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Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine delivered $54.2m in its third weekend as the newly crowned $1bn global smash surged to $494.3m in North America, staying top ahead of a spectacular $50m debut for Sony’s romantic drama It Ends With Us. It was a great weekend for the Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively household that maintained an encouraging summer season and for the first time saw two films earn $50m or more in the same weekend in the traditionally slow month of August. Studios will confirm numbers on Monday. Active in 4,330 locations, Deadpool & Wolverine overtook Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on $454m…

Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine held on to top spot in its second weekend in North America as an estimated $97m boosted the running total to $395.6m and overtook The Passion Of The Christ on $371m to become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Playing in 4,230 theatres, the summer smash starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman dropped 53% – a solid hold for a tentpole targeted at a typically front-loaded cinema-going culture – and scored the eighth highest second weekend of all time, and the fifth second highest weekend of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Deadpool & Wolverine earned…

Uncertainty surrounds the future of Todd Haynes’s untitled gay romance after it emerged that Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix reportedly exited days before the start of production in Mexico. Haynes and regular producers Killer Films had lined up a Guadalajara shoot on the 1930s-set story about two men who fall in love and leave California for Mexico.  According to a report on Indiewire, Phoenix was in California when he pulled out days before cameras were ready to roll. Danny Ramirez from Top Gun: Maverick has been cast as the love interest. Phoenix’s reason for departing Haynes’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated May December remains unclear.…

JULY 27 UPDATE: Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine has grossed an estimated $211.1m at the global box office through the end of Friday, powered by a $96m opening day in North America including Thursday previews and $115.1m from international markets. Disney executives said on Saturday morning that the North American tally keeps the superhero tentpole on track for an opening weekend in the $195m-$205m range, which would rank among the top 10 openings of all time. After the first three days of international activity, the Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman showpiece – which screened to Comic-Con attendees on Thursday night with the leads, co-star…

As far-right riots and civil unrest continue to spread across the UK, numerous cinemas have been impacted by forced closures, increased safety precautions, and distressed staff and customers alike. On Saturday (August 3), when riots broke out in over 20 UK towns and cities, several cinemas shut their doors out of safety concerns including Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, Derby Quad and Odeon Liverpool One. At the latter, there were reports of the cinema locking down its venue earlier in the day, with customers still inside due to disruptions. (Odeon declined Screen’s request for comment.) In Birmingham, Mockingbird Cinema has decided to…

France’s CNC has introduced a series of reforms to boost distribution of arthouse cinema in the country that will roll out over the next two years. Scroll down for the top 10 arthouse releases in France in 2024 The annual budget for what is known in France as “le cinéma art et essai” has been set at €19m for 2024, up €1m from the previous year. The increased funding is meant to better reward exhibitors who give what they call “fragile arthouse films a chance” and support the marketing of arthouse titles especially to the younger 15-25 age demographic. The…

Bafta has unveiled its most significant suite of rulebook changes since its 2021awards voting overhaul, with key alterations including the paring back of jury interventions, the introduction of a children’s and family film award, and eligibility for the outstanding British film category being tightened up through a new points system. “We did the review four years ago, there were 124 interventions,” said Emma Baehr, Bafta’s executive director of awards and content. ”We’ve looked at four years of data, across membership, voting and engagement, and that’s allowed us to think about how the long-term measures in place are working well. “We phased out…

Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine has soared past the half-billon dollar mark at the global box office after seven days and stood at $545.8m through the end of Tuesday. The tentpole added $49.6m overall, including $25.3m in North America for a $261.1m running total. The single-day haul registered the highest ever gross by an R-rated film on a Tuesday, the third highest Tuesday of all time in July excluding opening days, and the 13th biggest Tuesday for any time of year. International markets produced $24.3m resulting in a $284.7m running total that should see the Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman buddy movie cross…