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San Andreas has taken the US box office by storm, claiming $53m in its opening weekend.

Brad Peyton’s disaster movie, which stars Dwayne Johnson, knocks George Clooney’s Tomorrowland off top spot.

Elsewhere, Rebel Wilson’s Pitch Perfect 2 stays at two with $14.38m, Tomorrowland is down to three with $13.8m and Mad Max: Fury Road is at four with $13.6m.

Avengers: Age of Ultron stays at five, while Bradley Cooper’s Aloha is new in at six with $10m.

Horror remake Poltergeist is at seven with $7.8m and Far From The Madding Crowd is at eight with $1.4m.

Reese Witherspoon’s Hot Pursuit is at nine with $1.37m, while Home rounds out the top ten with $1.15m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for May 29-31 is as follows:
1. (-) San Andreas – $53,215,000
2. (2) Pitch Perfect 2 – $14,381,000
3. (1) Tomorrowland – $13,803,000
4. (3) Mad Max: Fury Road – $13,625,000
5. (5) Avengers: Age of Ultron – $10,920,000
6. (-) Aloha – $10,000,000
7. (4) Poltergeist– $7,800,000
8. (7) Far From The Madding Crowd – $1,420,000
9. (9) Hot Pursuit – $1,370,000
10. (7) Home – $1,150,000

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It looks like it’s the end of the line for the Tron franchise – Disney has decided against moving ahead with the third instalment of the sci-fi series.

The news comes after it was revealed that Tron: Legacy stars Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, along with director Joseph Kosinski, were set to reprise their roles for the new film.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, preparations for filming were already underway in Vancouver before Disney pulled the plug on the project.

The company is reported to want to instead focus on the live adaptation of its animated classics, including the Emma Watson and Dan Stevens version of Beauty and the Beast, following the success of recent hits Cinderella and Maleficent.

2010’s Tron: Legacy brought the franchise to a whole new generation of fans, following 28 years after Jeff Bridges’ cult classic, taking in nearly $400 million worldwide and spawning the animated series Tron: Uprising, which aired from 2012 to 2013 on Disney XD.

The cancellation comes after Disney’s most recent sci-fi film Tomorrowland underperformed at the US box office last weekend.

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After a commitment in September 2014, the series was officially picked up by CBS earlier this month. The pilot was scheduled to debut in November, but those plans have now massively unraveled after the episode leaked online, six months earlier than its planned debut.

Two ‘Scene’ release groups – DiMENSiON and LOL – competed to premiere the title first this morning, with the latter beating the former by around 90 seconds. LOL’s version is a convenient 400mb so likely to become the most sought after copy. On the other hand DiMENSiON’s is more than 15 times the size, but for 1080p connoisseurs it’ll be worth the wait.

Although it’s certainly possible that the pilot contains hidden watermarks, as far as visible identifiers go the 46 minute episode looks very clean. As illustrated by the image below, there are no tell-tale ‘property of’ warnings that are regularly seen on ‘screener’ copies of leaked movies.

The leak of the pilot came as a complete surprise a couple of hours ago so download stats on BitTorrent sites are a currently quite modest 25,000 or so. However, given the anticipated media snowball effect during the day the number of downloads is likely to increase dramatically, probably to more than a million by this time tomorrow.

The Supergirl leak comes just weeks after the first four episodes of the new series of Game of Thrones leaked online. That event triggered a piracy crazy that continues to this day.

Whether more episodes of Supergirl will leak online in the days to come is unknown but in any event it seems likely that CBS will try to stem the current tide. The company is a prolific sender of DMCA takedown notices and regularly sends more than 100,000 each week to Google alone.

Source: TorrentFreak

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Pitch Perfect 2 has fended off competition from Mad Max: Fury Road to claim the US Box Office.

The Rebel Wilson musical comedy took over $70.3m in its opening weekend, while Tom Hardy’s action sequel entered at number two with $44.4m.

Elsewhere, last week’s number one Avengers: Age of Ultron is down to three with $38.8 and Hot Pursuit is at four with $5.7m.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 stays at five, while Furious 7 is at six with $3.6m.

The Age of Adaline is at seven with $3.2m and Disney’s Home is at eight with $2.7m.

Ex Machina is at nine, while Thomas Hardy adaptation Far From the Madding Crowd rounds out the top ten with $1.3m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for May 15-16 is as follows:
1. (-) Pitch Perfect 2 – $70,300,000
2. (-) Mad Max: Fury Road – $44,440,000
3. (1) Avengers: Age of Ultron – $38,837,000
4. (2) Hot Pursuit – $5,780,000
5. (5) Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – $3,600,000
6. (4) Furious 7 – $3,600,000
7. (3) The Age of Adaline – $3,200,000
8. (7) Home – $2,700,000
9. (6) Ex Machina – $2,103,000
10. (15) Far From the Maddin Crowd – $1,300,000

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Legends of Tomorrow will bring together heroes including The Atom (Brandon Routh) and Firestorm (Victor Garber) from both of its DC Comics shows beginning in January.

New additions to the series include Arthur Darvill as time traveller Rip Hunter, Ciara Renée as Hawkgirl and Franz Drameh as auto mechanic-turned-hero Jay Jackson.

Legends of Tomorrow brings back Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as Rogues members Captain Cold and Heat Wave as well, while Arrow‘s Caity Lotz returns as the White Canary.

The Upfronts clip also reveals that Legends of Tomorrow‘s main villain will be Vandal Savage, an enemy of the Justice League in DC Comics dating back to 1944.

Other newsworthy elements from the teaser include footage of the deceased Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) being brought back to life in Ra’s al Ghul’s Lazarus Pit, and The Atom demonstrating his shrinking ability for the first time.

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CBS has unveiled its primetime schedule for the 2015-16 season, including Supergirl, The Big Bang Theory and NCIS.

The network’s highly-anticipated drama Supergirl will air on Monday nights at 8pm ET from November. This means it will go directly up against Fox’s fellow DC series Gotham.

The Big Bang Theory will temporarily shift to Mondays at 8pm along with new comedy Life in Pieces at 8.30pm. After Thursday Night Football ends in the autumn both shows will move back to Thursdays and leave room for Supergirl.

Scorpion will air at 9pm on Mondays, followed by NCIS: Los Angeles at 10pm.

NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans will be the Tuesday night lead-ins for new drama Limitless, which will air at 10pm.

On Wednesdays, Survivor and Criminal Minds will be followed by new series Code Black at 10pm.

Thursday’s comedy schedule will be completed by Mom at 9pm, followed by new sitcom Angel from Hell at 9.30pm. Elementary continues at 10pm.

The Amazing Race, Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods stay on Friday nights, while The Good Wife and CSI: Cyber will air on Sundays.

Several shows including Person of Interest will return midseason, with CBS expected to announce a full 12-month schedule later this year.

CBS has also confirmed that CSI will come to an end with a two-hour finale movie on September 27.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron has retained the US box office after taking $77m in its second weekend.

The sequel – which has now taken a total of $264m – becomes the second highest opener of all time after its opening last week.

Elsewhere, Reese Witherspoon’s Hot Pursuit is new in at two with $13.3m and The Age of Adaline is at three with $5.6m.

Furious 7 is at four with $5.2m and comedy sequel Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 rounds out the top five with $5.1m.

Ex Machina is up one to six with $3.4m, Disney’s Home is up to five with $3m and Women in Gold is up to eight with $1.6m.

Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella is at nine with $1.5m, while horror Unfriended is at ten with $1.4m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for May 8-10 is as follows:
1. (1) Avengers: Age of Ultron – $77,203,000
2. (-) Hot Pursuit – $13,300,000
3. (3) The Age of Adaline – $5,600,000
4. (2) Furious 7 – $5,272,000
5. (4) Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – $5,190,000
6. (7) Ex Machina – $3,470,000
7. (5) Home – $3,000,000
8. (10) Woman in Gold – $1,652,000
9. (6) Cinderella – $1,574,000
10. (8) Unfriended – $1,412,000

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NBC has revealed exactly where Heroes Reborn will fit into the network’s fall schedule.

The new Heroes season will air on Thursdays at 8pm, and will be followed by The Blacklist at 9pm.

Original creator Tim Kring’s latest project will see a new bunch of allies with unique abilities “unlocking the mysterious fate of the universe and their place within it”.

Both new and original cast members feature in the project, with Jack Coleman’s Noah Bennett making a return alongside Masi Oka’s Hiro Nakamura and Jimmy Jean-Louis as The Haitian.

New faces include Chuck‘s Zachary Levi, Gatlin Green and Ryan Guzman, with Pruitt Taylor Vince and Eve Harlow also appearing.

Original series actor Milo Ventimiglia recently warned Heroes fans that they “may not be completely satiated” by its spinoff.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron has topped the US Box Office after taking $187m in a massive opening weekend.

The sequel becomes the second highest opener of all time, beaten only by the first Avengers film.

Elsewhere, Blake Lively’s The Age of Adaline is up one place to two with $6.2m and last week’s number one Furious 7 is down to three with $6m.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is at four with $5.5m, while Home rounds out the top five with $3.3m.

Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella is at six with $2.3, Ex Machina is down to seven and horror Unfriended is down three to eight with $1.9m.

The Longest Ride is at nine, while Woman In Gold is at ten with $1.6m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for May 3-5 is as follows:
1. (-) Avengers: Age of Ultron – $187,656,000
2. (3) The Age of Adaline – $6,250,000
3. (1) Furious 7 – $6,114,000
4. (2) Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – $5,550,000
5. (4) Home – $3,300,000
6. (12) Cinderella – $2,357,000
7. (6) Ex Machina – $2,231,000
8. (5) Unfriended – $1,988,000
9. (7) The Longest Ride – $1,700,000
10. (10) Woman In Gold – $1,681,000

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