Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation
Barbie
Greta Gerwig has entered the prestigious league of filmmakers whose films have crossed the $1 billion mark in box office earnings, thanks to the summer smash Barbie. The movie stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and has propelled Gerwig into the rankings as the second female director to break global and US Box Office Records.
Barbie and Ahsoka took respective top film and TV prizes at the 61st annual ICG Publicists Awards, which were handed out today at a luncheon at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. See the full list of winners below. Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye took home the International Media Award. Longtime Fleet Street fixture Bamigboye joined Deadline
Oppenheimer‘s Ludwig Göransson won the marquee film prize at the Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards, which were handed out Tuesday night in Los Angeles. The Black Panther Academy Award winner took Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film and also is nominated for the Original Score Oscar next month. Hitmakers Billie Eilish & Finneas and
“I don’t think you’ve can judge that from Barbie not getting nominated,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tonight to Bill Maher when asked by the host if the snub of the blockbuster’s director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie in the Oscars nominations means America is a patriarchy or not. When Maher tried to link
It’s been going on for a while, and it’s been even worse post-pandemic, but the Oscar halo effect for Best Picture nominees has diminished greatly. Even though most of this year’s Best Picture contenders are available in the home, there are three in an exclusive theatrical release which look to make gains by Oscar night,
The 29th annual Critics Choice Awards are set for Sunday, January 14 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Chelsea Handler returns to host the ceremony, which begins at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET and will air live on the East Coast and in Los Angeles on The CW. Los Angeles’ CW affiliate, KTLA-5, will
Globally, including most everywhere overseas, 2023 box office was led by a mix of Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Oppenheimer, curious bedfellows who nevertheless proved that cultural phenomena can come in different forms and set turnstiles spinning. Both the global and international box office saw improvement in 2023 versus 2022 with an estimated
A quick perusal of the reviews indicated tv critics weren’t turned on by what they saw in CBS’s new incarnation of the Golden Globes. Host Jo Koy in particular took some heavy criticism for a generally unfunny and unsuccessful turn in a performance hovering around Ricky Gervais-insult level material but never really getting there. I
Global box office is estimated to have reached $33.9B for 2023, a 30.5% gain on 2022, according to Gower Street Analytics. While this represents continuing worldwide recovery, the figure remains 15% behind the average of the last three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019). Gower Street also recently estimated that, due in part to this year’s strike-impacted release
As my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024. So here’s question worth pondering: Would the film industry be healthier if most of that pruning occurred at the very top? There’s a case to be made.
They faced each other in a box office royale that wound up mushrooming to become the biggest box office weekend of the year. Now, Warner Bros.’ Barbie and Universal’s Oppenheimer will go toe-to-toe at the Golden Globes on January 7. Interestingly enough, coming away from the Golden Globes nominations Monday morning, Barbie bests Oppenheimer by
With awards shows’ ratings dropping annually, many have pinned that on mainstream viewers tuning out because their favorite tentpoles are overlooked in the Best Picture categories. Popular Best Picture candidates and hosts have traditionally been tied to Oscars’ ratings. However, the Golden Globes has continually had respect for popcorn pics between their drama and musical/comedy
EXCLUSIVE: Barbie may have beat her late-summer rival, Oppenheimer, at the box office but in a face-off in homes, the man in the soft-brimmed hat wins — as far as premiere weekends go. Samba TV, which measures viewership from 3M opted-in Smart TVs for at least five-minutes, reports that the Live+5D window for the Universal
AMC Entertainment swung to a profit last quarter and saw revenue jump 45%, besting Wall Street forecasts. CEO Adam Aron found the numbers “quite satisfying.” But, he said, the short-term impacts of the writer’s and actor’s strikes will cause additional and needless challenges for AMC in 2024. Without taking sides as to who is to
Warner Bros. Discovery’s third quarter was mixed with ‘Barbie’ coin and free cash flow beloved by Wall Street offset by sluggish advertising and the impact of the actors’ strike on the one of the industry’s biggest content creators. Streaming, which turned profitable in the first quarter ahead of most rivals, but lost $3 million in
Deadline has compiled a list of the highest-grossing movies at the North American box office for each since 1989, including the most recent winner, 2023’s Barbie. With a few noted exceptions, the list is dominated by superheroes, Star Wars, animation and, of course, Harry Potter. Click on the photo above to launch the photo gallery
‘Barbenheimer‘ was completely unexpected, but the studio behind Barbie gladly leaned in, said Dana Nussbaum, EVP of worldwide marketing for Warner Bros. Pictures, calling the unusual double-feature frenzy one of a few unforseen and welcome twists while rolling out the Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster. “That was absolutely a surprise to us. But one that we found
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