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Previous record holder was last year’s
Captain America: The Winter Solider, with just over $95 million, which is a 51 percent gain. DreamWorks Animation’s
Home came in a distant second with $27.4 million, while
Get Hard came in third with $12.93 million and
Cinderella was fourth with $10.29 mil, giving it more than $167 million since it opened.
Insurgent rounded out the top five, with an even $10 million.
(BO)
The online streaming service has ordered eight hour-long episodes of
Montauk, which is set in 1980 Montauk, Long Island, where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl. The show is from Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer and exec-produced by Shawn Levy.
(SF)
Warner Bros. reportedly wants the duo behind
The LEGO Movie and both
21 Jump Street and
22 Jump Street to helm its upcoming
The Flash movie, while Sony still wants the pair to take on one of its
Ghostbusters films. Ezra Miller has already been cast as The Flash in the Warner film, while the additional
Ghostbusters film — the companion to Paul Feig’s all-female version — has not been cast.
(CB)
The legendary director announced via Twitter over the weekend that he will not be taking part in the highly anticipated reboot of the cult classic because “not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done.” The network, however, has responded that it is still trying to negotiate and that it continues to “hold out hope that we can bring it back in all its glory with both of its extraordinary creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, at its helm.”
(DH)
After decades in court, the parties involved in the battle over the rights to
Raging Bull have figured out a way to hang up their gloves. On Friday, a federal judge was informed that a settlement had been reached. Paula Petrella, whose father, Frank Petrella, wrote works that became the basis of the 1980 film about the real-life boxer, had sued MGM and 20th Century Fox for copyright infringement over the continued distribution of the motion picture.
(THR)
Writer-director James Gunn announced that the sequel will start shooting in Atlanta at the Pinewood Studios in February of 2016, becoming the latest Marvel movie to shoot there, following on the footsteps of
Ant-Man and this spring’s
Captain America: Civil War.
(COL)
With a little more than a month to go before the broadcast TV networks reveal their 2015-16 prime time schedules, the fate of a few dozen scripted series remains up in the air. Odds are, at least one of your very favorite shows won't live to see the fall, and without putting too fine a point on it, you -- yes, you -- are largely to blame.
(AA)
The new trailer for the upcoming HBO movie about blues singer Bessie Smith, starring Queen Latifah. Also in the cast is Michael Kenneth Williams, Khandi Alexander, Mike Epps, Tory Kittles, Tika Sumpter, Oliver Platt, Bryan Greenberg, and Charles S. Dutton. Dee Rees directs the movie, which premieres May 16th.
(TP)
The haunting first trailer from the upcoming documentary about the late singer Amy Winehouse. The documentary from A24 chronicles Winehouse’s life and career, and features unseen archival footage and unheard tracks. The film hits theaters in the U.K. in July on the anniversary of Winehouse’s death. A date for the U.S. release has yet to be set.
(VAR)
Writing is like cooking: A top chef can instruct you on how to make their master dish, but what you create will never taste like theirs. Ever. And guess what? It shouldn’t. If it does taste exactly like theirs, then you failed. Copying is not creating.
(SM)
