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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has yanked a raft of international originals from its service along with several big-ticket acquired series. Numerous English-language originals disappeared overnight last week. The U.S. conglom’s strategy shift to favoring its Hollywood-style content, and wider cost-savings…

As we come off a swampy August, don’t expect any box office perks from the Labor Day weekend holiday. Typically the final weekend of summer is home to horror fare — the frame’s record opener being 2007’s Halloween reboot at $30.6M — but distributors ignored the opportunity to program the genre this year. Instead, the…

6TH UPDATE, Monday 2:05PM with final B.O. chart: Following 8:35AM post. Sony/AFFIRM’s Kendrick Brothers’ War Room came in higher at $11.4M, thanks to a better-than-anticipated hold on Sunday of $3.4M which reps a -12% dip from Saturday’s $3.87M. As is standard with faith-based titles, its target audience heads to…

Newcomers this weekend are performing as expected in what is anticipated to be a weak, end-of-summer three-day. Three new films are competing for moviegoers in the final weekend before Labor Day, and the faith-based War Room from Fireproof director Alex Kendrick is leading the new entries so far to pull in (as it…

The Weinstein Company’s Owen Wilson-Pierce Brosnan action thriller No Escape got ahead of the weekend competition with $1.2M Wednesday at 3,007 theaters. That made it No. 2 for the day behind Universal/Legendary’s Straight Outta Compton, which remained fixed in first with an estimated $2.08M and a running cume of…

In previous years, a Zac Efron title and an Owen Wilson-Pierce Brosnan combo would have moved the needle at the box office. But these are the dog days of August, and if you think last weekend was slow, you might enjoy the luxury of being the only person in the theater if you head out to a matinee on Friday. That’s…

The new action thriller No Escape might lack credibility, but it contains such insane intensity and heart-pounding action that it takes your breath away. It doesn’t let up for a minute. Owen Wilson might not pop to mind on the list of top action stars, but he is just right for this role of a husband and father who…

Just as his Wedding Crashers co-star Vince Vaughn is segueing to more serious fare with the second season of HBO’s True Detective, Owen Wilson is making another go in the action realm with the Weinstein Company’s Labor Day opener No Escape, his first serious bullets-and-chase feature, sans comedy, since 2001’s Behind E…