Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic Dunkirk and Sony’s fast-paced Baby Driver won honors tonight at the fifth annual Location Managers Guild International Awards. In addition, both HBO’s long-running Game of Thrones and Netflix’s critically acclaimed Ozark took home awards for television.

Dunkirk was filmed at the French…

When Deadline runs its Most Valuable Blockbuster film profitability countdown each year, readers often ask about certain wildly profitable films that didn't crack our top list. So we’ve once again had five overachievers broken down by the experts; pics with production budgets under $40M.

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A new British Film Institute report has revealed that in 2017, British-qualifying films scored their second-best global box office performance since 2002. UK qualifying films had a total worldwide (so including UK) box office of $8.1B last year, taking 21% of the total market. Of that, 18.6% came from studio-backed UK…

EXCLUSIVE: If a studio wants to stoke the under 25 crowd, they bring their hipster movie to SXSW. That’s what Sony did a year ago with Edgar Wright’s action auto ballet Baby Driver yielding initially a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and ultimately $107.8M domestic, $226.9M global at the B.O. off a $34M budget plus three…

In Baby Driver, his fifth collaboration with writer-director Edgar Wright, sound designer Julian Slater found perhaps the greatest challenge of his career that was also his greatest opportunity: a cinematic vehicle that was all about sound.

Ever since 2004's Shaun of the Dead, Slater had become accustomed to Wright's…

Having worked with Edgar Wright on several films before his groundbreaking Baby Driver, editors Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos were well-acquainted with the director’s love of true cinematic experiences, as well as his audacity and desire to use every tool at his disposal to tell his stories.

While Wright has pushed h…

The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society has unveiled its inaugural awards, naming Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water its Best Picture of 2017. The Fox Searchlight pic had four wins overall, including Best Director, Best Actress for Sally Hawkins and Best Score for Alexandre Desplat.

Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird…

In our first Crew Call podcast of awards season, we sit down with Baby Driver director Edgar Wright and his supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer Julian Slater to discuss how they made the director’s passion project the visceral and aural experience of the summer — an original piece of IP that could be seen only in t…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk sailed into China this weekend with a No. 1 start and over 50% of the Top 5 films at an estimated $30M (RMB 196M) on 15,000 screens. The full international box office weekend on the Warner Bros title is $36.5M in 60 markets, making it the No. 1 movie at offshore…

Previous, Saturday, 10:16AM:  Updated with Edgar Wright’s quote The Edgar Wright-directed action movie ballet Baby Driver broke the $100M threshold yesterday as we exclusively reported on Saturday morning. The film made by Sony/TriStar, Working Title and Media Rights Capital to the tune of a net production cost of…

Showtime has acquired TV rights Baby Driver, Edgar Wright’s music-driven action movie that is tearing up multiplexes in its second weekend at the box office. Showtime Networks' subscribers will get access to the premium TV window in 2018 across all platforms including Showtime On Demand, Showtime Anytime and the pay…

Baby Driver is either the hippest new action movie around or, as one critic calls it, "an overlong music video," but in either case it redefines how movies and music dynamically inter-connect. "It's an exercise in syncopating an entire movie to music," in the words of Modi Wiczyk, whose company, MRC, co-funded the…