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DreamWorks and Fox’s The Boss Baby put March monster Beauty and the Beast in the pram this weekend with a big boy $49 million domestic debut. An all star vocal cast made of Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Kimmel, Tobey Maguire, Lisa Kudrow and Steve Buscemi brought this adorable little adventure to life under the direction of Madagascar series helmer Tom McGrath.

We want to be among the first to wish a very happy 95th birthday to Doris Day, actress, singer, Hollywood legend - and, with 11 nominations, five wins and a Cecil B. deMille award, an integral part of the very history of the Golden Globes.

She met Martin Scorsese at a 6-week class at New York University decades ago, and using the experience she gained adapting Fellini, Godard and Truffaut films for American broadcast, she helped him to rescue a short film he was working on. When Scorsese directed his first feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door, he called her to be her editor and from Raging Bull on, she has been the only one entrusted by the master filmmaker to finish his films.

CinemaCon’s last day and the delegates were woken right up at the start of the Fox presentation by iLuminate dancers dressed in black and white top hat and tails. Their costumes were covered with LED and electroluminescent wires that lit up in synchrony as they danced in the dark to the tune of ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business.

A Golden Globe nominee for her sensational performance in the musical Chicago  (and  the drama Traffic) Catherina Zeta-Jones is now on Feud: Bette and Joan, the latest hit by Ryan Murpy. She’s a music aficionada, who shares her passion with the family.

Day 3 and some 6,000 delegates packed into Caesar Palace’s Colosseum to see Universal’s presentation, again early in the morning.   Some of them must have even got up for breakfast or the two seminars already concluded by 9.

The timetable for the 75th Golden Globe Awards  has been announced. With the Golden Globes being presented on January 7, 2018, key dates have been established accordingly.

It’s Day 2 at CinemaCon and at the crack of dawn (which in Las Vegas is 9. 30 am )I present myself at the seminar entitled “The State of the Industry: Past, Present and Future.

The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO, if you please) kicked off its 7th annual convention of cinema owners today at the Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Members of the trade association control over 32,000 cinema screens in all 50 states and 81 countries overseas, and more than 5,000 of them are in attendance.

Shaking off several new challengers Beauty and the Beast cut down Power Rangers, laughed off Chips, and smothered Life, taking $88 million in its second week in US theatres. Disney’s live action reimagining of its 1991 animated classic reached $690 million worldwide after a $119.