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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.  Well, it is all just about over but the counting, and in fact, I would guess PriceWaterhouse accountants have even finished that at this point. What that means is two numbers crunchers out of everyone in the whole world are now looking at every…

The writer seated across from me seemed at once pleased but tense. "I want to be sure you understand that I have no personal knowledge of the characters I've written about," he cautioned. "I have never met a member of the Mafia. I come from an Italian family but we talk about books, not hit jobs…. My insight into the…

This is Q&A season in Hollywood, but the rules of the game are changing. To wit: I am onstage with Meryl Streep. Her new movie titled The Laundromat has just been screened and I am posing questions. Why did she decide to star in a very political movie? Why does she depict a victim — a woman who is put upon by two evil…

With Emmy noise and streamer jokes now behind us, Hollywood's dwindling movie fraternity is left to ponder the bemusing lessons of Downton Abbey. First, the numbers: Though Downton is basically structured like an older-skewing streamer movie, its $31 million box office take blew it past a re-cycled Rambo and a Brad…

After Venice and Telluride, the Fall Festival Trifecta continues with the Toronto International Film Festival, where the world premieres just keep on coming. It opens tonight with several of them competing for attention. Most awaited probably is tonight’s debut of The Personal History of David Copperfield…

The medium of virtual reality has been marshaled to explore everything from nature to outer space, roller coaster thrills, the human body and fictional stories, but it's never been put to use quite in the way of Traveling While Black. The Emmy-nominated VR film directed by Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross W…

When composer Kris Bowers watched When They See Us for the first time, it affected him deeply, calling to mind aspects of his upbringing that he hadn't thought about in years. A Netflix miniseries created by Ava DuVernay, When They See Us tells the haunting story of the Central Park Five, five teens growing up in…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. In what has been one of the most spirited and busy Emmy-campaign seasons in memory, maybe ever, the moment of truth, at least first truth, is nearing as the Television Academy opens the polls Monday — online only, folks — for the roughly…

EXCLUSIVE: Green Book Oscar-winner Nick Vallelonga is teaming with Nicolas Cage for action-thriller 10 Double Zero. Vallelonga, who was part of the team to win Oscars for Best Screenplay and Best Picture for Green Book, has penned the film alongside Paul Sloan (I Am Wrath). This will be his first screenplay to go into…

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 (pics with production budgets under $40 million) broken down by the experts. With the Disney-Fox…

Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book has cruised past another milestone, topping $300M worldwide through Sunday. The split on the Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures film from director Peter Farrelly is $84.48M domestic and $219.6M at the international box office, for a running global tally of $304M. In North…

UPDATE, writethru: Captain Marvel remained at the overseas helm this weekend, adding $52.1M in her third frame. The Disney/Marvel title has now grossed $588.8M at the international box office for $910.3M worldwide. The scores for Carol Danvers blast her to the No. 10 spot on the all-time superhero charts, both…