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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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‘Barbie’ & ‘Oppenheimer’ To Rattle The Globe With Combined $260M+ Opening – Box Office Preview
At a time when Hollywood is suffering through historic dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the motion picture industry is poised to see an enormous weekend at the box office with Warner Bros/Mattel’s long-awaited toy feature adaptation Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s three-hour World War II-era drama Opp…
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How The SAG-AFTRA Strike Could Upend This Year’s Movie Release Schedule & Box Office
On the edge of what is bound to be the domestic box office’s third $200M+ weekend thanks to Barbie and Oppenheimer, the motion picture industry’s fret is whether the great post-pandemic moviegoing rebound is about to screech to a halt due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and actors prohibited from promoting.
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SAG-AFTRA Can Bar Non-Member Social Media Influencers From Guild Admission If They Promote For Studios During Strike
If you’re a social media influencer and want to take work promoting a film or TV series for a studio, but you’re not a SAG-AFTRA member — you might want to think twice.
SAG-AFTRA has issued rules during the strike for social media influencers, and even if you’re not a member of the guild, but one…
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July 18, 2023
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‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Sets Disney+ Premiere Date After Long Theatrical Window
Talk about respecting a theatrical window: Disney has set a Disney+ global premiere date for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 of Aug. 2, that’s 90 days after the pic’s theatrical release of May 5.
While Disney got a lot of slack during CEO Bob Chapek’s era for executing theatrical day-and-date releases…
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Sets Franchise 5-Day US Opening Record With $80M – Sunday AM Update
SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU — after Saturday PM update…Facts are facts, and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One set a 5-day opening domestic record for the franchise with $80M. Paramount is calling the global opening here at $235M, read Nancy’s report here. Indiana Jones and the Dia…
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Seeing $78M 5-Day US, $240M WW: Why Sequel Is In Better Position Than ‘Indy’ – Box Office Update
UPDATE SATURDAY AM: In the wake of the older-skewing, very expensive Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny stumbling at the box office with an $83.8M Friday-Tuesday domestic start, sources have called upon me to evaluate a similarly priced, older dude franchise sequel at around $300M. That’s this…
‘Dune: Part Two’ Skipping San Diego Comic-Con Due To SAG-AFTRA Strike; ‘Abbott Elementary’, ‘Jury Duty’ & ‘Wheel Of Time’ Among Other Cancellations – Update
San Diego Comic-Con Hall H had been reserved two Saturdays from now for a presentation by Legendary, which I hear was to strut out Dune: Part Two and the studio’s next Monsterverse movie. However, that’s not happening now due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
UPDATE: ABC’s Abbott Elementary has also canceled…
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July 18, 2023
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SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Says Union & AMPTP “Pretty Far Apart On AI”; Studios “Concerned About The Immediate Impact” Of Strike
After AMPTP called their AI proposal to SAG-AFTRA yesterday “groundbreaking”, the actors’ union National Executive Director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, still begs to differ.
“We’re pretty far apart on AI,” said Crabtree-Ireland, expounding on his argument yesterday that the AMPTP…
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SAG-AFTRA Strike
July 18, 2023
July 18, 2023
Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Timothy Olyphant, Sean Astin, Allison Janney, Ben Schwartz & Michelle Hurd Join Thousands Of Actors On First Day Of SAG-AFTRA Strike
It's Day 1 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 74 of the WGA strike.
The stars are out in force on the first day of the actors strike and, as Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur said, "Now a thousand very attractive people have shown up and joined the lines, it's an enormous amount of wind in our…
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July 18, 2023
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TIFF “Will Continue Planning” This Year’s Fest; Venice In “Wait And See” Mode As SAG-AFTRA Strike Begins
With the much expected SAG-AFTRA strike announced Thursday, fall film festivals are in wait-and-see mode as to whether it’s a season sans stars.
“We will continue planning for this year's festival with the hope of a swift resolution in the coming weeks,” the Toronto Film Festival told Deadline…
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July 18, 2023
July 18, 2023
‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Red Carpet Premiere Canceled Due To SAG-AFTRA Strike
The red carpet premiere of Paramount+ series Special Ops: Lioness is not moving forward due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
“In light of today's news of an official SAG strike, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the red carpet premiere of Special Ops: Lioness, planned for Tuesday, July 18,” read…
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July 18, 2023
July 18, 2023
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher Defends Kim Kardashian Dolce & Gabbana Italy Show: “It Was Absolute Work…Walking In Heels On Cobblestones”
Amid the bad optics of appearing on social media with Kim Kardashian at a Dolce & Gabbana show in Puglia, Italy as SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP contract talks went down to the wire, the actors’ president Fran Drescher, along with the guild’s National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, …
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July 18, 2023
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