Anthony covers box office, breaking film news, awards-season features and festival news. His first job in the film industry was at Savoy Pictures' headquarters in New York where he worked in film distribution. In the summer of 1999, he was hired by Variety and moved to Los Angeles, and remained in the newsroom covering numerous parts of the industry, including box office, for about a decade. Prior to arriving at Deadline in the fall of 2011, where he co-edited the site's sister publication Awardsline, Anthony covered the box office beat for Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood. He also co-produced Matt Walsh's film "A Better You."
Ukonwa Ojo, who arrived at Amazon Studios and Prime Video close to two years ago as Chief Marketing Officer, is exiting.
In a memo to staff Tuesday about Ojo’s departure, Mike Hopkins, SVP Prime Video & Amazon Studios, wrote that he’s “reaching out to senior marketing team members in the coming days on how we best…
EXCLUSIVE: Verve has upped coordinators Jessica Zou and Noah Liebmiller to Agents in the Motion Picture Literary Team.
The agency, which has a tradition of surprising staffers with promotions, last week tasked Liebmiller and Zou with putting together a video as part of a signing exercise. I understand they were told…
EXCLUSIVE: The Francis Lawrence directed Lionsgate prequel Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes continues to expand its ensemble cast with a third round of actors playing mentors and tributes from the Suzanne Collins’ YA novel.
Max Raphael will play Festus Creed, mentor to a tribute from District 4. Zoe Ren…
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has hired public relations executive Laurel Pecchia as their VP, Corporate Communications, reporting to EVP, Corporate Communications Peter Wilkes.
Pecchia will be helping with corporate media relations, executive speeches and presentations, employee communications, preparation for Board…
The Ghostbusters sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlifethat Sonyteased at CinemaCon in a sizzle reel and which director Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan confirmed on Ghostbusters Day, June 8, is getting a theatrical release of Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023.
As hinted at in the end credits of Afterlife, the next chapter will…
The season one finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobidrew a five-day Wednesday through Sunday audience of 1.8 million U.S. households, which is 20% higher than the Wednesday through Sunday five-day pull for The Book of Boba Fett finale, which clocked 1.5M U.S. households.
The data comes from Samba TV, which…
EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse revealed a new motion logo this weekend on their new horror movie, The Black Phone, which overpowered in its 3-day debut to $23.6 million.
The new logo preceded the Scott Derrickson directed, produced and co-written film and it’s the studio’s first ever update to its motion logo.
The logo was…
MONDAY AM: According to data this morning, Warner Bros.’ Elviswins No. 1 this weekend with a $31.1M opening beating the fifth weekend of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverickwhich did $29.6M.
It’s the third No. 1 opening for Warner Bros. YTD after The Batman‘s $134M and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of…
Warning: This interview contains spoilers from HBO’sWestworld episode 401 “The Auguries”.
It’s a whole new Westworld, and, man, does it seem peaceful since Maeve and Caleb took out the predictive-AI, big-think computer Rehoboam last season. Dolores even helped, sacrificing her life.
So, let’s bring everyone up to…
Veteran PR executive Vicky Eguia, who worked on several award winning movie campaigns such as Pan's Labyrinth, La Vie en Rose and Amazon Studios’ Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 48.
Her family revealed the news in a Facebook post early Saturday.
Ho…
Warner Bros’ Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvishas grossed $3.5 million from all previews off 3,400 locations, which includes Tuesday fan events and Thursday night’s showtimes. Meanwhile, Universal/Blumhouse’s The Black Phonetook in $3 million from showtimes that began at 5 p.m. yesterday at 2,800 sites.
It’s expected to be…
Distribution sources are saying there’s a chance that Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverickcould top the box office this weekend in its fifth session with $32 million, a 28% decline week over week.
This will easily send the Tom Cruise movie past the half-billion point at the domestic box office; the pic already is…