EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Robert Stromberg, the Oscar-winning production designer of Avatar and Alice In Wonderland whose directorial debut Maleficent grossed over $750 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing live-action directorial debut ever. Stromberg, who became the first production designer to win…

UPDATED with five new character posters: The first full trailer for the sequel to Disney’s 2010 blockbuster Alice In Wonderland hit this morning. Alice Through The Looking Glass returns most of the cast — among them Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter and the voices of Stephen Fry, Alan…

Disney’s live-action fairy tale Cinderella will cross the $400 million worldwide mark today, thanks to Kenneth Branagh’s directorial enchantment and the studio’s domestic and international marketing and distribution prowess. With a solid $396.2M through Sunday, the studio will be fueled by the fact that today is a…

EXCLUSIVE: The fallout of Resolution continues. WME has signed Linda Woolverton, the scribe who has written so many hit revisionist fairy tale that you might call her a Grimm Sister. Her resume of fairy tale blockbusters includes Maleficent, Alice In Wonderland and the sequel now in production, and the 2D animated…

EXCLUSIVE: Clearly Johnny Depp‘s reps are in publicity overdrive following a week of bruising bad press when The Lone Ranger bombed and his star status was questioned. The purpose, of course, is to demonstrate that Johnny is very much in demand. And he should be despite the public rejecting both his Tonto and Barnabas…

Anthony Zuiker found himself in a familiar situation today. In 1999, he was an up-and-coming feature writer with no TV experience who wrote a drama project for ABC Studios (then Touchstone TV) and one of its pods, Jerry Bruckheimer TV. After ABC passed on the pitch, it was taken to another network. But when the…

EXCLUSIVE: The CW is jumping down a rabbit hole to Wunderland, putting in development a contemporary reimagining of Alice In Wonderland. Fittingly, Wunderland hails from McG‘s Warner Bros TV-based production company Wonderland Sound And Vision, in association with WBTV. Written by The Playboy Club creator Chad Hodge…

Mirror Mirror may not have burned up the box office in its opening weekend. Its estimated $19 million made the family film a distant and weak third, but that won’t stop a trend among Oscar winning actresses from going evil. Not since Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Olivia DeHavilland and other multi-Oscared…

Nikki Finke’s Annual Oscars Live-Snarking… Winners of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards were announced tonight during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…

American Cinema Editors (ACE) tonight announced the winners for the 61st Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners were revealed during ACE's 61st annual black-tie awards ceremony in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. C…

The Deadline Team of Nikki Finke, Pete Hammond, and Mike Fleming have spent recent days interviewing the studio moguls to gauge their perspective on this very close Oscar race: WALT DISNEY STUDIOS 12 Nominations: 5 Toy Story 3, 3 Alice In Wonderland, 1 Tron: Legacy 3D, 1 The Tempest, 1 Tangled, 1 Day & Night DEADLINE’s…

You know the oft-repeated phrase heard this time of year, "It's an honor just to be nominated"? That was never more true for some who might have actually won the Academy Award but tripped on their way to the Kodak stage by failing to get to first base with a nomination this past Tuesday. This year, presumed…