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."
The season one finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobidrew a five-day Wednesday through Sunday audience of 1.8 million U.S. households, which is 20% higher than the Wednesday through Sunday five-day pull for The Book of Boba Fett finale, which clocked 1.5M U.S. households.
The data comes from Samba TV, which…
EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse revealed a new motion logo this weekend on their new horror movie, The Black Phone, which overpowered in its 3-day debut to $23.6 million.
The new logo preceded the Scott Derrickson directed, produced and co-written film and it’s the studio’s first ever update to its motion logo.
The logo was…
MONDAY AM: According to data this morning, Warner Bros.’ Elviswins No. 1 this weekend with a $31.1M opening beating the fifth weekend of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverickwhich did $29.6M.
It’s the third No. 1 opening for Warner Bros. YTD after The Batman‘s $134M and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of…
Warning: This interview contains spoilers from HBO’sWestworld episode 401 “The Auguries”.
It’s a whole new Westworld, and, man, does it seem peaceful since Maeve and Caleb took out the predictive-AI, big-think computer Rehoboam last season. Dolores even helped, sacrificing her life.
So, let’s bring everyone up to…
Veteran PR executive Vicky Eguia, who worked on several award winning movie campaigns such as Pan's Labyrinth, La Vie en Rose and Amazon Studios’ Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 48.
Her family revealed the news in a Facebook post early Saturday.
Ho…
Warner Bros’ Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvishas grossed $3.5 million from all previews off 3,400 locations, which includes Tuesday fan events and Thursday night’s showtimes. Meanwhile, Universal/Blumhouse’s The Black Phonetook in $3 million from showtimes that began at 5 p.m. yesterday at 2,800 sites.
It’s expected to be…
Distribution sources are saying there’s a chance that Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverickcould top the box office this weekend in its fifth session with $32 million, a 28% decline week over week.
This will easily send the Tom Cruise movie past the half-billion point at the domestic box office; the pic already is…
Before Legendary Entertainment Godzilla franchise scribe Max Borenstein became attached as showrunner to Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty series, it took co-creator Jim Hecht some years after optioning Jeff Pearlman’s 2014 book, Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the…
UPDATED, 3:13 p.m.: Universal Pictures announced today that Steven Spielberg’s latest film The Fabelmans will open exclusively in L.A. and NY on Friday, November 11—expanding on the film’s previously announced release date of November 23rd.
The film’s competition on the 11th will include Disney and Marvel’s Black Panth…
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Season 1 finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The season finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi wrapped its six-episode arc at what was in its entirety 4 hours and 40 minutes since its debut May 27.
You could essentially say that’s a very long Star Wars…
EXCLUSIVE: Father’s Day weekend was the ideal launchpad for Warner Bros’ Andy Garcia-Gloria Estefan romantic comedy Father of the Bride, which wound up being the biggest HBO Max movie premiere ever in its four days, specifically for a title that was exclusively made for the streaming service.
Father of the Bride was…