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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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Golden Globes 2025 Party List
When it comes to the Golden Globes after-parties, it’s a new era. Gone are the fraternity- and sorority-spirit rah-rah days when we’d see Paris Hilton getting chased by a gaggle of paparazzi in the Beverly Hilton lobby, with the studios crowding every corner of the hotel.
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‘Mufasa’ Roars On New Year’s Day; ‘Nosferatu’ Already Record For Robert Eggers; ‘A Complete Unknown’ Searchlight’s Best Since Disney-Fox Merger – Box Office Update
New Year’s Day 2025 rang in an estimated $42.9M for all movies, the best result for the holiday post-Covid. New Year’s Day 2022 grossed $40.2M, led by Spider-Man: No Way Home ($23.1M).
January 1 did 33% more than the first day of 2024 — a great new beginning to a box office year that is expected to cl…
2024 U.S. Box Office Finals At $8.7 Billion: How The Studios Stand
Even though there’s still $2 billion-$3 billion missing in the post-Covid domestic box office, there was plenty to be thankful for in 2024, which is coming in at an estimated $8.72B, off 3% from 2023’s $9B. That figure is factored from Comscore and Deadline calculations.
First of all, many were…
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U.S. Box Office Heads For $9 Billion In 2025, Still Far From Pre-Covid Records: What’s An Industry To Do?
The domestic box office is bound to do around $9 billion in 2025, roughly $300 million more than 2024’s estimated final figure of $8.7 billion. If so, it will be the second time that U.S.-Canada ticket sales hit that threshold post-Covid after 2023’s domestic tally of $9 billion.
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‘Sonic’ & ‘Mufasa’ Brawl Over No. 1; ‘Nosferatu’ Feasts $40M+; ‘A Complete Unknown’ Rockin’ $23M+ 5-Day — Post-Christmas Box Office Update
SUNDAY AM EARLY WRITETHRU after Sunday AM Update: Lion and land critter continued to go at like an episode of Mutual Omaha’s Wild Kingdom this weekend with each studio screaming that they’re No. 1. If you look at the standard 3-day weekend, it’s Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with $38M while Disney’s Muf…
‘The Batman’ Sequel Heads To 2027, Tom Cruise & Alejandro G. Iñárritu Pic Sets 2026 Release, ‘Sinners’ & ‘Mickey 17’ Switch Places
Post Christmas Warner Bros is busy making release date changes for next year before it rings in and beyond. The most prolific move is that Matt Reeves’ The Batman sequel is heading from Oct. 2, 2026 to Oct. 1, 2027. Production isn’t scheduled to get started until late summer and with a VFX heavy sequel…
‘Wicked’ To Fly Into Homes Before End Of 2024; Record Breaking Broadway Musical Movie Sets Digital Release
Universal’s Wicked, which will fly past the $400M mark this week at the domestic box office, has set a digital release in homes of Dec. 31. That’s a 40-day theatrical window for Wicked since opening to the best opening ever for a Broadway musical at $112.5M. Wicked is already the highest grossing movie bas…
‘Mufasa’ & ‘Nosferatu’ Bite Back At ‘Sonic’ On Christmas; Lion King Prequel Poised To Win Holiday Stretch – Box Office Update
THURSDAY UPDATE: Mufasa may have entered this holiday season as a lamb, but he remembered who he was on Christmas Day, as Disney’s Lion King prequel rebounded at the box office with $14.7M to Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s $10.3M. But the critter wasn’t just buried by the king of the jungle, but an arthouse…
Christmas Box Office Getting Richer With ‘Nosferatu’, ‘A Complete Unknown’ & More Joining ‘Sonic’-Charged Marketplace; 2024 Domestic Eyes $8.75 Billion Final
A splash of auteurish openings on Christmas Day, with Focus Features’ Nosferatu, Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, A24’s naughty Babygirl and Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside, is poised to send the holiday week’s box office to a potential $280 million tally. That puts it on par with last year’s holiday…
‘Sonic The Hedgehog 3’ Crosses $70M In Four Days – Tuesday Box Office Update
TUESDAY AM UPDATE: Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 cleared $10M on Monday, the first full day of kids and colleges students off from school. This brings the 4-Day on the Jeff Fowler directed threequel to $70.1M, which was the 3-day estimate on the movie back on Friday. So, it just took another day to get…
Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Case Finally Over As Appeal Withdrawn By Prosecutor – Update
UPDATED with appeal withdrawn: More than three years after Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a bullet from Alec Baldwin’s gun on the New Mexico set of the indie Western, the involuntary manslaughter criminal case against the actor has been put to rest.
A month after Special…
‘Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim’ Heading Into Homes After 14-Day Theatrical Window
Well, that was fast. New Line Cinema’s anime feature The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which opened on Dec. 13 to a very low $4.5M, will be available on digital in home on Dec. 27, repping a 14-day theatrical window.
War of the Rohirrim will be available on all participating digital…
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