One of the most prolific actors of our time, J.K. Simmons never seems to slow down, with a resume far too long to list here, but which includes everything from Juno to La La Land, to The Closer, True Grit, Justice League, and an Oscar and Globe-winning turn in Whiplash. His latest incarnation in Starz's Counterpart…

Blumhouse principal Jason Blum has turned low-cost, high-gross genre films into such a reliable hit formula that Universal staked him to a decade-long deal to serve as a silo offsetting the studio's blockbusters and Illumination Entertainment family films. The payoff: since last fall, the blockbusters Get Out, Split, T…

Oscar victories typically translate into a box-office windfall for winners, none more so this year than  Birdman. After grabbing Best Picture and three other Oscars, Birdman took flight in its 20th weekend in theatrical release with a big expansion. Other winners – including Still Alice, The Theory Of Everything and Wh…

Oscar winners Birdman, Whiplash and Theory of Everything are available on VOD and DVD, but you wouldn’t think that looking at their fantastic box office results this weekend. And that wasn’t all. Still Alice, The Imitation Game, American Sniper and even foreign language film nominees Leviathan and Wild Tales were…

In an odd year statistics-wise, only three films earned more than three wins last night at the 87th Oscars: the two Searchlight pics and Sony Pictures Classics’ Whiplash with three nods. Here is the full annotated list of winners by film: Birdman – 4 BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher…

Fox Searchlight's Birdman had a total of four wins at last night’s 87th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director for Alejandro G. Inarritu, Original Screenplay and Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography — a second consecutive Oscar for the DP. Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, also from Fox Searchlight…

Defying predictions including by Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Whiplash nabbed its third Oscar of the evening when editor Tom Cross took home the award for Best Editing. The film bested stiff competition from ACE Eddie Awards winners Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel, as well as American Sniper, and The Imitation Game. W…

Is anyone surprised? The Supporting Actor award for J.K. Simmons' performance as a terrifyingly sadistic music director Terrence Fletcher in Whiplash was his "practically since the film debuted at Sundance over a year ago," Deadline's Awards Editor Pete Hammond said. Hollywood loves long-time character actors who…

If Birdman or even Boyhood wins best picture at the Oscars tonight, don't look for a big uptick in their domestic box office. During the past 10 years, an Oscar Best Picture win has translated into a 20% increase in a film's total cume following the ceremony, but achieving that hike depends on whether the distributor…

Editors’ Note: This story was originally published Wednesday. OK, here’s the moment you have been waiting for. Or maybe not. My Oscars predictions. Although many of these categories are Sure Things (I will tell you which ones by noting them as we go along), a remarkable number of them are still up in the air, and I…

UPDATED with details: Birdman snagged Best Feature today at the 30th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. The win in the final category gave it three trophies, breaking the four-way tie with Boyhood, Nightcrawler and Whiplash, the only other pics with multiple wins under the tent at Santa Monica beach. Birdman star…

Rallying for two of the final three wins of the afternoon, Fox Searchlight’s Birdman won a leading three times at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on the beach in Santa Monica. It added wins for Best Actor Michael Keaton and cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki. Three other films had two wins: Boyhood, including for…