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."
Ever the juggernaut at San Diego Comic-Con, Warner Bros. Television Group is bringing the goods next month with world premieres and panels for its new series Batwomanand Pennyworth, and its Hulu Veronica Marscomeback, but also saying farewell to departing shows Arrow and Supernatural. The shows are part of, count…
4TH UPDATE FINAL Sunday AM writethru, following Saturday 7:35 AM update: The domestic opening for Disney’s Toy Story 4Â is still lower than anticipated when this weekend started, going from $136M on Friday mid-day to $123.7M yesterday morning, to a Disney-reported $118M today. Industry estimates are spotting it at…
When it comes to Disney churning out a $1 billion global grossing film at the box office, some may think that the studio’s brands of Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm simply do all the lifting. Slap Marvel on any deeper universe title like Guardians of the Galaxy and Doctor Strange, and moviegoers just show up…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, It: Chapter 2, Top Gun: Marverick, and a Game of Thrones reunion — you would think that we’re all set at San Diego Comic-Con, but there’s more. Heavy word is that comedic filmmaker-star Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes are heading to the fanboy love-in with a panel for their upcoming Saban Fil…
Marvel’s standalone Black Widow movie starring Scarlett Johansson has added The Departed star Ray Winstone. His role is under wraps with production shooting in London, and as we’ve heard also Norway.
Cate Shortland is directing the pic off Jac Schaeffer's script, with Kevin Feige producing. Winstone joins Rachel…
EXCLUSIVE:Â We unfortunately have learned that Disney VPs Global Publicity Stephanie Kluft and Andrew Bernstein and Fox EVP International Publicity Katherine Willing were part of Wednesday’s cuts at the studio.
All three were veteran PR executives with significant relationships in the industry.
Anecdotally speaking…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, has acquired Hurricane Summer, a new contemporary YA novel by Riverdaleactress Asha Bromfield which will be tentatively slated for Spring 2021.
WME brokered the one book deal for North American rights, with Wednesday Books’ Sara…
EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Dyer, star of NBC procedural drama The InBetween, is boarding Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Manfor Blumhouse-Universal.
Dyer joins the already announced cast of Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid. The pic will shoot in Dyer’s native country of Australia next month, specifically Sydney.
The…
Paramount Pictures and Entertainment One (eOne) will co-finance two upcoming wide theatrical releases: Clifford the Big Red Dogand Monster Problems. Â
eOne will distribute all rights in Canada and the UK (excluding TV in the UK) and Paramount will distribute all other rights including in the U.S.
Walt Becker is…
Joy Fehily is reportedly leaving PR firm PMK-BNC.
Her previous firm Prime PR was acquired by PMK-BNC in 2016. Fehily’s partner of that firm, Michael Donkis, will remain at PMK-BNC, but publicist Cassy Brewer is coming with her.
Fehily will segue to managing client Seth MacFarlane, his production label Fuzzy Door and…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Emily Dean, a vet of such animated pics as The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and The Lego Batman Movie, is set to make her feature directorial debut on Sony Pictures Animation’s Tao. The project is in early development with Tonya Kong attached to write.
Tao is described as a…
“The reason for making this series was because Monica agreed to talk,” says The Clinton Affair EP Alex Gibney about landing Monica Lewinsky for the 6-part A&E docu-series at Deadline’s Contenders.
To understand and rationalize our present, we need to know our past, and when it comes to that axiom there are many themes…
