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UPDATE with more Thursday numbers:  Sony’s Screen Gems/Stage 6’s R-rated horror film  Don’t Breathe   drew  $1.875 million  from previews last night starting at 7 PM. That’s a great start that inches out the $1.8M earned by both last month’s  Lights Out  and  Don’t Breathe  director Fede Alvarez’s previous movie, 2013’s  Evil Dead. Evil Dead would go on to post a $25.8M opening, largely fueled by the franchise’s fervent fan base.  Don’t Breathe ‘s business will be in the spirit of such previous late August horror debuts as  Jeepers Creepers  ($13M) and Focus Features/Blumhouse’s  Sinister 2 , which posted $850K on its preview night before taking in a $10.5M FSS. Roadside Attractions’ Obamas first-date movie  Southside With You  and The Weinstein Company’s Roberto Duran biopic  Hands Of Stone , both platform releases, will not release Thursday numbers and will fo...

Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been named in an investigation by Ukrainian authorities looking at whether he and others received millions in illegal payments from Ukraine's former pro-Russian ruling party, according to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. The probe is part of a wider investigation by the bureau into allegations of corruption and influence peddling against ex-president Viktor Yanukovich's administration, for whom Manafort worked as a political consultant, before the leader's violent ouster in 2014. The investigation is looking into "shadow accounting" and potentially illegal payments made by Yanukovich to Manafort and other Ukrainian election officials, according to Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption. The announcement of the investigation follows a report published late Sunday by The New York Times, which first revealed that Ukrainian investigators had found Manafort's name included in an off-the-boo...