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Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 37th episode of its video series Take Two, in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hoped for when we as…

SUNDAY AM Writethru after Saturday PM update w/chart: Unlike other genre films during this lackluster time at the box office, Paramount’s Smile isn’t even beginning to frown this weekend. Paramount officially reports this morning, after we heard last night that the Parker Finn directed/written horror pic…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Some good word of mouth has prompted Disney/20th Century Studios/New Regency’s Barbarian to come in higher than anticipated at $10M; ditto for the their Star Studios’ Brahmastra Part One: Shiva which is at the high end of its estimates at $4.4M in the No. 2 spot. Disney will report their official…

The Story of Film: A New Generation opens at two dozen theaters this weekend — Laemmle Royal in LA, Museum of the Moving Image in NY, Music Box Theatre in Chicago and Brattle in Cambridge. It’s a mix of arthouses, cinematheques, museums and even a few multiplexes for Mark Cousins’ follow-up to his 15-hour, 2011 opus Th…