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."
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sustained a minor hand injury on Thursday while filming the Netflix series Man on Fire in Mexico City which forced production to pause.
Filming is expected to resume on Monday for the eight-episode drama series which is an adaptation…
SATURDAY AM:What’s the trick to keeping the post-Thanksgiving period alive? Great holdovers from the holiday weekend before.
One of the dullest box office periods historically of the year is not in 2024 with all films grossing $129M, the best this frame has ever seen. That surpasses the previous…
Chile’s Oscar submission this year for International Feature, In Her Place, re-dramatizes an intriguing murder case back in 1955, that of feminist author MarÃa Carolina Geel (Francisca Lewin) who murders her lover during an afternoon tea in the fanciest hotel in town. She was then remanded in a nunnery…
EXCLUSIVE: Thunderbolts star Wyatt Russell is in talks to join Steven Spielberg’s next event movie for Amblin and Universal Pictures. A deal for the actor is very close, we hear. The storyline is being kept under lock and key. Russell joins a booming glitzy bench of thespians in the film including Emily…
Warner Bros. very ambitious Todd Phillips musical sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, will debut on Max on Friday, Dec. 13 with a linear premiere on HBO on Dec. 14 at 8PM EST.
The movie, which saw Joaquin Phoenix reprise his Oscar winning role of the DC villain, also starred Lady Gaga. The first 2019 movie…
EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you that Frankie Shaw’s feature directorial debut, the dark comedy 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, starring Liam Neeson, has nabbed a domestic distribution deal with Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion label, as well as Miramax boarding as financier and producer. In addition, Deadline can show you…
EXCLUSIVE: Woman of the Hour‘s Daniel Zovatto and Independence Day star Bill Pullman are boarding the Black Bear, Esmail Corp, Caviar production Famous which A24 is releasing stateside theatrically.
They join Zac Efron, Bridgerton‘s Phoebe Dynevor, Nicholas Braun, Stephanie Koenig, Debby Ryan, Mekki…
EXCLUSIVE: Arianna Rivas is boarding Scott Derrickson’s Blumhouse/Universal sequel Black Phone 2. The actress joins the original pic’s ensemble of 4x Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies and Miguel Mora, with new addition Oscar nominee Demián Bichir.Â
Black Phone 2…
Creature Commandos, the first DC project under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s revitalized DC Studios, premieres today at Max.
Gunn, who wrote the seven episode season with episodic direction by Matt Peters, tells Crew Call about discovering this comic book about a ragtag bunch of misfits –i.e. G.I…
EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Barrera is no longer with WME.
The actress signed on with talent agency around 2019 as her feature career was taking off with a big role in Jon M. Chu and Warner Bros’ feature take of Broadway musical In the Heights.
The actress remains represented Sugar 23 management…
Numbers are fun as many a math teacher once said, and in a rivalry between Disney’s Moana 2 and Universal’s Wicked, the latter is having the upper hand at the U.S./Canada box office, not just yesterday, but today as well.
Wicked made $5M on Wednesday, and is looking at $4.5M today, -10%. That’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Warner Bros’ Twisters has debuted as streamer Peacock’s biggest Pay 1 film ever in its 14 days on the platform.
The previous biggest Peacock Pay 1 film debut in its first 14 days was Universal’s 7x Christopher Nolan directed Oscar winner, Oppenheimer…