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 mysteri…

With the gold man going to Inside Out tonight, again the big winner of this year’s Annies has proven to be the winner of the Oscar for Animated Feature Film. Long favored, the Amy Poehler-led Pixar/Disney pic about the often competing primary emotions within an 11-year-old girl is the fourth film in a row from Disney…

Years ago, screenwriter Meg LeFauve made the bold choice to leave a career as an executive at Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures, surprising many. But the move has paid off for her in a big way leading her on a path toward an Oscar nomination for her work on Pixar's Inside Out, which she shares with Pete Docter, as well as…

It already has taken Best Animated Feature at the Golden Globes and PGA Awards, and tonight Inside Out scored the big prize at the 43rd Annie Awards. This win from its peer community — along with nine others — puts Pixar’s pic and its $856.8 million worldwide box office solidly in the front-runner spot for this year's…

The 43rd annual Annie Awards are being handed out tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline will be updating the winners list live. ASIFA-Hollywood will present hardware in 36 categories covering film, TV, commercials and video games. You can follow along in a non-animated fashion by checking out the livestream…

Boosted by Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the latest James Bond installment Spectre, box office in the UK and Ireland had a record-breaking 2015, earning a combined $1.91B, according to Rentrak. That figure reps the highest-grossing year ever, beating the previous highest year in 2012. The figure of 2015 is a 15.3%…

All this week we are looking at the best of the year, so here is Part 1 of my list of the Top 10 Movies Of 2015, listing those films from No. 10 to No. 6. These kinds of lists are always incredibly difficult to put together as I have a lot of favorites for many different reasons. Actually, in compiling my Ten Best…

Propelled by the intergalactic juggernaut that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Walt Disney Studios will top $5B is worldwide grosses today for the first time in its history, but domestically, it’s No. 2 behind Universal Pictures. The J.J. Abrams-helmed Force Awakens is providing only the latest rocket boost for…

Almost from the start, the race for the 2015 Best Animated Feature Oscar has been one movie's to lose. Even before it opened in June, there was heavy betting and anticipation that Pixar/Disney's Inside Out was going to be unbeatable — the 800-lb. gorilla in the contest and one of the best, most complex films ever to…

Two Disney-Pixar films and an adult stop-motion animated comedy and drama were some of the top features nominated at the 43rd Annie Awards. And even though Pixar has The Good Dinosaur and Inside Out in the running, it’s the latter title about the emotions in an adolescent girl’s head that’s charging the way with 14…

Pixar is making history, for Pixar that is, by releasing two movies in 2015 instead of the usual single animated winner it turns out year after year. In June, its highly acclaimed Inside Out immediately started generating not only Best Animated Feature buzz, but also even for Best Picture. That drumbeat continues as…

A total of 16 features have been submitted for consideration for this year’s Best Animated Feature Film category for the 88th Academy Awards. They range from Universal and Illumination’s $1.15B worldwide box office hit Minions and Disney/Pixar’s $840M+ grosser Inside Out to the animated charmer Shaun The…