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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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‘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…
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‘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 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…
Justin Baldoni Rep Admits PR Team “Sophomorically Reveled” Against Blake Lively, But Claims No Smear Campaign Despite Sexual Harassment Allegations
Amid allegations by Blake Lively of sexual harassment and retaliation by It Ends With Us co-star/director Justin Baldoni and his crisis PR reps, a publicist for the Wayfarer Studios co-founder now says, “although we were prepared, we didn’t have to do anything over the top to protect our…
‘Hedgehog’ Still Has Upper Claw Over ‘Mufasa’ With $62M+ In Pre-Christmas Frame As ‘Lion King’ Prequel Loses Crown – Sunday AM Box Office Update
SUNDAY AM Writethru: Who knew that hedgehogs were predatory creatures that could spring out of the ground and take down the king of the jungle in full?
Paramount’s $122M production Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the dominant heading into the Christmas frame with a $62M opening, well ahead of Disney’s $200M…
WGA Prohibits Work With Village Roadshow After Not Paying Writers On “Numerous Projects”
UPDATE: The WGA is officially on strike against Village Roadshow Entertainment Group after the production company stiffed multiple writers.
On Saturday, the union announced the stop work order, prohibiting members from business with The Matrix franchise and Mad Max Fury Road banner under Working Rule…
Paramount Advancing Glen Powell’s ‘Running Man’ Earlier In November
Paramount is moving up The Running Man out of the Nov. 21, 2025 corridor which is where it was up against Wicked: For Good, to Nov. 7, 2025.
Paramount will also have access to Imax screens which is a big plus.
This leaves a spot open for a male-skewing film.
They also set a release date…
‘Gladiator II’ Available To Purchase In Home On Christmas Eve
EXCLUSIVE: After a 33-day theatrical window, filmmaker Ridley Scott's Gladiator II is hitting digital on Dec. 24. The movie has amassed well north of $401M at the global box office. This weekend in the states alone during its fifth frame, the Paul Mescal-Denzel Washington-Pedro Pascal gladiator movie is…
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Exhibition Getting More Christmas 2025 Presents As Sony Dates New Jack Black & Paul Rudd ‘Anaconda’
Christmas Day 2025 is bulking up in regards to product. In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Paul Feig directed Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller, The Housemaid and A24 with their Timothee Chalamet ping-pong champ movie Marty Supreme, Sony is darting their reimagined comedy Anaconda starring Paul…
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