle class. When her mother gets sick and…

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‘Linda Perry: Let It Die Here’ Timed To New Album, Tony Leung In ‘Silent Friend’, ‘Blue Film’ & ‘Influenced’ – Specialty Preview

Well-reviewed limited releases including psycho-sexual drama Blue Film, Ildikó Enyed’s Silent Friend and documentaries about Linda Perry (timed to her first solo album in over 25 years), python hunting in the Everglades and gun control are new at the indie film box office this weekend as studio giants The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mortal…

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Village Roadshow Relinquishes ‘Matrix Resurrections’ Stake In $57M Payout To Warner Bros.

A re-configured multimillion-dollar settlement of sorts between Village Roadshow and Warner Bros over 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections seems prophetic and very much of the matrix in its own special way. With the once-big-league film co-financier paying out $57 million to the likely soon-to-be David Ellison-owned studio, the words of Matrix Resurrections‘ Smith to Neo of…

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Merged Reality: HBO Max & Paramount+ Are Set To Be United, What Does That Mean For Unscripted?

As Paramount prepares to take over Warner Bros., the likely merger of HBO Max and Paramount+ would dominate the unscripted television market, new research has found. Paramount CEO David Ellison revealed in March that he plans to merge the two streaming services giving a combined platform over 200M subscribers. There’s been much discussion what a…

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