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EXCLUSIVE: Hilary Swank film Speed Girl has found its writing team. The feature, which comes from Balcony 9 Productions, will be written by Ford v Ferrari screenwriter Jason Keller and his writing partner Bryan Johnson. Keller, who will also exec produce, also previously wrote Snow White film Mirror Mirror and…

Ford v Ferrari co-writer Jason Keller will make his directorial debut helming the feature film La Sombra (The Shadow), from an original screenplay by Keller to be financed by Sherborne Media Finance and Paprika Financing. In the project, Puerto Rico becomes a battleground as one man takes on a powerful local gang…

SUNDAY UPDATE: The international box office continued to show increasing signs of life this weekend, with fresh titles notably in such markets as China, Korea and France. Some of what’s working are films that demand the big screen experience, even if they are arriving late (or are making a re-appearance in certain…

Ford v Ferrari racked up its second Oscar tonight by triumphing in the Film Editing field, with editors Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland both celebrating a debut win. The high-octane pic followed its BAFTA triumph in the same field by beating close competitor Parasite (going by the bookies’ odds), meaning Oscar…

With ballots due at 5PM today, Disney’s 20th Century Studios Ford v. the Ferrari raced to the Oscar finish line with its final screening of the season last night. The James Mangold-directed action drama is up for four Oscars: Best Picture, Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. It’s been roughly a seven-year journey…

Disney’s Ford v Ferrari was the big winner tonight as the Cinema Audio Society handed out its 56th annual CAS Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing in Los Angeles. See the full winners list below. Last year's top CAS Award winner, Bohemian Rhapsody, went on the score the Best Achievement in Sound Editing O…

Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders. At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the…

EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sister and Hair Love repped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday. Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last…

In early December, Disney became the first studio in history to cross the $10 billion mark globally. Now that 2019 has drawn to a close, the numbers have jumped even higher. For the calendar year, the Walt Disney Studios has posted a combined global gross of $13,151.7 million across both Disney and Fox releases (Dis…

If there’s a division and an autonomy between your below-the-line departments on a film, that’s not necessarily a good thing. And what has made James Mangold excel as he has traversed cinematic genres is essentially keeping the same gang together on most of his productions. Ford v. Ferrari reps the director’s seventh…

On Tuesday I presented the first part of my two-part series on Deadline’s Top 10 Best Films of 2019, and now today we complete the list, revealing my Top 5 and ending with my No. 1 choice: my favorite film of 2019. Of course as I wrote earlier this week this is all very arbitrary and extremely difficult to put very…

EXCLUSIVE: Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment's Ford V Ferrari has revved its engines past the $200M mark globally, accelerating to $200.6M through Monday. The split is $106.6M domestic and $94M at the international box office. Disney is handling the awards-season contender that reps the sort of movies Fox…