Deadline’s annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year’s most profitable films. This year, we decided to look at the films on the opposite end of the spectrum. The big budget misfires that bled red ink and reminded everyone from the artists to the executives and studio executives that big…

EXCLUSIVE: Posthumous Oscars are rare, but Chris Cornell, who died in May at age 52, stands a chance of winning one, or at least being nominated, for his moving theme song from The Promise. The film is an epic-like love story from director Terry George that is set during the Armenian genocide and the last days of the…

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger doesn’t mind taking on some powerful forces. He squared off with oil giant Chevron in Crude. In the Paradise Lost trilogy, he went up against prosecutors in the notorious case of the West Memphis Three. With his latest film, Intent to Destroy, he's running afoul of the…

UPDATED Mon. 2:42 PM: Universal’s The Fate of the Furious ended up right as expected Sunday to push its second three-day weekend to $38.4M. The film, similar to other films in the franchise, fell 61% in its sophomore frame as the studio has traditionally looked for a harder charge overseas, and they have been getting i…

"Every movie needs a rabbi," Samuel Goldwyn once wrote. His comment seems relevant to two movies bowing this weekend, both in urgent need of help. One has a world-class rabbi, the other an invisible one. Oprah Winfrey, as mega-energized as ever, has gone multimedia pitching her new film, whose title is as complex as…

Old-fashioned filmmaking to its core, The Promise is simply the kind of movie Hollywood is not interested in making anymore and, if you listen to predictions of impending box office doom, apparently the kind of movie audiences aren’t craving to see. That’s too bad because in the hands of Oscar-winning director Terry Ge…

The UCLA School of Law is launching The Promise Institute for Human Rights with the help of a $20 million gift funded in part by proceeds from The Promise, the Armenian genocide drama starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac that opens Friday. Funding for the institute, eyed to serve as a national hub for human rights…

The new trailer for director Terry George’s The Promise has just been released, showing the epic nature of the film which tells the story of a love triangle set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide. The film, which had its world premiere last fall at Toronto was picked up by Open Road for an April 21…

Survival Pictures' The Promise, the drama starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale about the Armenian Genocide, will donate all proceeds from the film to various non-profit organizations including Sir Elton John’s AIDS Foundation and other humanitarian and human rights groups. The film will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Promise, the new film from Terry George about the Armenian genocide that had its world premiere in the fall at Toronto. Open Road, which acquired and distributed last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight, has set an April 28 wide release date for the…

EXCLUSIVE: What a fitting legacy for Kirk Kerkorian. Because of the late Armenian mogul, the first mainstream film about the genocide of Armenians at the hand of the Turks has finally been produced in Hollywood. Terry George’s The Promise starring A-list talent including Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale had its its…

On Monday morning, The Birth Of A Nation is gone from the Toronto Film Festival (at least until a last screening on Saturday), and there's finally time for somebody else's problems. Today’s Globe And Mail said the film is leaving as it arrived: with a question mark. A side-stepping press conference with star-director…