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The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Today's subject is Guillermo del…

EXCLUSIVE: Over two and a half years after Titans special effects coordinator Warren Appleby was killed while prepping a shoot for the Warner Bros superhero series, a Toronto court has finally handed down some justice. Acme FX were fined $110,000 in Canadian dollars plus a "25% victim fine surcharge" on February 22 by…

In an effervescent and expansive conversation with Alec Baldwin on Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival, Guillermo Del Toro shared a Criterion Collection’s worth of filmmaking wisdom and appreciation. The director's debut appearance at Tribeca, according to festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal’s brief onstage…

Here we are, 33 weeks into the Oscar season, just 19 weeks away from the new 2019 campaign cycle, and 26 weeks from the Feb. 24 Academy Awards ceremony for the films of 2018. If the math seems dizzying, that's because it is. With the advent of the new best popular film Oscar—details of which have yet to be worked…

The nominations are out for the 33rd annual Imagen Awards, which celebrate positive portrayal and creative excellence of Latinos and Latino cultures in TV and film. See the full list below. Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water is nominated for Best Picture, along with Animated Feature Oscar winner Coco…

Oscar Best Picture winner The Shape of Water from Fox Searchlight and Lionsgate’s Hitman’s Bodyguard scored the most individual nominations at the 19th annual Golden Trailer Awards that were unveiled today. Each had eight nominations (including two from Bodyguard in the Trashiest Trailer category), with Disney’s Black…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran exec Roya Vakili has been promoted to Senior Vice President Marketing at Fox Searchlight Pictures International. Vakili was previously Vice President. She joined the company in 2006 and has managed all international marketing functions, working across the entire Searchlight slate, including the…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE, writethru with actuals: In its 2nd weekend of overseas play, Warner Bros/MGM's Tomb Raider unearthed $87.2M across 65 markets, coming in well ahead of the Sunday estimate. That includes China where the No. 1 debut was a solid $41.3M, ranking as Warner Bros' 7th biggest opener ever and landing on par…

Guillermo del Toro’s Best Picture Oscar winner, The Shape Of Water, got off to a fairy tale start in China this weekend, grossing $10.35M (RMB 65.7M) on 17,000 screens. The score tops all comps including Fox Searchlight stablemate Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri which bowed to $2.4M (RMB 15.2M) a few weeks…

EXCLUSIVE: Who is the force with this week? After his film The Shape of Water won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, Guillermo del Toro’s film just passed Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Mexico. The Shape of Water hit $13.9 million while Star Wars did $13.6 million. Okay, so The Shape of Water isn’t…

“We are going to build that wall with Oscars,” five-time winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu joked when I ran into him at the Governors Ball after Sunday night’s Academy Awards. I pointed out that, with Guillermo del Toro’s big win, Mexican directors have won four of the past five Best Director Oscars. Del Toro, Iñárritu…

EXCLUSIVE: Twelve hours after he became a double Oscar winner for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro steps off an elevator at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills looking a little exhausted, but no less overjoyed than he did when I last left him, about six hours earlier, at Fox’s post-Oscar party. There, he was a…