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Worldwide box office October 4-6 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l)  Cume (int’l) Territories  1.  Joker: Folie À Deux (Warner Bros)  $121.m  $121.1m  $81.1m  $81.1m  77  2.  The Volunteers: To The War 2 (various)  $45.1m  $111.3m  $45.1m  $111.3m  2  3.   The Wild Robot (Universal)  $31.7m  $100.4m  $13m  $36.5m  37  4.   Tiger Wolf Rabbit (various)  $18.7m  $47.2m  $18.7m  $47.2m  1  5.   Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros)  $18.5m  $402.6m  $8.2m  $137.1m  78  6.   Panda Plan (various)  $13.8m  $27.1m  $13.8m  $27.1m  1  7.  Transformers One (Paramount)  $13.3m  $97m  $7.9m  $49.8m  62 …

The British Film Institute (BFI) says the organisation “remains committed” to the African Odysseys programme, as an online petition voicing concerns over the programme’s future reached 12,078 signatures, as of October 25. African Odysseys is a 17-year-old programme that was set up in 2007 by grassroots Black community activists who were already showing films at various London venues, with a view to give a singular home to those films, advise and help the BFI show African diaspora content and bring an underserved Black audience into the BFI Southbank, as well as offering training to young Black filmmakers. It includes a…

Warner Bros has acquired global rights to Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights, after what the studio describes as a “fierce bidding war”. The film, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, will play in cinemas worldwide through Warner Bros. Fennell has written and will direct and produce the feature adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel. MRC is financing the film, which Robbie’s LuckyChap is producing. Production dates are not yet confirmed. Run by Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, LuckyChap has a multi-year first look feature film deal with Warner Bros. The companies collaborated on last year’s mega-hit Barbie. “From the moment…

Harvey Weinstein was back in a Manhattan court on Wednesday when a judge ruled that he will face consolidated sex crimes charges in a 2025 trial. No date has been set for the case, which combines a retrial of his overturned 2020 rape conviction and new charges brought last month. Prosecutors have pushed for an April trial and a date will be set at the next court hearing on January 29, 2025. Weinstein, 72, who earlier this week was revealed to have chronic myeloid leukemia, has consistently denied all charges. In April, New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020…

FilmSharks has announced a handful of deals with blue-chip distributors led by the US and UK on a remastered 4K version of Nine Queens, the Argentinian crime thriller that launched the career of Ricardo Darin. Sony Pictures Classics has renewed its agreement for North America and is believed to be re-releasing the film soon, 22 years after it initially distributed it, while Curzon has acquired rights for the UK. In other deals, Warner Bros Discovery has acquired rights for Eastern Europe and A Contracorriente will distribute in Spain. The late Fabián Bielinsky’s Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas, 2000) stars Darin and…

Despite being slapped with a rare under-18s ban in France, Damien Leone’s horror film Terrifier 3 has not scared moviegoers away, selling 244,000 tickets (€1.75m based on an average ticket price of €7.20) during its opening weekend. The figures, based on ticket sales from October 9-13, have already far surpassed Terrifier 2’s total of 71,000 tickets (€511,000) over its five-week run in cinemas in late 2023. The film, about homicidal Art the Clown who goes on the rampage during the Christmas holidays, sparked a backlash from distributors Factoris Films, Shadowz Films and ESC Editions last week when France’s film classification…

Paramount Pictures and Temple Hill’s Smile 2 scored an estimated $23m bow to lead the North American box office in a weekend that saw a good hold by Terrifier 3, while Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora scored the highest per-screen average of 2024 so far. Smile 2 writer-director Parker Finn ­recorded his second number one debut for his horror franchise after the original opened top in 2022 on $22.6m, which will have pleased Paramount executives, who said on average horror sequels open 26% behind the original. Naomi Scott stars as a global pop icon who confronts her past after she is…

Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap has crossed £2m at the UK-Ireland box office, as of Thursday, September 26, in a strong result for distributors Wildcard and Curzon. The film has made almost £1.2m across seven weeks of release in Ireland and Northern Ireland, through Wildcard Distribution. Curzon Film is distributing the title in England, Scotland and Wales, where it has been on release for five weeks and made £806,851. The film has particularly flourished at leading UK-Ireland independent venues, with Glasgow Film Theatre, Dublin’s Light House, Watershed Bristol and London’s Curzon Soho making up the top four in order. A Sundance 2024…

Luca Guadagnino is in final talks with Lionsgate to direct a new version of American Psycho based on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 satirical novel. Scott Z. Burns, whose writing credits include The Bourne Ultimatum and Contagion, will write the screenplay to what is conceived as a new adaptation of the novel, rather than a remake of the 2000 version directed by Mary Harron from a screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner. That film starred Christian Bale as the titular character and Lionsgate distributed in North America.  In the novel, Patrick Bateman is a mentally unstable Manhattan-based banker who hails from…

Actors from Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap and Andrea Arnold’s Bird are among the 12 names on the longlist for the breakthrough performance award at the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas). JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh and Naoise Ó Cairealláin – members of Irish rap group Kneecap, who play fictionalised versions of themselves in the film of the same name – are all on the list, as are Bird actors Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. Scroll down for the full list Screen 2024 Stars of Tomorrow Saura Lightfoot Leon and Jason Patel are selected for their performances in Luna Carmoon’s Venice…