‘Frozen 2’ An Ice Machine, Spilling $739M Global As Elsa Reigns Overseas – International Box Office.... Refresh for latest…: The Frozen 2 blizzard continued at the global and international box office this weekend with the Disney sequel now minting $738.6M worldwide and $451M overseas through Sunday. The offshore hold was -38 for a $163.8M weekend, and Els...

Wattpad Studios Sets Adaptations Of ‘What Happened That Night’ And The Hound’ As Part Of New Development Fund.... Wattpad Studios is developing the features What Happened That Night and The Hound. Both titles come from their library of Wattpad stories and are part of Wattpad’s Development Fund which finances early development for select TV and film projects. The n...

TCM Reinvents Its Canceled Live Classic Film Festival Tonight As Judy Garland’s ‘A Star Is Born’ Kicks Off A Virtual Weekend.... Since 2010 when Turner Classic Movies first had the idea to go live with their own Hollywood film festival celebrating the classics that make the basic cable channel that a true outpost of sanity for film lovers of all stripes, I have religiously attended...

Sherri Shepherd Will Join Fox’s ‘Dish Nation’ As Co-Host This Summer.... EXCLUSIVE: Sherri Shepherd, longtime former co-host of The View, is set to join Fox syndicated series Dish Nation as co-host in August. She had served guest stints on the entertainment show in November and December of 2019. “Dish Nation has been a house...

Studio71 Hires Former Fulwell73 & Endemol Shine Executive Joe Varley As UK Development Chief.... Red Arrow Studios-backed Studio71 has hired Joe Varley as its first UK director of development. He joins from Brown Bred Productions, which he co-founded in 2018 after previous roles at Endemol Shine Group’s Zeppotron, All3Media’s Objective Media Grou...

Small Movies, Big Profits: 2019 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament.... When Deadline runs its Most Valuable Blockbuster film profitability countdown each year, readers often ask about certain films that make big bucks but don’t make the list because they don’t hit the minimum on domestic grosses. Here are five pics that...

‘Motherland: Fort Salem’: Lyne Renee Upped To Series Regular For Season 2.... We’ll be seeing more of General Alder on the upcoming second season of Motherland: Fort Salem. Lyne Renee, who recurred in nine episodes as the character, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the Freeform thriller drama series. Renee’s...

Come Monday, They’re Off And Running In The Film Academy’s Annual Board Race.... Come 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Monday, they will be off and running, those would-be candidates for 17 open slots on the 54-member Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On Friday, the Academy notified members that...

WME Lit Agent Mike Fera Joins Kaplan/Perrone As Manager.... EXCLUSIVE: Former WME motion picture literary agent Mike Fera has joined Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment as a manager. He starts today. Fera was among a number of seasoned WME agents in play amid the recent cuts at the Hollywood agency. He met with multiple...

Norway’s Top Exhibitor On How They Successfully Re-Opened Cinemas Following COVID-19 Closures.... EXCLUSIVE: This weekend saw Norway become one of the first European countries to allow cinemas to re-open after it began to lift its coronavirus lockdown. Eager eyes were trailed on the Scandi nation, with exhibitors keen to find out if audiences would re...

Jason Blum Reassures Vassar Grads During COVID-19 Times: “Don’t Let Moments Of Failure And Frustration Distract You”.... EXCLUSIVE: The near future for 2020 college graduates is very much akin to a horror movie filled with an immense amount of uncertainty. They leave the great halls of knowledge into the biggest pandemic of the last 100 years, with 43 states currently seein...

‘Served! With Jade Thirlwall’: MTV Plans Online Series With Little Mix Star To Celebrate Global Pride.... MTV International has ordered a self-filmed online series with Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall as part of ViacomCBS’ plans to celebrate Global Pride. Served! With Jade Thirlwall will feature the singer competing with celebrity drag queens, such as RuPaul...

How Disney Turned ‘Frozen 2’ Into Biggest Global Toon Debut Of All-Time With $350M+, November Animated Pic U.S. Record $130M.... 4th Update, Sunday FINAL: Both in the U..S/Canada and worldwide, Disney’s Frozen 2 is the highest grossing animated pic of all-time. Disney is reporting $350.2M worldwide, which bests Toy Story 4‘s global record of $240.9M from June. It also blows...

Haystack TV Launches Live, Interactive News Ticker On Its Roku Streaming App.... EXCLUSIVE: News aggregator Haystack TV has launched an on-screen ticker on its Roku app, adapting a staple feature of live, linear news networks to the streaming era. The “Newsline” crawl emulates the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen o...

Well Go USA Acquires Lech Majewski’s Surrealist Drama ‘Valley Of The Gods’.... Well Go USA has acquired the North American rights to Lech Majewski’s Valley of the Gods. The company is set to release the surrealist drama starring Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin) and John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich, Death o...

Friday Ratings: ‘Shark Tank’ Season 11 Finale Wins The Evening’s Demo Wars, ABC Takes Network Crown.... Business reality show Shark Tank swam off into the sunset Friday night, but managed an overall victory in the demo wars before departing. The season finale came in at a solid 0.7 and was highlighted by a pitch from The Mad Optimists, a brand that makes al...

‘DogMan’s Caleb Landry Jones On Working With Luc Besson & A Pack Of Pups + His Theory On How To End The Actors Strike – Venice.... EXCLUSIVE: Caleb Landry Jones has built an eclectic resumé since he first appeared as Boy on Bike in 2007’s No Country for Old Men. His diverse credits include X-Men: First Class, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Get Out and Nitram, Justin Kur...

‘Joker’ Makes Serious Profit As No. 4 In Deadline’s 2019 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament.... When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and anci...

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chairman Joe Drake “Bullish” About Moviegoers Returning To Cinemas.... Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chairman Joe Drake continued to emphasize the studio’s commitment to theatrical today, telling analysts on today’s 4Q earnings call that “we believe that people are anxious to get out of the house and do things” foll...

Indies Opine On National Cinema Day As ‘Golda’, ‘Bottoms’ & ‘The Hill’ Hit Theaters – Specialty Preview.... It’s an unusual theatrical weekend as the second National Cinema Day rolls out Sunday with $4 tickets for all shows and formats at participating theaters — the bulk of the nation's circuits big and small. The event was announced Monday with a dedicate...

Aviron Pictures Imploding As Layoffs & Lawsuits Cloud Future On Eve Of Sundance.... EXCLUSIVE: As we step foot on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival today, we’ve confirmed that 12 people of the near 30-person staff at Aviron Pictures were pinkslipped on Friday and issued their final paychecks. Domestic theatrical distribution pre...

‘El Mago Pop’ And ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Take Final Bows To Big Numbers – Broadway Box Office.... Good Night, Oscar, the Oscar Levant bio-play starring Sean Hayes, and El Mago Pop, the Broadway debut of Spanish illusionist Antonio Díaz, ended their limited Broadway engagements on upswings last week, with the former selling out for its best week take...

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Releases Second Trailer, Casting Doubt On July 17 Release.... UPDATED: Christopher Nolan’s eagerly awaited film Tenet dropped its second trailer today on Fortnite, but it failed to list an opening date at the end, reading “coming to theaters”. Essentially that July 17 is in doubt because New York and Los Ang...

Utopia Acquires Pierre Cardin Documentary ‘House of Cardin’.... Utopia has secured North American rights to House of Cardin, a documentary about the life and work of legendary fashion designer and entrepreneur Pierre Cardin. Directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes, the doc had its premiere at last year’s Venic...

Hot Package: Awkwafina, Karen Gillan Reteam For ‘Shelly’; Jude Weng Directing, Ian Bryce Producing.... EXCLUSIVE: Even though production hasn’t started back up, packages are being gobbled up quickly, and here’s one that ought to sell fast. Jumanji: The Next Level‘s Awkwafina and Karen Gillan are attached to reteam in Shelly, an action-comedy script b...

Quiver Distribution Lands Action Thriller ‘Money Plane’ Starring Adam Copeland & Kelsey Grammer.... EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has secured the North American distribution rights to Money Plane, the Andrew Lawrence-helmed action starring WWE Superstar Adam “Edge” Copeland, Denise Richards, Thomas Jane, and Emmy award winner Kelsey Grammer. Co-wri...

Los Angeles Police Attacked By George Floyd Protesters In Downtown Melee.... Los Angeles Police were involved in physical confrontations tonight while attempting to detain some protesters in downtown L.A. during the third night of marches to decry the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd. Local news showed police chasing some pro...

California Governor Newsom Not Reopening Movie Theaters Any Time Soon.... In an announcement today, California Gov. Gavin Newsom deemed movie theaters to be part of a stage 3 opening in the ultimate six-prong easing of COVID-19 at-home restrictions, meaning they’d be able to open “months, not weeks” in the future. Movie t...

How ‘Spies In Disguise’, ‘Little Women’ & ‘Uncut Gems’ Are Shaping Up At Christmas B.O.; ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Opening Still Around $200M.... The last wide entries of 2019 hit tracking today with projections for the 5-day Christmas holiday as follows: 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky’s animated feature Spies in Disguise ($23M-$30M), Sony’s Greta Gerwig directed Little Women ($19M-$35M), and A24’...

L.A. County Public Health Confirms 46 New Deaths, 1,155 New Cases Of COVID-19.... The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health today confirmed 46 new deaths and 1,155 new cases of COVID-19. To date, Public Health has identified 58,234 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County, and a total of 2,489 deaths. Ninety-...

Lynn Shelton Remembered By Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Ava DuVernay.... Friends and former collaborators are remembering writer, director, and producer Lynn Shelton. The indie filmmaker died Friday at age 54. The groundbreaking director was best known for her films Humpday,Your Sister's Sister (2011), Outside In (2017) and la...

John Cho, Randall Park, Lisa Ling, Kal Penn And More Join Act To Change’s Virtual Anti-Racism Event.... The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) anti-bullying non-profit group Act to Change is hosting “United We Stand”, a virtual event calling for the end of racism and xenophobia. The livestream is set for May 18 at 4pm ET/1pm PT and will feature...

‘Helter Skelter’ Trailer: Epix’s Six-Part Charles Manson Docuseries Airs June 14.... Epix has dropped the trailer for Helter Skelter, its six-part docuseries about Charles Manson and his crimes. Just over 50 years after what came to be known as “The Tate–LaBianca murders,” Epix has produced the “most comprehensive” onscreen expl...

CBS News Layoffs Trigger Farewell Notices, Words Of Praise For Longtime Reporters.... CBSViacom’s layoffs this week also impacted CBS News and CBS-owned affiliates, the latest fallout to hit news media amid the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs were said to make up a single digit percentage of the news division — reportedly 5%, or arou...

Neon’s ‘The Lodge’ Makes Chilling Debut, O-Scope Releases Horace B. Jenkins’ Long Lost Drama ‘Cane River’ – Specialty B.O. Preview.... As Neon rides the awards-season wave with Bong Joon Ho’s cinematic masterpiece Parasite, it isn’t stopping with delivering genre titles that speak to the brand. This weekend, its will debut its chilling thriller The Lodge directed by Severin Fiala an...

‘Vida’ Creator Tanya Saracho On Game Changer Latinx Series’ Final Season, Love, Legacy & Building It Right.... "I would love to know Vida has been the entry point to so many people, because I think we built it right," says Tanya Saracho of the Latinx series she created that begins its third and final season tonight on Starz at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT. "You know, my big mo...

‘Baroness Von Sketch Show’ To End With Season 5 On CBC & IFC.... The end is in sight for all-female sketch series Baroness Von Sketch Show. Co-creators Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen announced today that their acclaimed series will return for its fifth and final season this fall. T...

Sony Chief Tony Vinciquerra Speaks To Staff On George Floyd Killing And Ensuing Protests.... Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman/CEO Tony Vinciquerra has become the latest Hollywood exec to address the shocking death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, and the ensuing rioting that has destroyed businesses in major cities...

Queen’s Brian May Discloses Heart Attack Details, Says “Ready To Rock”.... Don't stop him now. Queen's Brian May has revealed a big scare from what he termed a "small heart atttack," but is on the mend and "ready to rock." In an Instagram post, the co-founder of Queen and a collaborator on 2018's smash Freddie Mercury biopic Bo...

WarnerMedia Names Richard Tom CTO As Jeremy Legg Shifts To New AT&T Role.... WarnerMedia has named Richard Tom as its chief technology officer, reuniting the onetime Hulu CTO and Vessel co-founder with former colleague Jason Kilar, who is now CEO of WarnerMedia. Jeremy Legg, who oversaw last week’s launch of streaming service HB...

California Coronavirus Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Relaxing Some Restrictions For Reopening; Sports, In-Store Retail Could Be Next.... Citing a trend of decreasing hospitalizations and ICU patients due to the coronavirus, California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state’s stay-at-home order could be drastically modified in the next few weeks if the trends continue. He rolled out a new “s...

Daniel Loeb’s Hedge Fund Third Point Buys 1.4M Disney Shares.... Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point LLC, known in media circles for its activist crusade to shake up Sony Corp., has bought 1.425 million shares in the Walt Disney Co., according to an SEC filing Friday. The purchase is a tiny fraction of the media gia...

Tribeca And YouTube Join Forces For ‘We Are One’ Online Film Festival With Lineup Fed By Cannes, Venice, Toronto And More.... With the film festival calendar thrown into chaos by COVID-19, Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube are teaming up to present a 10-day streaming event drawing from 20 global fests, including Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Venice. The online showcase, dubbed We...

‘God’s Own Country’ Director Says Film Has Been “Censored” On Amazon Prime; Streamer Responds – Update.... UPDATED, 10:08 AM: Amazon has moved to clarify reports Wednesday that Brit indie flick God's Own Country had sexual scenes censored on its service, following tweets sent by the film’s director expressing his surprise at discovering the cuts. The streame...

Lynn Shelton Dies: ‘Humpday’ And ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ Director Was 54.... Lynn Shelton, a director, writer and producer known for her work on Humpday and more recently the miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, died Friday in Los Angeles, a rep for Shelton told Deadline. She was 54. Shelton passed away from complications of a prev...

Off Broadway’s Obie Awards Postponed Due To National Unrest: “Not A Time For Celebration Or Diversion”.... Saying that now is no time for “celebration or diversion,” the presenters of the annual Obie Awards for excellent in Off and Off Off Broadway theater, have postponed this year’s virtual event. "Our hearts are heavy and our souls are weary. This is a...

‘The High Note’ Review: Tracee Ellis Ross And Dakota Johnson’s Music- And Female-Driven Film Strikes Right Feel-Good Chords.... Director Nisha Ganatra scored points with me for delivering a smart, female-driven comedy last year in Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. It was set in the showbiz sector of late-night television talk shows but focused on two women, very dif...

Chris Livesay Joins CBS News As Correspondent Based In Rome.... Chris Livesay has joined the staff of CBS News as a foreign correspondent based in Rome, where he already has been reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Livesay has previously reported around the world for outlets including NBC News, PBS NewsHour,...

Showtime Sets Timothy Leary Docu From Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Errol Morris, Reveals First Look.... Showtime Documentary Films unveiled a new docu feature from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (Wormwood, The Fog of War) that will spotlight the polarizing psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary. The docu, which currently has the working title of A Fi...

Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim’s Abso Lutely Productions And Doing Things Media Enter Development Deal For Internet Series ‘All Gas No Brakes’.... EXCLUSIVE: Doing Things Media and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's production company Abso Lutely Productions have entered a development deal to create a television series based on internet series All Gas No Brakes. Doing Things Media is known for creati...