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Home came in seance with $19 million, which gives it just shy of $130 million in the 17 days since its release.
The Longest Ride came in third, opening with $13 million, with
Get Hard sinking to fourth with $8.64 million, while
Cinderella rounded out the top five.
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The network has put in development
Aftermath, a limited event series from
The Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson and feature writing duo Ryan Belenzon and Jeffrey Gelber. Written/executive produced by Belenzon and Gelber,
Aftermath is set in the wake of a worldwide flu pandemic. A former CDC virologist is forced to investigate the strange pathogenic suicide of a John Doe, who might hold the key to stopping a high-level government conspiracy.
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The former Sony president of production is getting back into the producing game full time after he oversaw the monster
Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation. His first-look deal with Universal follows a successful run at Sony, which included upcoming films like Ron Howard’s
Inferno,
The Magnificent Seven remake,
Passengers with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, and Paul Feig’s
Ghostbusters reboot.
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Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that Marvel and Sony will put the character back in high school, and he will be 15 or 16 years old. There had been speculation that the new Spider-Man might be the African-American Miles Morales, but Feige made it clear that Peter Parker is going to be the character in question. No word yet on casting.
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Clooney and his partner, Grant Heslov, nabbed the rights to the non-fiction book, which follows the FBI’s leading body language expert, Navarro, who was sent to track down Rod Ramsey to report on his knowledge or association with Clyde Lee Conrad, an U.S. Army officer who sold top-secret classified information to the People’s Republic of Hungary. It documents Navarro and Ramsey’s relationship and interviews against the backdrop of the Cold War.
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With the second
Pitch Perfect set to open next month, Universal is already getting the ball rolling on a third film in the unexpected franchise. No word yet on whether the star of the first two films, Anna Kendrick, will return, or if director Elizabeth Banks will be back, but the expectation is that Hallee Steinfeld, who was cast in the second film to carry the franchise forward, will do so with the third.
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The Oscar winner is the frontrunner to lead the studio’s
Harry Potter spinoff. J.K. Rowling is penning the script herself for this story, set in New York 70 years before Harry even comes into the picture, and focusing on Newt Scamander, a “magiczoologist.” Four more major roles — two women, two men — also need to be filled for the movie that will helmed by
Potter veteran David Yates. The movie is set to hit cinemas on November 18th, 2016.
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Kurt Russell and Dylan O’Brien have signed on to join Mark Wahlberg and Gina Rodriguez in the movie, about the 2010 BP oil platform explosion that led to oil being spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. Peter Berg is directing the film, which is going into production in the next few weeks.
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The first look at HBO’s new comedy series, starring Dwayne Johnson as a former football star. The 10-episode series premieres June 21st.
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