As my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024.
As my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024.
Dumb Money producer Aaron Ryder talked Saturday about why he wanted to bring to screen the story of GameStop’s short squeeze of 2021, a financial fluke that has gone down in history as a triumph for the little guy against the behemoths of Wall Street.
Digital and social media marketing chiefs of major studios said today they’re really hoping the threat of a U.S. government ban on Tiktok never materializes, so crucial has the platform become to launching films. They’d also like Elon Musk-owned Twitter to get itself together, since that’s also a key platform for Hollywood.
Welcome back, Insiders. Jesse Whittock here. Christmas is just around the corner now but the news doesn’t let up. Let’s begin.
Christian Bale is not your typical GQ coverboy, but that’s exactly where he’s landed this month, in part because he cares about his newest collaboration with David O. Russell, Amsterdam, on which Bale is also a producer.
Jeff Goldblum is the executive producer and host of The World According to Jeff Goldblum from National Geographic and Disney+. He joined Deadline for its Contenders Television: The Nominees panel and talked about how each season is mapped out — and he also teases what he hopes to see in a possible Season 3.
EXCLUSIVE: Ellen won’t be growing up on HBO Max.
Nellie Andreeva and Anthony D’Alessandro contributed to this report.
Sound & Screen, Deadline’s inaugural live concert showcasing the composers, music supervisors and songwriters behind the music of television’s buzziest shows, has set the lineup for its in-person event May 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Exhibition ruled the stock market today after a long holiday weekend saw Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II crush it, earning $57 million over four days. That’s not far from the $60 million that the John Krasinski-directed sequel was anticipated to do in its 3-day opening pre-pandemic, according to my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro.
We may not be in Park City this year, but Deadline is hitting the digital deck with the opening of the semi-virtual Sundance Film Festival today.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNeil Patrick Harris will be joining in on the fun with Lionsgate’s Nicolas Cage action satire The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The Emmy and Tony winning actor will star alongside Cage, who plays himself, as well as already announced cast Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish and Sharon Horgan.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal’s domestic release of Simon King’s directorial The 355 is jumping from its MLK 2021 weekend release to MLK weekend Jan. 14, 2022.While Universal has committed a number of fresh wide releases during the pandemic to exhibition during Q4, i.e.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNetflix reports that its limited series The Queen’s Gambit has scored 62M households, becoming their most watched limited series to date in its first 28 days. The series starring Anya Taylor-Joy has been consumed Russia and Hong Kong, to France, Taiwan and Australia.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSUNDAY AM UPDATE, refresh for chart and more analysis: The weekend before Thanksgiving is one of the most lucrative ones on the calendar, last year bringing in $204.9M off the opening of Disney’s Frozen II which posted November’s fifth best domestic opening of all-time at $130.3M.Who would ever think that the domestic box office would sink to such an atrocious level as this weekend.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorTrammell Crow Company (TCC) and Clarion Partners, LLC announced today that LA North Studios, one of Santa Clarita’s newest and largest sound stage facility and studio operators, has signed a five-year lease to take over 113,640 square feet at Building 5 at The Center at Needham Ranch.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has teamed with award-winning, record-setting country music duo Florida Georgia Line, made up of Tyler Hubbard and Brian “BK” Kelley, and award-winning director TK McKamy to produce an Untitled Country Musical feature film.Monarch principals Steve Barnett and Alan Powell will produce. Hubbard and Kelley will executive produce along with Monarch principal Vicky Patel. McKamy will produce in some capacity and has
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOverbrook Entertainment executive Clarence Hammond is joining Paramount Players as SVP of Production reporting to Paramount Players President Jeremy Kramer. Hammond starts on Nov.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal has just inked another multi-year shortened theatrical window/PVOD share deal, this time with Canada’s biggest exhibitor, Cineplex.The deal comes on the heels of Uni’s recent pact with No. 3 U.S.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAmazon will release their acquisition of Paramount Pictures’ Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America on March 5, 2021. The movie was originally slated for a Dec.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBad Robot has expanded its film and television production team and has appointed Chrysta Burton as EVP of Physical Production and Diane Coote as its VP, of Physical Production. They join current Bad Robot executive Josh Tate who serves as VP of Physical Production.The trio will now handle all film and television productions for the label, with Burton overseeing projects from development through post-production.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that French filmmaker Alexandre Aja is set to direct the horror feature Elijah for Searchlight Pictures as the newly owned Disney label continues a streak with genre fare following last year’s Ready or Not and Scott Cooper and Guillermo del Toro’s Antlers.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: A year ago at this time, a stink was raised by the studios and NATO over Netflix and its audacity to actually crunch the theatrical window with The Irishman. And a deal was on the table with AMC, but in the end the streamer wanted a more limited time in theaters ( far less than 45 days).Fast forward to now, and many wonder, well, what happens to Amazon and Netflix now with the WarnerMedia HBO Max theatrical day and date release
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: The sports content studio, Game1 and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s production label West2East Empire are developing Braddock based on Greg Nichols book Striking Gridiron about the 1959 Braddock High School football team.At the time when Pennsylvania found itself in the throes of a crippling steel strike, the Braddock High School football team provided hope to a small downtrodden steel town with their remarkable
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAMC’s Adam Aron isn’t the only one who is happy about WarnerMedia’s decision’s to take Wonder Woman 1984 theatrical day and date on HBO Max. This morning the Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA), which reps North America indie movie theatre owners, exclaimed their support to the Burbank, CA studio and its plans to keep the Gal Gadot-Kristen Wiig-Chris Pine movie on the release schedule on Dec.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAdam Aron, CEO and President of AMC Entertainment, issued this statement about the showing of Wonder Woman 1984 at AMC’s nearly 1,000 theatres in the U.S.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorI’m hearing from several exhibition sources that Warner Bros. is going with Wonder Woman 1984 on Christmas Day in theaters and on HBO Max, same day.
Anthony D'Alessandro, Patrick Hipes Orion Pictures has set its first feature film project since its relaunch, securing Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter to direct What If?, a high school coming-of-age drama penned by Alvaro García Lecuona.Pic, billed as a cross between coming-of-age features Booksmart and Love Simon, follows high school senior KHAL who posts on r/relationships about his crush on Kelsa, a trans girl at his school.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorLast Friday, the prayers of several Star Wars fans were heard as Katee Sackhoff made her live-action debut as Bo-Katan Kryze on Disney+’s The Mandalorian, a character she voiced for eight years on the series animated predecessors Clone Wars and Rebels series.And Bo-Katan made it clear about her mission going forward: She wants to reclaim that darksaber that fell into the hands of Imperial baddie Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito), a weapon
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners have inked Indian actor Adarsh Gourav, who stars in the upcoming Netflix movie White Tiger opposite Priyanka Chopra Jones.In the movie directed by Ramjn Bahrani, Gourav plays Balram, a poor driver who yearns to break free from servitude to his rich masters and rise to the top of the heap (watch the trailer below).Gourav was born in the steel city of Jamshedpur and spent his formative
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall’s Rh Negative production company has signed a six-picture slate with ViacomCBS.Under the pact, the Girls Trip and The Hate U Give actress will executive produce six movies-of-the-week for the Paramount Network or other ViacomCBS-owned brands. Three of these she will executive produce with Jesse Collins Entertainment.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn are starring in the upcoming sci-fi comedy drama feature Linoleum which recently wrapped production in New York under COVID-19 safety guidelines.The film, written and directed by Colin West, is about the host of a failing children’s science TV show who attempts to fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, all the while connecting surreal clues that
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Cameras are already rolling in Northern Rivers, Australia on Seriously Red, the musical dramedy that reps the first feature from Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: It’s been said that some movies aren’t necessarily born, rather they fight their way to life.A lot of that responsibility falls on the shoulders of a film’s producer, who well after the cameras have turned off, and the set striked, sees a movie through to its endgame.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIt should come as no surprise to hear that Cinemark and Universal have hammered out their own truncated theatrical window and PVOD share deal in the wake of the one which AMC inked with the Hollywood major studio at the end of July. Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi, a former President at the Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, understands the studio side of the balance sheet, and has been more flexible about creating a dynamic widow than No.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has landed the rights to New York Times bestselling author, Grady Hendrix’s forthcoming horror novel, The Final Girl Support Group and are adapting the book as a series.Co-creators of ABC’s The Fix, Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, are set to pen the adaptation.
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