In Hollywood circles, Avi Arad was Marvel when Marvel wasn’t cool. Today, Marvel represents Hollywood’s gold standard for source material but that was hardly the case back in 1992 when Arad’s long odyssey with the brand got underway with Saturday morning cartoons like X-Men and Iron Man, the latter starring Robert…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his Academy Award for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, co-director Bob Persichetti has signed on to direct DreamWorks Animation's next installment of Puss in Boots, the follow-up to 2011's blockbuster Oscar-nominated film that grossed more than $550 million worldwide. Persichetti, a veteran of…

When the Sony-Marvel animated juggernaut Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won for Best Animated Feature, directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman and producers Chris Miller & Phil Lord took the stage and before they could thank the masterminds behind the Marvel webslinger, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko they…

It was a career bounce-back moment for the ages: Just 614 days after they were fired as the co-directors of Solo: A Star Wars Story, creative provocateurs Phil Lord and Chris Miller won the Academy Award for best animated feature for Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “There’s 800 filmmakers who pushed…

FX Networks continues to snap up all marquee movie titles that become available. Over the past six months, the network has acquired such commercial and critical hits as Venom and the Oscar-nominated Bohemian Rhapsody, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Green Book. FX, whose movie deals also include streaming rights…

What master do you serve? Avengers: Infinity War took the VES Awards’ marquee prize for Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature tonight at the Beverly Hilton. The 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and third in the multibillion-dollar Avengers series also won three other trophies en route to front-runner status…

Next stop: Oscar. The world of animation bowed before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse tonight at the 46th annual Annie Awards from UCLA's Royce Hall. The teen-superhero pic from Sony Pictures Animation pummeled the competition, going 7-for-7 in its nominated categories including Best Animated Feature. “Go break new…

The 46th annual Annie Awards is happening tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline is live-blogging all the toon merriment. We also will be updating the winners live. There are a hefty 32 categories to celebrate, but the pace usually is quick. so stay tuned. How will tonight's awards — presented by the International…

Notably boosted by the theatrical strength of Venom, Sony Pictures saw an improved third quarter for the fiscal year 2018, rising to 11.6B yen ($106.5M) in profits versus 10.5B yen in the comparable period of 2017. The Pictures division logged a 6% increase in sales to 276.7B yen ($2.54B) due in part to the muscular…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. You can tell what a tight race this 91st Academy Awards is providing because it doesn’t look like anyone is throwing in the towel. Just three days after nominations were announced, advertising is ramping up in what is known as Phase 2, or the final…

Sony’s innovative and evocative Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has been the runaway train among this year’s animation contenders, and rgw arachnid express kept that momentum going this morning by picking up an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. For the film’s producers, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the Spide…

UPDATE, writethru Warner Bros/DC's Aquaman joined the billion-dollar club worldwide this session, now counting $732.4M at the international box office and $1.02B global. The milestone makes the James Wan-directed origins story the 5th movie released in 2018 to get across $1B, behind Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panthe…