In the sixth-year running of Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament, it’s Anthony and Joe Russo who get to climb the ladder and cut the net after directing 2018’s most profitable movie. Disney-Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War earned $500M after a $1.27 billion global B.O. take. It won’t come as a surprise if…

Jimmy Kimmel was just thinking of the children when he invited a bunch of Avengers to his show Monday night. With Avengers: Endgame looming, Kimmel wanted to bring kids up to speed on the superhero tale without getting mired in all that death, genocide and adult-heavy stuff that peppered Avengers: Infinity War. So he…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is already poised to be one of the biggest movies of the year — and perhaps of all time — and its potential global opening looks like it just got a whole lot bigger. Chinese authorities have now given the superhero fourquel an April 24 release date. Unlike Avengers: Infinity War, this…

Here comes Captain Marvel to the rescue and to set the box office back on track. The domestic comp to last year has been off by as much as 26% and that’s largely because we’re comparing this year to a Black Panther-fueled winter a year ago. Well, business is about to get better for 2019 as Disney’s Captain Marvel, the…

What master do you serve? Avengers: Infinity War took the VES Awards’ marquee prize for Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature tonight at the Beverly Hilton. The 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and third in the multibillion-dollar Avengers series also won three other trophies en route to front-runner status…

Despite the looming specter of Brexit, the UK production business continues to drive strong numbers — even if preliminary statistics released by the BFI today do not all constitute new records. Film and high-end TV production spend combined exceeded £3.1B ($4B) in 2018. Television saw the bigger increases, repping…

The Visual Effects Society has revealed nominations for the 17th annual VES Awards, which will recognize the best VFX artistry and innovation in film, animation, TV, commercials and video games. Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity Wars and Netflix’s Lost In Space lead the film and TV categories this year with six…

With $41.66B worldwide, movie theater turnstiles spun to another record in 2018. Largely boosted by domestic receipts, the total includes a preliminary comScore estimate of $29.8B from the international box office. That's also a record, though just a 1% increase on 2017 with some offshore markets stung by exchange…

Overall home entertainment spending by U.S. consumers climbed 11.5% in 2018 to a record $23.3 billion, according to the Digital Entertainment Group, an industry consortium. Announcing the preliminary annual figures during CES, the DEG noted an especially strong fourth quarter, when spending increased 13% to $6.3…

China box office for 2018 rose 9% over 2017, reaching RMB 60.98B ($8.87B), official figures now show. That's a softer increase than the 13.5% we saw from 2016-2017, but is in keeping with the market's target of RMB 60B. Although there was no single behemoth breakout like 2017's Wolf Warrior 2, a handful of local…

As 2018 draws to a close, comScore is estimating that worldwide box office will hit a record $41.7B. That would rep a 2.7% upwards shift from last year's $40.6B and mark only the second time ever that it's cracked $40B. This year's growth is largely driven by domestic which is eyeing a benchmark $11.9B, a 7% increase…