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After becoming the first studio of 2024 to hit $2 billion at the domestic box office earlier this week, Disney has now claimed a new milestone. Based on today’s estimates, the Walt Disney Studios has crossed $5 billion globally. The total worldwide estimate is $5.06 billion. Of that, $2.054 billion comes from North America and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-activist Liev Schreiber has joined the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Once Upon a Time in Ukraine as an executive producer. The short film directed by Oscar nominee Betsy West (RBG) explores how Ukrainian children cope with the devastation and terror of war – finding poignant and often surprising ways to deal with traumatic experience. Ivanna, a […]

Colleen Hoover is standing with Blake Lively after the actress filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni. The It Ends With Us author showed her support for Lively, who starred in the Baldoni-directed adaptation of her 2016 novel, with some kind words on her Instagram Story following Lively’s legal complaint filed Friday […]

Brandy Corbet’s The Brutalist from A24 hammered its way into theaters this weekend with one of the best limited openings of 2024 (no. 3 after Anora and Kinds of Kindness). It sold out nearly 30 showtimes in New York and Los Angeles for a gross of $266.8k on four screens for a per screen opening […]

Continuing the trajectory it began after world premiering in Venice, where it won the Best Screenplay prize, this past week Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here was shortlisted for an International Feature Oscar. Salles’ so-called “comeback film” is also a box office phenom in Brazil. Through Sunday, it has grossed $10.7M in the home market. It […]

Veteran actor Joe Pesci committed to the bit a little too much when he accidentally bit Macaulay Culkin’s finger while shooting the 1990 Christmastime classic Home Alone. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, star Daniel Stern — who portrays the goofier half to Pesci’s more determined robber — recalled what happened: “I totally forgot […]

The documentary features remaining in contention for an Oscar nomination have been whittled down from 169 to a shortlist of a mere 15, a brutal culling that has inevitably left many filmmakers disappointed, and a select few in celebratory mode. What were the harshest snubs? That question comes up for debate in a special Oscar-shortlist-reaction […]

Following his latest nominated performance, Timothée Chalamet is opening up about the unfortunate reality of awards season. The A Complete Unknown star, who recently secured his fourth Golden Globe nomination for playing Bob Dylan, shared his honest experience after losing the awards for his roles in Call Me By Your Name (2017), Beautiful Boy (2018) […]

EXCLUSIVE: Johanna Brinckman, Ini Ishola, and Marta Méndez Cross have been selected as Broken English Productions’ Women Director’s Initiative competition. Each winning new filmmaker receives a $30k grant to produce a short film and additional resources to bring their projects to fruition. Additionally, they will count on the participation of Jaina Lee Ortiz (Station 19, […]

James Gunn is celebrating the rollout of the trailer for Superman after releasing the preview for the DC Studios film on Thursday, December 19. The DC Studios co-head and filmmaker took to social media to thank everyone for their support. “Krypto really did take us home: With over 250 million views and a million social […]

EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Adrianne Palicki (John Wick) and John O’Hurley (Seinfeld) are leading the cast of the indie pickleball mockumentary, Pickleheads. The film’s cast also includes Pej Vahdat (The Old Man), Kristine Froseth (Sharp Stick), Eric Nelsen (1883), Ryan Cooper (Rough Night), Lindsey Morgan (The 100), Sam Humphrey (The […]

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. As the town starts to shut down for Christmas break next week, fear not: The Oscar season remains in full force as campaigners know the next two weeks leading up to the start of nomination voting is crunch time, the key period when voters will […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy’s first film after winning the Oscar for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer. Enda Walsh, the Tony Award-winning Irish playwright and director, adapted the script for the film from Claire Keegan’s 2021 […]

It remains unclear what Christopher Nolan has in store for his next event film, and star Tom Holland is certainly keeping tight-lipped. The MCU star claimed the 2x Oscar-winning director only “loosely pitched” him on the upcoming star-studded project, which is expected to film after the new year, and he still remains in the dark. […]

Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel’s live-action Masters of the Universe film has four new villains, Deadline has learned. Jared Leto (House of Gucci) is confirmed for the role of Skeletor, having initially been linked to the project back in September. Others now aboard include Sam C. Wilson (House of the Dragon) as Trap Jaw, Hafthor […]

David Ayer is pushing back on social media trolls after he expressed support for James Gunn’s Superman and the DC Universe he is creating. Days before Gunn dropped the Superman trailer, Ayer had taken to social media to talk to his followers who have been organizing a campaign to release his cut of 2016’s Suicide […]

EXCLUSIVE: After a 33-day theatrical window, filmmaker Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II is hitting digital on Dec. 24. The movie has amassed well north of $401M at the global box office. This weekend in the states alone during its fifth frame, the Paul Mescal-Denzel Washington-Pedro Pascal gladiator movie is expected to make $4.2M at 2,397 theaters […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Better Man, Paramount’s musical biopic based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. The script was penned by Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole and Michael Gracey. Gracey directs the […]