Weekend Box Office: ‘The Accountant’ Adds Up To Number One, ‘Max Steel’ Melts Down
The Accountant snagged first place with $24 million. Max Steel, the latest action toy-turned-tv-show movie adaptation, arrived with just $2.1 million and didn’t even break into the top ten, settling for a eleventh place start. (CB)
Lionsgate Circling Relativity Library As Chapter 7 Filing Looms
Lionsgate is circling Relativity’s 40-plus title library after it has become clear that CEO Ryan Kavanaugh’s company is backed into a financial corner with cash flow rapidly declining. (DH)
Robin Wright And Reese Witherspoon Are Adapting A TV Series About U.S. First Ladies
Wright and Witherspoon are enlisting the help of Anonymous Content. The show will be based on Kate Andersen Brower’s bestselling book First Women: The Grace & Power Of America’s Modern First Ladies. (VF)
Andrew Haigh Teams With See-Saw, BBC On ‘North Water’ TV Series
Andrew Haigh will adapt and direct the limited series The North Water, based on Ian McGuire’s novel. The series is being developed with the BBC and See-Saw Films. (THR)
‘The Walking Dead’ Renewed For Season 8
AMC renewed The Walking Dead for Season 8 a week before the Season 7 premiere. The news came Sunday during the show’s two-hour retrospective. (HP)
Amazon’s ‘Bosch’ Renewed For Season 4
Amazon has renewed Bosch for Season 4, well ahead of the crime drama’s Season 3 premiere. (TVL)
‘Hidden Figures’ Will Be Released On December 25
The qualifying run will make Theodore Melfi’s film eligible for the Academy Awards. It will then go into wide release on January 6, up a week from Twentieth Century Fox’s original date of January 13. (IW)
DMG Nabs Rights To Ken Liu’s Fantasy Epic ‘Grace of Kings,’ Plans Film Franchise
DMG Entertainment has nabbed worldwide film and licensing rights to The Grace of Kings, with an eye toward turning the fantasy series into a franchise and tapped Michael Ross to write the screenplay. (VAR)
Nikki Finke Signs First-Look Deal With HBO
Deadline founder Nikki Finke has inked a first-look deal with HBO which gives the premium cabler access to the short stories published on Finke’s website Hollywood Dementia. (TB)
