Over six months after pleading guilty to copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie online, a former studio employee now has to pay Twentieth Century Fox some big bucks and stay home for almost a year. William Kyle Morarity was sentenced on September 26 to…

New Regency founder and Oscar-nominated producer Arnon Milchan will receive one of the annual Industry Tributes at this year’s Gotham Awards, the indie-film honors set for November 28 in New York City. He joins Oliver Stone, Amy Adams and Ethan Hawke as this year’s tribute recipients. The Gotham tributes are…

Did you feel it last year, that tug-of-war between Spotlight, a very American movie (though shot in Canada) about the dying domestic news industry and priestly sexual abuse in Boston, and The Revenant, an essentially global film, with locations that ranged from Calgary to Tierra del Fuego, an international superstar…

UPDATE, 2:20 PM: Despite Leonardo DiCaprio’s best intentions and deep-pocketed ambitions, the Oscar-winning actor will not be hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on August 23, as previously scheduled. The $33,400 a pop fundraiser at DiCaprio’s L.A. pad for the former Secretary of State and Democratic Party…

Two of the seven executive producers on the Oscar favorite The Revenant — Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee — have just formed a Hong Kong- and Beijing-based production and finance company called Facing East Ltd. Their hope is to produce three to four large-scale productions every two years. The first of these is Invers…

This is happening quickly, but Brad Weston is stepping down as president and CEO of New Regency, a job he has held for the last five years. This comes after a run in which Regency has had two Best Picture winners and a Best Picture nominee in three straight years in The Revenant, Birdman and 12 Years A Slave, a…

The RevenantÂ", Sicario, Game of Thrones, Bosch and Sense8 all took home honors tonight from the third annual Location Managers Guild Awards at the Alex Theater in Glendale, CA. The awards honor outstanding and creative international contributions of location professionals and film commissions in seven categories under…

4th UPDATE, WRITETHRU Monday 3:58 PM: Warner Bros’ Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice defied the critics and had a massive $254M international opening this weekend, making it the No. 5 biggest bow ever at overseas turnstiles, and the No. 4 globally with $424.1M. There’s more detail on the WB/DC phenom below, and even…

4th UPDATE, writethru: The animals of Zootopia continue to run wild, ruling the international box office with a weekend kitty estimated at $65M. In this sixth session of overseas release, Disney Animation Studios' tale of anthropomorphic critters brought the offshore cume to just shy of $400M ($390M) and the global…

The official Chinese premiere of The Revenant doesn't actually take place until Sunday, but the film has already snared big box office since bowing in local theaters on Friday. The first day's gross came in at about $11M, and with another $13M or so on Saturday, it’s set up for what's expected to be a $30M+ weekend…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that myster…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off its Best Picture Oscar win for Spotlight, Best Picture nomination for The Revenant and Golden Globe win for Mr. Robot, Steve Golin’s Anonymous Content is now earnestly moving toward shopping itself for what will likely be a minority stake in the company. Guggenheim is shopping it, and I’ve heard…