A24’s smart slasher/horror X grossed over $4.4M on 2,865 screens to take fourth place at the weekend box office, topping expectations for writer/director Ti West’s return after a six-year absence from film. His first ever wide release, a cross between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Boogie Nights, is currently Certified Fresh at 96% and has a prequel nearly […]
The body of a Pennsylvania man missing for almost 20 years has been found, thanks to the help of a specialized YouTube group. Adventures With Purpose runs a YouTube channel with over two million subscribers. It is known for finding missing persons in bodies of water, and in the Pennsylvania case, they did it again. […]
Refresh for latest…: Just days after Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman rounded the five-century mark globally, it is now just shy of $600M worldwide in its third weekend. A $49.1M overseas frame (down 46% versus last session) brings the international box office cume on the Matt Reeves-directed pic to $298M, with global standing at $598.1M through […]
A global pandemic which closed a majority of the world’s cinemas from 2020-21 just won’t keep large format exhibitor Imax down. This morning, Imax announced that it crossed a $10 billion milestone in its lifetime global box office from narrative, non-documentary feature releases. The news comes in the wake of the exhibitor and specialty camera […]
A gunman opened fire early Sunday morning as bars closed at the intersection of East 6th and Neches streets in Austin, Texas. The shooting resulting in four people being injured in the busy entertainment area, which is filled with popular restaurants and bars with live entertainment. The call came in at 2 a.m. on March […]
UPDATE: LeBron James is now the No. 2 all-time scorer in NBA history, passing former Laker Karl Malone. Ahead lies another former Laker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Malone scored 36,928 points. Abdul-Jabbar’s record of 38,387 is in reach by next year. James has officially scored more points all-time in the regular season and playoffs than any other […]
Emily in Paris actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu has revealed that she will be appearing in the forthcoming season of The Crown. Having won admiring reviews for her role of marketing boss Sylvie Grateau – who frequently butts horns with younger American marketing executive Emily Cooper, played by Lily Collins – Leroy-Beaulieu is set to come to […]
Apple Original Films’ CODA has won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at PGA Awards tonigtht, making a Best Picture win at Oscar next Sunday highly likely — while also making history as the first ever streaming film to win this award at the Producers Guild Awards. How The […]
In accepting the Stanley Kramer Award at the PGAs tonight, EGOT winner and West Side Story actress Rita Moreno, reflected on the time she first heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech near the Lincoln monument in Washington D.C. She was invited to the event by Harry Belafonte. “I’m 90 […]
“Season 4 everyone knew that we were heading toward a tournament, season 5, no one knows where we are headed,” said Cobra Kai co-creator Jon Hurwitz. “We do, because we already made it,” he teased about the Karate Kid Netflix series to Deadline tonight at the PGA Awards, “There’s a lot of insanity; if you’re a fan […]
On Saturday night, Greg Berlanti used his PGA acceptance speech as a platform to widely criticize the “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in Florida. Accepting the Norman Lear Lifetime Achievement Award, Berlanti described how Lear’s work impacted his life and said his experience growing up gay in a distinctly homophobic environment is being paralleled again right […]
While not specifically calling out Disney’s recent debacle surrounding Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy made it known that she and her fellow PGA Milestone Award recipient George Lucas are on the right side of history, giving a shout-out to the impact of diverse, female and LGBTQ artists in the motion picture industry. “Steven, […]
Belfast writer-director Kenneth Branagh and actor Ciarán Hinds have tested positive for Covid-19 and missed the Producers Guild Awards ceremony Saturday, where the film is up for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter mentions that Jude Hill, the young star of Branagh’s autobiographical film, said, “We […]
After Squid Game became the surprise Netflix phenomenon that ripped through streaming audiences in 2021, the burning question is, will there be a second season? Speaking to Deadline on the red carpet at Saturday’s PGA Awards ceremony, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk said there is nothing to see just yet, but he is working hard on […]
Before Dune wins any one of the 10 Oscars for which it’s nominated, filmmaker Denise Villeneuve is already in prep on the second half of the Frank Herbert classic. Oscar-nominated Dune producer Mary Parent already told us that a fall shoot is being eyed. The production is bound to return to Jordan, where Villeneuve, the […]
The Producers Guild of America has raised the curtain on its 33rd annual PGA Awards, which are being handed out tonight at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Deadline is updating the winners live as each of the 10 categories is announced; see the list below. Summer of Soul, from the Onyx Collective, […]
The 58th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards are underway Saturday night in a live, in-person ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. The group is presenting awards in seven categories honoring the year’s best achievements in motion picture and TV sound mixing, with Kristen Vangsness returning to emcee the event. Also during tonight’s ceremony, the […]
Ted Lasso fans rejoice, Season 3 is underway. “We started [shooting] a week ago,” producer Kip Kroeger told Deadline on the PGA awards red carpet Saturday night. As for what we can expect to see of the new upcoming season, producer Liza Katzer said: “I think it’s just more of what everyone loves and what […]
“Sounds like Santa’s slave, but I respect the rebrand,” says Donald Glover’s Earn to his Dutch driver’s explain of the Sinterklaas tradition and the question of “What’s with all the blackface?” in the second episode of Atlanta’s third and penultimate season. Yes, Atlanta is back, and if the first two episodes are an indication, it […]
Another syndicated daytime talk show is coming to an end: NBCUniversal’s veteran tabloid talker Maury, hosted and executive produced by Maury Povich. The show will end original productions at the end of this season, when Povich plans to retire. Original episodes will air through September, after which repeats of Maury will continue to air in […]
After spending 90 minutes watching major league celebrity chef Jose Andres hustling to deliver food to desperate people in far-flung corners of the globe, it’s almost shocking to see him being tripped up simply because his little plane has run out of gas. By this time, you believe that this guy could just keep running […]
