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With ballots due at 5PM today, Disney’s 20th Century Studios Ford v. the Ferrari raced to the Oscar finish line with its final screening of the season last night. The James Mangold-directed action drama is up for four Oscars: Best Picture, Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. It’s been roughly a seven-year journey…

UPDATED WITH RESPONSES FROM JAMES CAMERON, JON LANDAU & PATRICK WHITESELL: Emma Watts has just resigned as President of Production at 20th Century Studios. Her existing creative team remains in place, and a new leader is expected to be named in the coming weeks. Disney reports there are no current changes to 20th…

A month ago when Fox Searchlight emails had dropped the Fox, there was a sense that the full integration of the former Rupert Murdoch-owned studio was in full effect at Disney. Well, it’s official today: in the wake of the 20th Century Fox film division updating their emails last night to @20thCenturyStudios, both…

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian-American actress/comedian Yvonne Orji is set to co-star opposite John Cena, Lil Rel Howery, and Meredith Hagner in Vacation Friends, the 20th Century Fox and Hulu comedy directed by Clay Tarver. Based on a spec script from brothers Tom Mullen and Tim Mullen, the film follows a straight-laced couple…

The first trailer for 20th Century Fox/Marvel’s The New Mutants came during CinemaCon in 2017, kicking off a long road for the comic adaptation for Josh Boone that has included several release dates, reshoots, the Disney regime change and even thoughts of putting the film on Hulu. It seems the latest theatrical…

Editors note: The 2019 domestic box office figures are for the period of January 1-December 29. We will update further on January 2. With the total 2019 domestic box office expected to ring up close to $11.4 billion according to Comscore, down 4% from last year’s banner $11.88B, and the forecast that 2020 will be down…

EXCLUSIVE: Director James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari centers on a rivalry born of automotive history, racing lore and mutual disgust. Teaming awards-season veterans Matt Damon and Christian Bale, its star power fueled the pic’s $195 million worldwide gross, but its screenplay helped drive the action on and off the…

Two weeks after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled 20th Century Fox was entitled to injunctive relief in its long-running executive-poaching lawsuit against Netflix, Fox has agreed to drop two claims of tortious interference. The agreement makes it more likely than ever that the rivals will not go to trial over…

Ford v Ferrari tells the true story of how Ford built a race car that defeated Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans. The film's cinematographer, Phedon Papamichael, during 20th Century Fox’s panel for the film at Deadline’s The Contenders New York, discussed some of the real race venues they used in the movie, and how speed…

Paying great homage to the past was the drive of 20th Century Fox’s Ford v. Ferrari and Blue Sky Animation’s Will Smith voiced feature Spies in Disguise. In shooting James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari Oscar nominated DP Phedon Papamichael at Deadline’s NY Contenders today said that the filmmaker was inspired by classic…

Once again, the fans at CCXP proved that they are the world’s most passionate fans as they erupted with off-the-charts applause when Free Guy director Shawn Levy and actors Ryan Reynolds and Joe Keery took the stage to talk about the 20th Century Fox action-comedy about bank teller who realizes he is a background…

EXCLUSIVE: John Cena, Search Party's Meredith Hagner and Lil Rel Howery are attached to lead the comedy film Vacation Friends from 20th Century Fox and Hulu. Clay Tarver, an executive producer of HBO’s Silicon Valley, will helm the film as his first feature directorial outing. Todd Garner is producing the project…