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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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Jon M. Chu Misses ‘Wicked’ LA Premiere For Birth Of Baby Daughter – Update
Update: Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu’s daughter arrived late on Saturday night while the L.A. premiere to his latest Universal feature musical was rocking on at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
The director shared a photo of his newly arrived daughter on social.
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‘Venom: The Last Dance’ $16M, ‘Christmas Pageant’ & ‘Heretic’ In Fierce Battle For No. 2 With $11M+ Apiece — Veterans Day Box Office
SUNDAY AM: The top three films — Venom: The Last Dance, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Heretic — in a Veterans Day weekend sans a major tentpole, overperformed this weekend.
The biggest eyebrow raiser is that Lionsgate/Kingdom Story’s Best Christmas Pageant Ever had a better than anticipated…
‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Hopes To Roar $66M+ Opening Or More – Box Office Early Look
The six-week-out projection for Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King has hit via Quorum tracking service, which sees it at a $59 million-$66 million opening when the Barry Jenkins-directed prequel hits cinemas on December 20.
Keep in mind that the fire-breathing campaigns for Mufasa and Paramount’s Sonic Th…
Shakira Is Back As Gazelle In ‘Zootopia 2’
Three-time Grammy and 14-time Latin Grammy winner Shakira is coming back as the voice of Gazelle in Disney’s Zootopia 2. The news was just announced at D23 Brazil.
Shakira also sang one of the 2016’s movie’s signature tunes, “Try Everything,” which went triple platinum.
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‘Ice Age 6’ Is Happening With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah & More Back; Sixthquel Getting A Theatrical Release – Update
UPDATED: Disney and 20th Century Animation announced Friday at D23 Brazil that Ice Age 6 is happening. The sixthquel will get a theatrical release. The original franchise was created by Blue Sky Studios, which Disney acquired through the 20th Century Fox merger, later shuttering the Oscar-winning…
Paramount Co-CEO Chris McCarthy Feels Good About Paramount+’s Position “To Remain A Standalone”
“We feel good about our position and our ability to remain a standalone.”
That was Paramount Co-CEO Chris McCarthy’s update on the status of Paramount+, delivered on this morning’s third-quarter earnings call. His comment came after an analyst asked whether a strategic partner was still being sought…
Lionsgate Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson On Studio’s New AI Deal: “Our Filmmakers Are Using It Already”
The Lionsgate earnings call this afternoon would not have been proper without addressing the elephant in the room: the studio’s deal with AI research firm Runway.
Announced on September 18, it was a first-of-its-kind partnership between a major Hollywood studio and Runway, which would create and…
Scott Adkins Joins Matt Damon & Ben Affleck’s Netflix Crime Thriller ‘RIP’
EXCLUSIVE: Count John Wick: Chapter 4 actor Scott Adkins in on Joe Carnahan’s movie RIP at Netflix.
RIP follows a team of Miami cops whose trust begins to fray when they discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything for the…
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Lionsgate CEO On ‘Borderlands’ Bombing: “Everything That Could Go Wrong Did Go Wrong”
When it came to the bombing of Borderlands, among other late summer and fall releases, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer made no bones about emphasizing culpa nostra.
“On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and…
Incoming Thanksgiving Tidal Wave At The Box Office: ‘Moana 2’ Surfing To $135M Holiday Record Opening
As we told you recently, Disney’s Moana 2 is heading to the best five-day opening ever at the Thanksgiving box office. We gave the six-weekend projection from Quorum, and this morning tracking service NRG — which reports three-weekend-out forecasts — is saying the Polynesian princess sequel is going to…
Angel Studios Sets ‘Bethlehem’ From ‘Sound Of Freedom’s Alejandro Monteverde; Sam Worthington, Ben Mendelsohn, Gael García Bernal & Deva Cassel Star
EXCLUSIVE: Sound of Freedom and Cabrini filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde will reteam for a third time with Angel Studios on the epic Bethlehem, which re-imagines one of the most infamous stories in history, Herod's slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem as a profound spiritual thriller.
In the movie…
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‘Alien: Romulus’ Sets Hulu Streaming Date Prior To Thanksgiving
The second highest grossing Alien movie in box office history, Alien: Romulus, will hit Hulu on Nov. 21. That’s a 98 day theatrical window, which is pretty robust and par for Disney since returning to windows post former CEO Bob Chapek. Pic’s digital release was on Oct. 15. The title will hit DVD and…
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