Netflix isn’t reporting weekend grosses for Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma, but we’ve been hearing since Wednesday about sell-out shows at the Landmark’s Pico Blvd Los Angeles and W. 57th New York locations, and Manhattan’s IFC Center, and all in, Deadline industry sources say that the 5-day gross is an estimated $200K which…

EXCLUSIVE: Abraham Attah, the 15-year old Ghana-born actor who was discovered while playing soccer and made a remarkable screen debut alongside Idris Elba as the primary child soldier Agu in Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts Of No Nation, has joined the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Jon Watts-directed pic from Sony…

Spotlight, the indie film that has been in the awards discussion all season and is up for six Oscars tomorrow, warmed up by taking home five awards at the 31st annual Spirit Awards today on the beach in Santa Monica. The Open Road/Participant Films drama about the Boston Globe‘s investigation into the Boston Catholic…

Open Road’s Oscar hopeful Spotlight swept the proceedings at the 31st annual Film Independent Spirit Awards this afternoon in Santa Monica. The drama about the Boston Globe investigation of the Boston Catholic Church’s child abuse scandal won four awards — Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best…

Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight took four big honors at the Capri Hollywood Film Festival. In addition to Hateful Eight being named Best Movie, Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh received nods as Best Actor and Supporting Actress, while composer Ennio Morricone received the prize for Best Musical Score.

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EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winning composer Dan Romer provides the eclectic, ambient score for Netflix's Beasts of No Nation, directed by Emmy winner Cary Fukunaga (True Detective). Starring Idris Elba and newcomer Abraham Attah, the film is based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, centering on the young Agu (Attah), a child…

It's been 2-years since we last saw damaged but driven DCI John Luther throwing his coat into London's Thames and heading off into a new life with sociopathic Alice Morgan. Well, a lot can happen in 2-years and a lot can go wrong. However, the December 17 debuting 2-hour fourth season of Luther is not wrong at all. In…

If today’s SAG Award nominations prove anything, it’s that there are a lot of new guys on the block when it comes to the awards game, and they’ve made a huge impact. Suddenly we have the first major guild race of the year, and new distributor Bleecker <img class="alignleft wp-image-1201437676" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp…

At our big Deadline Presents The Contenders awards-season event November 7 at the DGA, we welcomed Netflix for the first time. Largely known for their Emmy campaigns, Netflix is dipping its toes now into the Oscar game with Beasts Of No Nation, its first narrative theatrical release (the company has had a couple of…

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If ever a weekend left distributors perplexed about how to deliver audiences for movies that deserve them, this was the one. Rarely do you see this many films on a weekend that came with backstories that amounted to cautionary tales about how hard the distribution business is for challenging movies.

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Netflix's infiltration into original theatrical-quality motion pictures officially began with the festival and limited theatrical release of Beasts Of No Nation, a film its director Cary Fukunaga and star Idris Elba thought would be a traditional prestige picture theatrical release when they signed on. Ted Sarandos…