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Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander representation prevailed at this year’s Oscar nominations, fueled largely by A24’s indie event, Everything Everywhere All at Once with 11 noms. The breakthrough comes in the wake of Parasite‘s 6 Oscar noms/4 wins in 2020, and Minari‘s six Oscar noms/one…

Hollywood is notoriously fickle. It can create stars overnight and toss them aside as quickly, moving on to the next big thing. Once you are gone, you are usually forgotten, with no second shot at stardom and no career do-overs. Related Story Oscar Nominations: The Complete List of Nomin…

Brendan Fraser won Best Actor at the Critics Choice Awards for his work on The Whale and delivered one of the most emotional speeches of the night. Fraser started crying when his name was announced as the winner and when he took the stage he cited that Herman Melville “once wrote that there are only…

A24's The Whale crossed the $11-million mark in week six as it jumped to 1,500 screens from 835 as the Brendan Fraser-starrer and other contenders continue to tweak theatrical runs through awards season. The film, which received a PGA nomination for Best Motion Picture this week along with SAG noms…

Welcome Back! I’m here with another dope episode of the Scene 2 Seen Podcast, and today’s guest is actress Sadie Sink. The young actress is making a name for herself in the world of entertainment. She began her career on Broadway as the title role in the revival of Annie in 2013. She then went on to…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Darren Aronofsky held the movie rights to Samuel D. Hunter’s award-winning 2012 play The Whale for a decade before he finally got the elements he wanted…

There was a clilff-hanger ending to Season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things. So when cast member Sadie Sink spoke this morning on Today with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush on what may come in the fifth and final season of the series, fans were all ears to hear what may happen. Sink sunk hopes of any…

With nominations and awards coming in at a furious clip for his remarkable performance as the 600 pound teacher, Charlie, in Darren Aronofsky’s film adaptation of writer Sam Hunter’s play, The Whale, there is reason to believe this film, almost certain to…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. In the waning days of 2022 we are taking one last deep breath before the insanity begins and the dispensing of actual awards shifts into high gear. Right off the bat on January 5, the P…

For Oscar-nominated prosthetic makeup designer Adrien Morot, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale represents one of the greatest creative risks taken in a career of around three decades.  On the A24 drama based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hunter, he would need to facilitate the complete transformation…

TUESDAY AM: Final 4-day holiday numbers 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water came in with $95.5M in its second 4-day weekend. Global is nearing $1 billion. Nancy will have more on that soon. That 4-day weekend is just under that of Rogue One‘s 4-day second weekend of $96.1M, the…

20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water made $14.3 million yesterday at 4,202 theaters, ranking it as the second best Wednesday of 2022 after Top Gun: Maverick‘s $14.8M on June 1. Avatar 2‘s first Wednesday also outstripped that of Minions: The Rise of Gru ($13.5M, July 6) and Black Panther…