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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts has unveiled nominees for its 9th AACTA International Awards with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman leading at six mentions. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood landed five nods while Todd Philipps’ Joker and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite have four each. Those…

This week a special Golden Globes edition of Hero Nation Index… The four Golden Globe nominations for Joker (including best motion picture-drama, best director, and best actor) are a nod to how far comic book cinema has come in terms of big-screen relevance and critical acclaim. But the shrug-and-snub that greeted HBO…

When you look at the list of Golden Globe Motion Picture nominations this morning, the really big surprise is how few surprises there are on it. This is an organization that is known to be heavily star-driven, wanting to get as many glamorous superstars crammed into the Beverly Hilton ballroom as they can, and this…

Warner Bros. brought the unjustly accused, wrongly convicted and left-behind to Deadline’s Contenders New York on Saturday with close-up looks at Joker, Richard Jewell and Just Mercy. Todd Phillips, Joker co-writer, director and producer, said star Joaquin Phoenix lost an astonishing 52 pounds in three months for the…

Netflix’s Martin Scorsese mob drama The Irishman, which already has picked up Best Picture wins from critics groups, is one of the 10 films named to the American Film Institute’s AFI Motion Pictures of the Year list. The diverse group for 2019 includes ranges from indies like Lulu Wang’s A24 pic The Farewell to a…

For composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, the last year has been "beyond crazy"—a whirlwind that she still hasn't fully been able to fathom. Earning her first Emmy for her work on HBO's Chernobyl, Guðnadóttir hit on another water-cooler phenomenon with Todd Phillips' Joker, tapping into the "psychological turbulence" spiraling…

2019 is shaping up to be a banner year for advertising revenue at UK cinemas. According to figures published today by advertising company GroupM, the amount spent by brands at UK theaters will top £200m ($258m) for the first time by year end, up significantly from 2018's total of £184.8m ($239m). The top advertiser in…

MONDAY UPDATE: Already skating to a record-breaking opening weekend, Frozen 2 has stuffed Disney’s sleigh full of even more cash with the Sunday actuals. The studio reports that the international box office debut has risen $5M from yesterday’s estimate to hit $228.2M, while global is now looking at $358.2M, including…

Last week director Todd Phillips saw his DC comic book villain origin movie, Joker surpass the $1 billion mark at the box office  and become the highest grossing ‘R’ rated movie of all time , among other records.  And after an earlier Venice Golden Lion win , it has now also won the prestigious Camerimage Golden Frog…

“It’s always a fresh page when you’re working with Joaquin [Phoenix],” said two-time Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges about his work on Joker, during a conversation at Deadline’s recent The Contenders Los Angeles award-season event. “You’re creating a new person from the ground up. Whether he’s Doc…

The Joker sequel news that hit a trade today is great click bait, but multiple inside sources said that while a sequel to the billion-dollar-grossing film is an obvious likely eventuality that makes all the financial sense in the world, at this point there are no deals for a sequel, nor even any negotiations with…

Joker lenser Lawrence Sher scooped the top prize this weekend at Camerimage, the Polish film festival dedicated to the art of cinematography. Sher picked up the Golden Frog for his work on the Todd Philips-directed pic, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain and has been heavily tipped to be a major…