This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
3RD UPDATE, Friday PM Writethru following midday update: Who says January stinks at the box office?
Sony’sBad Boys for Life and Universal-Amblin-New Republic’s 1917 are poised to fly past the $100M mark this weekend, becoming 2020’s first two century-grossing titles at the domestic box office.
Bad Boys for Life…
A couple weeks after Deadline reported that Ruben Fleischer was atop the list to direct Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, and the race was on to keep the pic on track to shoot before the next installment of Holland’s Spider-Man, the studio changed the release date of the Columbia Pictures…
Megyn Kelly was right, that was fun. When the former Fox News and NBC News host announced Tuesday that she would be a first-time guest on Real Time with Bill Maher she also predicted a lively time (“Now this ought to be fun…,” she told Twitter) and she wasn’t wrong. Some highlights below.
On her time away from the…
Jennifer Aniston guest hosted The Ellen Show today while the regular star was out renewing her driver’s license. So, naturally, it was time to renew some old ties for comic effect.
Aniston, as most people in civilization know, spent 10 years working on the Warner Brothers lot for Friends, where The Ellen Show is now…
The 45th annual Humanitas Prizes honoring film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family, were handed out Friday night at the Beverly Hilton.
Motion picture winners included Searchlight Pictures’ Jojo Rabbit, the Taika Waititi written and directed war satire…
Rapper YG was arrested this morning at his Chatsworth, Calif. mansion on suspicion of robbery by Los Angleles County sheriffs.
He is scheduled to appear Sunday as part of a Grammys tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle at Sunday’s Grammys, performing with John Legend and Meek Mill, among others.
YG, whose real name is…
NBC has greenlight its fifth drama this cycle, Ordinary Joe, from House veterans Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner, The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves, his 6th & Idaho banner and 20th Century Fox TV.
Written by Friend and Lerner, Ordinary Joe explores the three parallel lives of the show's main character after he…
Director Guy Ritchie certainly has one of the more uneven movie careers. Starting with his gritty and funny indie British crime movies from the late 90s like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he then kind of lost his way with some bloated major studio efforts: Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, both…
Deadline's studio at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicked off Day 1 at Hotel Park City by hosting fest-goers such as Aubrey Plaza of Black Bear, Ron Howard of Rebuilding Paradise, Sasheer Zamata of Spree and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.
Stay tuned for more photo galleries and video…
Marvel is not moving forward with its Hulu animated series Howard the Duck and Tigra & Dazzler, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Deadline. That leaves two Marvel animated series remaining at Hulu, Hit Monkey and M.O.D.O.K.. along with the live-action Helstrom.
All projects originated at Marvel…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
Just a little more than two weeks to go until the big night on February 9, and a key moment will happen Saturday when the winner of the all-too-Oscar-predictive DGA Award will be announced at the Ritz Carlton in downtown Los Angeles. If it is Sam…
The Oscars arrive in just over two weeks, which means street closings, adjusted train schedules, extra tourists and traffic nightmares in Hollywood near the Dolby Theatre and Hollywood & Highland Center.
As part of that, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
