MONDAY AM: Paramount’s Mean Girls posted a solid hold on Sunday, -22% from Saturday, with $7.5M, which is translating into a $28.65M 3-day, $33.2M 4-day. Amazon MGM/Miramax’s The Beekeeper came in line with weekend estimates, with a $4.1M Sunday, 3-day of $16.57M and a 4-day of $19M. Legendary/Tri-Star’s The Book …
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The Iowa caucus on Monday will be like no other —- and that was apparent from the start, well before subzero weather raised doubts about turnout, stymied campaigns in the final sprint and left an army of reporters and consultants seeking the warm refuge of Des Moines hotel lobbies. The …
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EXCLUSIVE: A pair of UK execs are unveiling a plan to bring TV commissioning and brands closer together, as they launch London-based content agency and production firm House of Oddities (HOO). Sachini Imbuldeniya and Darren Smith have teamed to open HOO, which launches this morning. Imbuldeniya has exited Argonon-owned branded …
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SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the season premiere of True Detective: Night Country. The night is dark and full of terrors in Ennis, Alaska, the fictional setting for the fourth season of acclaimed crime anthology True Detective, which premiered tonight on HBO. This is the Night Country …
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EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie is getting into this year’s Oscar race. As AMPAS voting enters its final days, the Academy Award winner today threw her support behind Ava DuVernay’s Origin in what looks to be doubling down by any other name. First of all, Jolie held an invite-only get together at …
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Refresh for latest… It’s trophy night in Santa Monica as the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards are being handed out at Barker Hangar, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. See the list below, followed by the remaining nominees. Chelsea Handler is back to host the ceremony, …
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Mark Ruffalo tells me he has, until now, kinda shied away from playing the villain of the piece. He licks his lips as he declares that it’s “so much fun to finally get to play the bad guy.” He refers, of course, to his Duncan Wedderburn, the calculating cad of the …
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Oscar documentary branch voters can’t be accused of parochialism. They ventured far and wide to select their shortlist of feature documentaries for 2023, tapping films from countries as varied as a U.N. roll call: Ukraine, Uganda, Poland, Denmark, Tunisia, Canada and the United States. To Kill a Tiger, one of …
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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. One of my very favorite events, if not the favorite of all of Oscar season, is the AFI Awards, which started a wild holiday weekend of awards ceremonies and parties. All that will culminate in the Primetime Emmys Monday night, and then the …
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A chance meeting at a New York City hotel brought together multi-award-winning actor Gael García Bernal and Roger Ross Williams, an Academy Award-winning director who wanted to discuss Mexico’s Luchadores Exóticos, specifically trailblazer Saúl Armendáriz, better known as Cassandro. Luchadores Exóticos are male wrestlers who performed in drag in the …
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After spending 30-plus years honing his craft for stage and screen, Colman Domingo is more than ready for his close-up. Considering the actor’s versatile resume, which includes memorable performances in Selma, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fear the Walking Dead, or his Emmy-winning role on Euphoria and a handful of Tony …
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The French artist Apolonia Sokol – focus of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Apolonia, Apolonia – has been compared to the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. She concedes there may be a few parallels, beginning with something of a physical resemblance. “I was joking a little bit about that — the fact …
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