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 myster…

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes took home the top film prize tonight at the 13th annual VES Awards. The VFX team of Joe Letteri (right), Ryan Stafford, Matt Kutcher, Dan Lemmon, Hannah Blanchini picked up the trophy for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture…

Dawn Of the Planet Of The Apes and Big Hero 6 were the big winners tonight at the 13th annual VES Awards, which were doled out tonight at the Beverly Hilton. Apes won three awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture; Big Hero took all five it was…

Hollywood’s sound pros nominated Birdman and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for three awards apiece as the Motion Picture Sound Editors unveiled nods for its 62nd MPSE Golden Reel Awards, honoring the best feature film, television, animation and computer entertainment work of the year. “2014 was a fantastic year for…

20th Century Fox earned more than $5.5 billion at the global box office in 2014, breaking the previous record for a studio’s worldwide grosses set by Paramount in 2011 by more than $350M. The studio’s big hitters this year were X-Men: Days Of Future Past ($514 million gross internationally; $233 million domestically…

Matt Reeves, director of Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, talks with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. about the work of Andy Serkis, and how visual-effects house Weta Digital transformed Serkis physical performance into Caesar, the chimp leading the apes after a worldwide plague has decimated the human population. Reeves…

UPDATED, Monday, 12:47 PM: We have all 29 films’ final totals updated so far, including this weekend’s big box office king, The Maze Runner. Updated so far (besides Maze Runner) are Universal’s The Boxtrolls and Lucy, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, and the Fox titles Let’s Be Cops, How To Train Your Dragon 2…

UPDATE, Monday, 3:35 PM: Overseas actuals have been logged for Lucy, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Hercules, Into The Storm, TMNT, The Fault In Their Stars, If I Stay, 22 Jump Street, Sex Tape, Deliver Us From Evil, Boyhood, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Let’s Be Cops, Step Up: All In, As Above, So Below, Transformers…

Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will pass the $200M mark today after a total cume through this morning of $197.6M  and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is right on its heels. As of this morning, Apes‘ total is $199.9M. Guardians surpassed the threshold in 15 days of release. Apes is in its fifth weekend of…

3RD UPDATE, MONDAY 3:10 PM PT: All studios have reported actuals for the international weekend with no major discrepancies between the cumulative estimates reported Sunday and what's come across today. Across the top titles, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes was up a tick to $54.84M from an estimated $54.4M; Transformers…

2ND UPDATE, MONDAY 3:20 PM PT: Updated figures for the international weekend have come in with all studios reporting. Among the top movies in the marketplace, Transformers: Age Of Extinction‘s 4th frame was up from original estimates to $84.6M in 58 territories ($662.6M cume), and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes was…

8th UPDATE, Monday, 1:32 PM: It was a down weekend. After the dust cleared today, we can see the final dips: The calendar year-to-date is down 6% with the weekend of the Top Ten from last year to this year down 25%. All films added in, the business is down 23.9%. Given that all pictures underperformed a bit, here are…