6TH WRITETRHU, Monday finals: Don’t blame the Super Bowl for the lackluster performance of this weekend’s new entries: Paramount’s Rings and STX’s teen romance The Space Between Us, which are opening to $13 million in second place and $3.77M in ninth, respectively. Money was left on the table here by those…

Magnolia Pictures’ Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro packed in audiences over the weekend, putting it on track to be one of the year's highest-grossing non-fiction films. Magnolia bowed the Toronto premiere directed by Raoul Peck in 43 theaters, grossing $709K. Paladin's Chapter & Verse, however…

Following major festival accolades and a short qualifying run, Magnolia Pictures' Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro heads to more than two dozen cities this weekend. The film is the final title in the documentary category to begin its regular theatrical run. On the other end of the spectrum, Sony…

Super Bowl weekend isn’t necessarily the worst frame at the box office, and distributors over time have learned to navigate it. Yeah, yeah, business is going to slide Sunday, but there’s still a decent amount of business to be had Friday and Saturday. It just depends if there’s a movie on the marquee that people want…

It is almost impossible to watch The Comedian, in which Robert De Niro plays a washed-up TV sitcom star named Jackie Burke, and not think about The King Of Comedy. Although that savagely biting 1983 Martin Scorsese classic was wildly different, it also featured De Niro as a delusional wannabe stand-up comic who…

Harvey Keitel imitating Robert De Niro – with De Niro watching none too pleased – adds more than a little history and subtext to this clip, exclusive to Deadline, from Taylor Hackford’s upcoming The Comedian. The impression itself? As De Niro indicates here, not too bad. “Let me do you!,” says Keitel’s Mac to De…

Sony Pictures Classics has announced that The Comedian will see release in theaters nationwide beginning February 3. Directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres, the film follows an aging comic icon (De Niro) desperate…

Premieres, special sections, and the opening and closing films have been announced for the 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, happening January 2-16, with The Sense of an Ending, directed by Ritesh Batra selected to open the festival and The Comedian, from director Taylor Hackford has been selected…

“Do you want a job, or do you want to be an ass?” “Do I have to choose?” Here is a trailer for The Comedian, Robert De Niro’s long-gestating passion project in which he plays an aging former comedy star trying to reinvent himself. Jackie Burke once had a TV show and better life. After he assaults a guy he caught…

Robert De Niro is set to receive the Hollywood Comedy Award for his forthcoming film The Comedian, at the 20th annual Hollywood Film Awards which James Corden will host on November 6 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He joins previous recipients, Judd Apatow, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Schumer and Ben…

As reported last week by Deadline’s Mike Fleming, Taylor Hackford’s feature The Comedian starring Robert De Niro will make its world premiere November 11 as a special screening at AFI Fest in Hollywood. From Sony Pictures Classics and Cinelou Films the pic stars De Niro as an aging comic icon named Jackie…

EXCLUSIVE: Get ready to amend those early Oscar season handicapping odds! Sony Pictures Classics has acquired from Cinelou The Comedian and will set the picture for release in Oscar season. SPC bought North American rights to the Taylor Hackford-directed film stars Robert De Niro as an insult comic in career and…