‘The Last of the Mohicans’: BBC and Playground Developing a Series!!!

According to Variety, the BBC is teaming with Playground, the company behind Wolf Hall, The Spanish Princess and Howards End, for an ongoing series adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, which includes the 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. The five Leatherstocking Tales novels take place between 1740 and 1804 and chronicle the lives of the Native Americans and white pioneers on the … Continue reading ‘The Last of the Mohicans’: BBC and Playground Developing a Series!!!

‘Don’t Breathe’ Opens Big With $26M, While ‘Mechanic’, ‘Southside’ and ‘Hands’ Do Modestly At The BO!!

Led by a fantastic opening for Screen Gems‘ new thriller Don’t Breathe, this weekend over performed expectations with the top twelve delivering a 43.5% improvement over the same weekend last year, just barely coming up shy of a combined $100 million. Along with the stellar opening for Don’t Breathe, Mechanic: Resurrection had a solid opening for Lionsgate & Co., the moderate release of Southside with You performed well, the expansion of Hell or … Continue reading ‘Don’t Breathe’ Opens Big With $26M, While ‘Mechanic’, ‘Southside’ and ‘Hands’ Do Modestly At The BO!!