EXCLUSIVE: It’s the first day of spring — a good time to announce a new digital series based on the cult film Spring Breakers. The 2012 pic’s producers, Chris Hanley and Fernando Sulichin, will revisit party central via Blackpills, a soon-to-launch digital platform. The project kicks off a slate of four scripted…

Spring break is over, but the party hasn't stopped for Spring Breakers. No, I'm not talking about the proposed sequel of sorts that Wild Bunch reportedly is bringing to Cannes this year. Instead, today an early investor in the Harmony Korine-directed 2013 bacchanalia has sued the producers for at least $1.39 million…

UPDATED, 2:35 PM: The LA Film Critics Association held its annual end-of year awards vote today, handing Best Picture to WB pics Gravity and Her in one of multiple ties. The big surprise of the day went down as Best Supporting Actor award resulted in a tie between Oscar contender Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) and Jam…

Here’s a pair of just-released Top 10 lists that make Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films of 2013 look downright pedestrian. Over in the UK, Sight & Sound Magazine picks Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing the best picture of the year while cult filmmaker John Waters names Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers #1. With…

The annual marketing kudos went big for Disney pics Iron Man 3, Wreck-It-Ralph, Monsters University, Brave, and The Avengers at the Golden Trailer Awards Friday night. The GTAs didn’t just fete the best movie promos of the year. They also doled out Trashiest Trailer (to A24’s Spring Breakers) and gave indie comedy Hit…

SUNDAY 9:30 AM, 7TH UPDATE: Distributor Twentieth Century Fox is reporting that DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods made $63.3 million internationally — including $16 million from overseas previews the weekend before – for a worldwide cume of $108 million. Toon was playing on 11,870 screens in 47 markets and 86…

EXCLUSIVE: Spring Breakers helmer Harmony Korine, on the verge of having his first breakout hit after a most eclectic career, has made a deal for his next film to be produced by John Lesher's Le Grisbi Productions and DCM Productions. Spring Breakers will open wide this week through A24 after garnering a huge per-scree…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. UPDATED: Just in time for the debauchery of Spring Break that has long provided fodder for Hollywood, distribution newcomer A24 Films scored big time with this weekend’s three-theater opening of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. The Venice/Toronto debut headlining James Franco…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. A24 Films will release two of its brood this weekend including Harmony Korine’s anticipated Selena Gomez/Vanessa Hudgens/James Franco starrer Spring Breakers, which had its U.S. debut this past week at the SXSW Film Festival. The new distribution company will also roll out <a…

Harmony Korine‘s Day-Glo crime thriller Spring Breakers had its U.S. premiere Sunday night at SXSW, where stars Selena Gomez, James Franco, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine (minus Vanessa Hudgens) joined their director onstage for a Q&A. “I'd been collecting Spring Break imagery for a couple of years from fraternity…

SXSW isn't a sales-dominant fest, but two years ago Universal’s Bridesmaids debut here paid off when the Kristen Wiig pic became a $288 million global box office hit. Now studios with spring openers and genre fare are hoping SXSW can be a similar launching pad for strong word of mouth. Here are the mainstream pics…

Harmony Korine‘s girls gone wild caper will get a limited LA/NY peek on March 15 before rolling out nationwide on March 22, A24 and Annapurna Pictures announced today. The R-rated pic follows a gang of trouble-seeking coeds (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine) who get mixed up with a…