EXCLUSIVE: In its 20th weekend at the box office, A24’s Moonlight will expand to 1,500-plus theaters following its three Oscar wins Sunday. That’s a bigger expansion than last year’s Best Picture winner Spotlight, which jumped to 1,227 theaters, and 2015’s Birdman, which flew to 1,213. Similar to those Best Pic…

This is happening quickly, but Brad Weston is stepping down as president and CEO of New Regency, a job he has held for the last five years. This comes after a run in which Regency has had two Best Picture winners and a Best Picture nominee in three straight years in The Revenant, Birdman and 12 Years A Slave, a…

Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who won last year’s directing prize for Best Picture Birdman, spoke out last night against anti-immigration rhetoric and apparently even Donald Trump’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. “These sentiments,”Iñárritu said at a Los Angeles gala, referring to…

“Nobody's going to go to a film because the guys came in on time and under budget,” Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu told an audience of young filmmakers Saturday at the Producers Guild of America’s Produced By: NY conference. Speaking via satellite from Los Angeles, where he’s in post-production on The Revenant, Iñárritu…

The Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have its first meeting tonight since this year’s Oscar show, the lowest-rated since 2009, and the agenda for these post-show meetings usually revolves around a review of the Oscarcast in order to get feedback on what worked and what didn’t…

The legal fallout continues after the shakeups started last June at the film financing company formerly run by Christopher Woodrow. This time it is the one of the biggest investors in Worldview Entertainment taking the once high-flying company that had multi-picture deals with The Weinstein Company and a $5.458…

UPDATE, MONDAY, 8PM: Updates in the overseas B.O. figures below have been made for Warner Bros., Fox International, Disney, the Weinstein Co. and Universal.  The biggest change among all of them is that Warner Bros.’ Will Smith crime romance Focus bested its Sunday estimate of $12.2M abroad with $13.95M — welcome…

Oscar victories typically translate into a box-office windfall for winners, none more so this year than  Birdman. After grabbing Best Picture and three other Oscars, Birdman took flight in its 20th weekend in theatrical release with a big expansion. Other winners – including Still Alice, The Theory Of Everything and Wh…

Oscar winners Birdman, Whiplash and Theory of Everything are available on VOD and DVD, but you wouldn’t think that looking at their fantastic box office results this weekend. And that wasn’t all. Still Alice, The Imitation Game, American Sniper and even foreign language film nominees Leviathan and Wild Tales were…

While the opportunity to riff repeatedly on hit film Fifty Shades Of Grey was obviously front-and-center of Saturday Night Live’s attention on the night that the movie’s star Dakota Johnson hosted, the show kicked off instead with a political lashing of a notable former politician. And helping in the take-down was…

Carrie Wiltshire has been named Chief Operating Officer of Ignition Creative, the Santa Monica-based ad agency that formulates marketing materials and campaigns and services pretty much every Hollywood studio and network in town. Wiltshire, who had been with the company in various capacities since 2006, will be…

With the 2014 awards season now finally history, Deadline rewinds to near the beginning with our highly successful fourth annual The Contenders Presented By Deadline on November 1st, when each studio/distributor rolled out their most promising prospects for an audience of Academy voters and key guild members. Serving…