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Anthony D'Alessandro
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Anthony covers box office, breaking film news, awards-season features and festival news. His first job in the film industry was at Savoy Pictures' headquarters in New York where he worked in film distribution. In the summer of 1999, he was hired by Variety and moved to Los Angeles, and remained in the newsroom covering numerous parts of the industry, including box office, for about a decade. Prior to arriving at Deadline in the fall of 2011, where he co-edited the site's sister publication Awardsline, Anthony covered the box office beat for Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood. He also co-produced Matt Walsh's film "A Better You."
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Angel Studios Acquires Animated Pic ‘The King Of Kings’, Sets Pre-Easter Release
EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios has taken worldwide rights to the animated feature, The King of Kings, setting an April 11, 2025 release date leading into the Easter weekend of April 18-20.
The movie is inspired by Charles Dickens' short story The Life of Our Lord, and was created by South Korea's…
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‘Voltron’ Movie At Amazon MGM Studios Adds Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora & John Kim
Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora, and John Kim are joining Amazon MGM Studios’ Voltron movie, alongside previously announced stars Daniel Quinn-Toye and Henry Cavill. Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing the from a script he wrote with Ellen Shanman. Plot details are under wraps, however, Thurber shared a…
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequel Update: Jon M. Chu Says “I Won’t Bring Everyone Back Unless It’s Worth It”
With Wicked conquering the Earth, the million-dollar question for filmmaker Jon M. Chu as he reaps the biggest box office opening of his career ($164.2M) is where, oh, where is the Crazy Rich Asians sequel?
The Warner Bros. movie broke glass ceilings not only on-screen for Asian and Asian American…
‘Wicked – Part One’: All The Box Office Records Broken
Broadway musicals adapted to the screen are an erratic genre at the box office, despite Miramax’s multi-Oscar winning Chicago reviving the long-dormant Hollywood genre back in 2002 with $306.8M WW. Yet for every Les Miserables ($442.7M) hit from Universal, there were massive misfires like Dear Evan Hansen…
‘Wicked’ & ‘Gladiator II’ AKA ‘Glicked’ Fuel $205M Combined Weekend, Best Pre-Thanksgiving Frame In 11 Years — Sunday AM Box Office Update
SUNDAY AM: Two of the most anticipated tentpoles this year missed their projections, but are still rich enough to make exhibition happy in what’s driving an overall estimated $205M weekend. EntTelligence says that a combined 12M people went to see Wicked and Gladiator II, representing 81% of the weekend’s…
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Electromagnetic Has Thriller ‘Inconceivable’ In Works With Scribe Lauren Black & Producers Colleen Camp & Jonathan M. Black
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Kimsey and Roger Birnbaum’s Electromagnetic Productions are developing the feature film, Inconceivable.
The film, written by Lauren Black, is a gripping thriller about 38-year-old college professor Sydney Drake, who is determined to obliterate any obstacle in her quest to conceive…
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Musicals Aren’t Dead, Even In Two Parts: Jon M. Chu’s “Obvious” Decision Has ‘Wicked’ Opening To $114M, A Record For Broadway-To-Screen Pic – Crew Call Podcast
It’s a death-defying act to split one property into two movies.
Warner Bros did it with the greatest of ease on the final film adaptation of Harry Potter, 2010 and 2011’s Deathly Hallows, which combined grossed $2.3 billion worldwide. However, Lionsgate ran into a buzz saw and tried it with the…
Lionsgate Unsets Guy Ritchie’s ‘In The Grey’
Guy Ritchie's next action thriller In the Grey won’t be coming out on January 17, 2025 as previously scheduled as the movie isn’t finished. Lionsgate has taken the title off the calendar for the time being. The trailer debuted for exhibitors back at CinemaCon, where the movie received its title.
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Sweden’s Oscar Entry ‘The Last Journey’: Making Dad Beam At All Costs – Clip
EXCLUSIVE: When one thinks of Swedish cinema, the head fills with images of Ingmar Bergman movies, the gritty punk noir The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, oh, and let’s not forget the takedown of the Bourgeois in The Triangle of Sadness. But along comes this year’s heartwarming and hysterical…
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Dwayne Johnson & Chris Evans Christmas Pic ‘Red One’ Stuffing $100M In Global Box Office Bag
Amazon MGM Studios’ Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans Christmas action movie, Red One, is crossing $100M at the global box office tomorrow.
The movie after coming in under weekend expectations in U.S./Canada box with $32.1M, posted a solid Tuesday of $3.1M, +87% over Monday’s $1.66M. That Tuesday take…
Paradigm Hires Sarah Shulman As VP Corporate Communications
EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm has named Sarah Shulman as VP of Corporate Communications.
In her new role, Shulman will oversee all internal and external communications strategies, manage media relations, client publicity, strategic planning and social media for the agency, further elevating Paradigm's brand…
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Paramount Tweaks Theatrical Rollout Of ‘Better Man’ & ‘September 5’ During Awards Season
As awards buzz accumulates for Paramount’s eclectic Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and the ABC Sports Munich Olympics thriller September 5, the studio is tweaking both titles’ theatrical rollout plan.
September 5, which was scheduled to open exclusively on Black Friday, November 29, and expand on…
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