FINAL UPDATE MONDAY, 1:08PM: As expected, Big Hero 6 cruised to the top of the box office weekend. Not so expected: Chris Nolan's saga Interstellar fell short of $50M. Distrib Paramount insisted that the sci-fi genre and film's record IMAX run would keep Sunday drops to a minimum and help the weekend become one of…

FINAL UPDATE MONDAY, 1:42 p.m.: Halloween offered slim pickings for the new kids on the box office block combing for treats this weekend, though several holdovers did a surprisingly good job at protecting their stash. Bill Murray, Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, in particular, exercised a solid grip in October's final…

Deadline is live at the The Contenders 2014 at the DGA Theater on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. A number of studios and distributors today are showcasing their upcoming films for this year’s awards season with talent, directors and creatives in tow. Click through to read our live…

When Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu approached longtime editor Stephen Mirrione about shooting a wholly different movie—one that looked as if it were filmed in one take—Mirrione assumed Inarritu's reputation as a control freak would quash the project quickly. "He's the first to tell you he's very neurotic about his…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central series stars Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have set their first joint film project at New Line. Titled Keanu, the film is set to start production next spring. The title refers not to the actor who played Neo in The Matrix, but rather to a kidnapped cat. Said Peele: “The…

FINAL UPDATE MONDAY 2:06 PM: Gone Girl became just the second R-rated drama to defend its box office title in four years, and now Fox hopes to ride the box office momentum to awards season. With a solid drop of just 30%, the movie’s sophomore frame sets it up for a strong run as director David Fincher’s biggest film…

UPDATED MONDAY, 2:01 p.m: Gone Girl eked a weekend win over Annabelle in one of the most hotly contested races of the year — and one in which there was no loser. Both movies clocked in above $35 million, the first time that’s happened since early August. By the thinnest of margins, the David Fincher-Ben Affleck…

UPDATE, MONDAY, 1:44 PM: The Equalizer came in beneath Sony’s estimates, bringing in $34.1 million for the three-day weekend, easily running over the other newcomer, the animated The Boxtrolls. However, the Denzel Washington film is likely to get side-swiped next weekend by the David Fincher-directed mystery thriller G…

The conventional wisdom in Hollywood long held that the foreign market had an insatiable appetite for American-made genre flicks — actioners, shoot-em-ups, special-effects spectacles, etc. Give the U.S. ticketbuyers what they want and global will fall in line. But with so many domestic releases getting yawns at the…

The Black List announced Friday the six writers named to the online group's second annual Black List Lab, which will send them to Vegas to work on their respective projects. Hosted by Zappos CEO Tony Hseih’s Las Vegas Downtown Project, the lab will gather the half dozen scribes from September 29-October 4 to work with…