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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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‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s Francesca Sloane & Hiro Murai On Donald Glover & Maya Erskine Cliffhanger & What Season 2 Might Bring – Crew Call Podcast
Donald Glover and Maya Erskine aren’t returning for season 2 of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith?! What? Is this some sort of contract negotiation standoff? Even after the series’ 16 Emmy nominations including Lead Actor and Lead Actress in a drama?
Hardly, according to co-Creator and EP Francesca…
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Edgar Bronfman’s Paramount Bid Could Land As Early As Tonight As Deadline Looms – The Dish
EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s bid for Paramount Global could come as early as tonight ahead of an 11:59 ET deadline on Aug. 21. That’s when Par’s merger with Skydance will become official if no “superior” offer has emerged.
Skydance and Paramount’s circa $8 billion combination…
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Mohit Ramchandani’s ‘City Of Dreams’ Adds Former Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy & Colleen Camp As EPs
EXCLUSIVE: Former Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is making his first foray into Hollywood joining veteran actor and producer Colleen Camp as EPs on director Mohit Ramchandani's City of Dreams.
The movie, inspired by true events, follows a young boy from Mexico who…
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‘Alien: Romulus’ $41M+ Scores Record Openings For Fede Alvarez & Cailee Spaeny; 2nd Best For Franchise – Sunday Box Office Update
SUNDAY AM UPDATE: So much for the doldrums of August. Between Alien: Romulus and the near $100M-grossing Sony/Wayfarer Studios movie’ It Ends With Us, it’s clear we’ve shaken off all the strike jitters.
Disney continues to keep the shine on its 20th Century Studios brand with their own fingerprints…
‘Alien: Romulus’ Filmmaker Fede Alvarez Teases His Vision For ‘Alien Vs. Predator’
Alien: Romulus filmmaker Fede Alvarez is totally open to doing a revamped Alien vs. Predator movie, but he’ll need a little help.
“Maybe it’s something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan,” Alvarez said. That friend being Dan Tratchenberg who helmed the widely watched Predator 2022 prequel Prey…
‘Megalopolis’ Lionsgate Theatrical Release To Get Boost From Utopia
EXCLUSIVE: Utopia will be teaming with Lionsgate on the stateside theatrical release of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian epic, Megalopolis when it hits theatres on Sept. 27.
Utopia will create and implement specialty marketing, word-of-mouth, and non-traditional theatrical distribution initiatives…
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Blake Lively Dominates Ryan Reynolds Again At Box Office As ‘It Ends With Us’ Takes No. 1 Wednesday Over ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
Wife wins over hubby again at the daily box office as Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us, which she starred in and produced, made $5.5 million Wednesday, compared to Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool & Wolverine, which did $5.3M. It marks the third day in the row that the Sony/Wayfarer Studios romance drama, directed…
Sony Taking ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ With Margot Robbie & Colin Farrell Over Mother’s Day Weekend 2025
On the heels of its box office triumph, It Ends With Us, Sony Pictures has dated their next female event movie with Oscar Margot Robbie in her post-Barbie splash, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, on May 9, 2025.
Also starring Colin Farrell, the pic comes from Imperative Entertainment and 30West and is…
Mexican Comedy ‘El Candidato Honesto’ Sets Early Fall U.S. Release
EXCLUSIVE: Cinematica Media has set the domestic release of the Mexican Comedy, El Candidato Honesto, for Sept. 6.
The movie opened as the top local film in Mexico last weekend to $2M.
Directed by Luis Felipe Ybarra (Hermanos y Detectives, La Noche del Diabilito), El Candidato Honesto tells…
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Set To Pop $65M-$80M Opening As Jenna Ortega-Michael Keaton Sequel Hits Tracking – Early Look Box Office Update
UPDATED: NRG just reported an $80M opening weekend for Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
PREVIOUS: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited Warner Bros sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton-directed haunted comedy starring Michael Keaton, landed on three-week tracking this AM with an outlook of $65M-$75M — but don…
Sony Titles Phoebe Dynevor Shark Thriller From Tommy Wirkola, Sets 2025 Summer Release
Sony has titled the Tommy Wirkola thriller starring Phoebe Dynevor, Beneath the Storm.
The shark thriller will hit theaters next summer on Aug. 1. Also on this release date are the wide entries, The Bad Guys 2 from Universal and DreamWorks Animation and an untitled Warner Bros event feature…
‘Alien: Romulus’ Filmmaker Fede Alvarez’s “Third World” Inspiration For Origins Sci-Fi Pic – Crew Call Podcast
One would think after Ridley Scott’s planned prequel of Alien petered out with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, there’d be no where left in space for the final woman standing franchise to go.
However, Don’t Breathe horror-meister Fede Alvarez has proven with Alien: Romulus, opening this coming weekend, that…
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