‘Fury’ Takes Top Box Office Spot, Stephen Collins Might Not Be Prosecuted, Fox Shaves ‘Mulaney’ Show Order

Brad Pitt’s ‘Fury’ Takes Its Wrath on the Box Office 

WWII tank thriller makes $23.5 million to slip past Gone Girl and Book of Life. (SSN)

Stephen Collins Might Not Be Prosecuted, After All

Both the LAPD and NYPD are hampered by statute of limitations in investigation of 7th Heaven star. (VUL)

Fox Might Have Had Enough of ‘Mulaney’

Sitcom starring standup comic has had its show order cut from 16 episodes to 13, though the show will continue to air in its normal time slot on Sunday nights. (THR)

Turner Reports Major Losses, With a $400 Million Write Down in Programming Costs

Along those lines, a top programming exec is no longer in the running to head up TBS and TNT. (TVW)

Bryan Singer Apparently Wants Tom Hardy to Play the Title Villain in ‘X-Men: Age of Apocalypse’

Dark Knight Rises star is also wanted for Warner’s Suicide Squad, will appear as Mad Max in 2015’s Fury Road. (SR)

‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Is Going to Great Lengths to Make The Hulk a Realistic as Possible

Director Joss Whedon is working with brand new motion capture performance system Muse to properly render Mark Ruffalo’s work. (CB)

A Year Before He Hopes to Start Shooting ‘Pacific Rim 2,’ Guillermo Del Toro Is Already Planning for ‘Pacific Rim 3’

With an animated series already in the works to link the first film to the second, which is due in theaters April 7, 2017, the director is thinking big. (COL)

Disney Is Getting Out in Front of the Oscar Race, Animated Short Division

The short, in front of November’s Big 6, is done by last year’s nominee for Get a Horse!, Patrick Osbourne, who previously won for Paperman. (TOH)

Screenwriters: High Concept Screenwriting Defined

The common belief is that it's any movie that can be pitched in one sentence. A man who battles his wife for custody of their children is one sentence, but it's a million miles from being High Concept. (MO)