Grindstone Nabs North American Rights to Russian Box Office Hit ‘Upon the Magic Roads’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Mogwai have announced a 16-date North American headline tour for 2022, marking their first full run of shows in support of latest album ‘As The Love Continues’.The tour will kick off at the 9:30 Club in Washington on Tuesday April 5, rolling through a further 13 US and two Canadian cities before wrapping up in San Diego on Sunday April 24. Tickets will be available from 9am local time, Wednesday July 30.Mogwai’s tenth studio album, ‘As The Love Continues’, was released back in February.

Even with close to 40% of the Canadian box office offline as Ontario remains closed until late July, and the Arclight/Pacific Theatres closed in L.A., the total weekend domestic box office came in at $98.08M per Comscore’s early Sunday AM estimate. Some distributors even have the weekend higher at $99.1M.

F9 is huge!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterThe only thing stronger than family? The box office debut of “F9,” the latest entry in Universal’s “Fast & Furious” saga.After many delays over the course of a year and a half, “F9” opened to a mighty $70 million from 4,179 North American venues. That’s by far the biggest start for a movie at the U.S.

Fast & Furious 9 is set to break the pandemic-era box office record in the United States after a huge opening this weekend.The latest film in the record-breaking franchise hit cinemas worldwide this week, coming out in the UK on Thursday (June 24) and in the States the following day.According to Variety, the Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez-starring movie made $30million (£21.6m) across over 4,000 cinemas on its opening day, and is currently heading for an intake of $68m (£49m) on opening

“F9,” the ninth movie in the “Fast & Furious” franchise, has gotten off to a quick start by grossing $7.1 million from 3,100 screens for preview showings beginning at 7:00 p.m. The film will open wide at 4,179 North American theaters this weekend, which is the largest theater count since the pandemic shutdown began.Universal’s biggest blockbuster is a long time coming, being delayed from a release way back in April of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As the audience gets ready to witness the battle royal between Vin Diesel and John Cena on the big screen in the US on June 25, the box office pundits have started their predictions for Fast and Furious 9. The action-packed franchise is expected to record the biggest opening day and weekend for a feature film in the US ever since the world has been taken aback by the Covid-19 pandemic.

This fall, J. Cole will tour the United States behind his new album The Off-Season, and he's bringing along 21 Savage and Morray for most of the shows.

Ethan Shanfeld GKIDS has acquired the North American rights to “The Deer King,” the latest feature film animated by the acclaimed studio Production I.G.Directed by Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji and written by Taku Kishimoto, the movie will premiere in competition at the Annecy Film Festival this week and is slated for a theatrical release in early 2022.The sweeping fantasy epic takes place in the years following a destructive war, with the Empire of Zol controlling the land and citizens of

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” a sequel to the 2017 action comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” is gunning for the top spot on U.S. box office charts.That shouldn’t be a difficult feat, considering the Lionsgate film is this weekend’s only new nationwide release.

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to writer/director Evan Jackson Leong’s Snakehead.

Chelsea Handler is hitting the road for a tour across North America.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to the Amos Gitai Film Collection, comprising 22 films by the award-winning bold Israeli director of Cannes’ Palme d’Or contenders “Kippur,” BAFTA-winning “Kadosh,” and “Free Zone” with Natalie Portman. Gitai’s latest film, “Laila in Haifa” (pictured), which featured Israeli and Palestinian actors, world premiered at Venice in 2020.

Belle,” Hosoda Mamoru’s highly anticipated animated feature has been picked up by Gkids for release in North America.The Studio Chizu-produced coming of age tale will release in Japan next month. Gkids says it will release ‘Belle” theatrically in both its original Japanese language and an English dubbed version this winter, and will qualify the film for 2021 awards consideration.Nippon Television handles rights sales for the film in Asia.

Christopher Vourlias The coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on cinema chains across the globe, with protracted lockdowns, limited seating capacity, and delayed releases of Hollywood blockbusters sending the likes of Alamo Drafthouse into—and out of—bankruptcy and pushing giants like Cineworld and AMC to the brink.Yet for Russia’s Karo Cinemas, the past year has hardly slowed pre-pandemic growth; at the rapidly expanding cinema chain, which is among the country’s largest, it’s currently full

Marta Balaga Russia’s CTB Film Company, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, is set to follow its 2021 family adventure “Upon the Magic Roads” with two animated films, “The Nutcracker and the Magic Flute” and “My Sweet Monster.” The latter, scheduled for September release and already sold to several territories, including the U.S., Germany and France, will see a tantrum-prone teenage princess on the run, captured by the forest monster, whose peaceful existence is about to come to an

EXCLUSIVE: Devilworks, the genre sales specialist, has launched a full-service distribution label. Named New Era Entertainment, the banner will focus on North American releases, primarily for home entertainment.

Maroon 5 are about to embark on a world tour!