Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 came in at the high range of projections, bringingin $155M domestic and a mind-blowing $295M worldwide. That's by far the biggest Hollywood movie opening both stateside and around the world in 2024 to date, blowing past Dune: Part Two ($182.5M) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ($194M).
Inside Out 2's domestic opening is the second best ever for an animated movie, behind Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($182.6M). The final domestic gross on this sequel is being projected by rival distribution bosses to easily exceed half a billion in the end. >>>How Emotions Were Stirred |
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'Blue Beetle' Flies On - Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios are looking to continue telling Blue Beetle stories via an animated series currently in development. Miguel Puga (The Casagrandes) has been working on the project since early this year and will serve as the project’s showrunner and director with Cristian Martinez (Women of the Movement) set as writer. >>>Will Build On Film's Lore Basic Crafts Keep On Truckin' - The Hollywood Basic Crafts have officially wrapped the first week of negotiations on a new three-year agreement with the studios. In a memo to members, the unions said more talks with the AMPTP are set for next week. >>>Chipping Away At A Deal
Searching For The Jewish Soul Of "Hollywoodland" - The documentary at the heart of Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures tells us that Hollywood’s Jews kept Jewishness out of their pictures. Maybe so. But the underlying impulse of American movies — that empathy with those who are down and habitually struggling to get back up — is Biblical. >>> Michael Cieply's Take
New Republic - Republic Pictures snagged two more movies, taking global rights to Saoirse Ronan-starrer Bad Apples and international rights to horror rom-com Heart Eyes. Paramount revived the historic label in 2023 with a remit to acquire third-party fare. Paramount’s Chief Content Licensing Officer, Dan Cohen — also President of Republic Pictures — broke down the label's strategy for Deadline. >>>Interview
Mendes Tunes Up 'Trilogy' - Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London. It’s quite a thing to bring the play, considered a modern classic, back into central London when it just played a 16-week season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, running until May of last year. >>>Baz Bamigboye's Column
Anthony Mackie: The Film That Lit My Fuse - Anthony Mackie has been on a steady course to a career peak where he will carry his first major Marvel film playing the title character in Captain America: Brave New World. In Deadline's video series The Film That Lit My Fuse, Mackie reveals the unexpected inspirations — Keenen Ivory Wayans was a big one — that led him to embrace the risks that have gotten him here. >>> Watch |
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When you get the opportunity to interview Rob Reiner and Albert Brooks together it is indeed a special occasion. Reiner has directed and appears with Brooks in a documentary (Reiner's first) entitled Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, which is available on HBO and MAX. Deadline's conversation with the duo is not only hilarious in parts, but also eye-opening and full of some very surprising revelations, including Brooks explaining how he and Stanley Kubrick became friends. >>>Watch |
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Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller is set to star in a new modern update of the classic Paramount drama An Officer and a Gentleman.
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Jacob Rodriguez (Tell Me Lies) has landed the male lead in Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado (wt), the new live-action family film being produced for Nickelodeon and Paramount+ by Nickelodeon Studios.
Station 19 alumna Danielle Savre, who recently wrapped her seven-season run on the Shondaland series, has been tapped for a key recurring role on the second season of NBC's Found. |
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More News 📽️ China’s Film Bureau has approved a July 26 release for Deadpool & Wolverine. Disney/Marvel were not specific on cuts, but we understand the trims made to the Shawn Levy-directed D&W are minimal and due to violence, blood and gore, and language. ⚖️ Four years after Bad Boys original author George Gallo first went to court over copyright to the lucrative Will Smith and Martin Lawrence franchise, the scribe and Columbia Pictures finally settled their differences.
⚕️ Gordon Ramsay posted online that he’s “lucky to be here” after crashing his bicycle in Connecticut. Ramsay said he’s “doing ok," but emphasized that he is "most thankful for my helmet that saved my life."
💬 Matthew Broderick and Judd Apatow went down memory lane at the penultimate evening of the Tribeca Festival. The duo discussed The Cable Guy, which Apatow produced and Broderick co-starred in. Remembering the headlines about Carrey's $20 million payday for the movie, Broderick mused, “I got a Swiss cheese sandwich."
🦚 NBC has picked up 5 more episodes of St. Denis Medical, bringing the Season 1 order for the single-camera comedy to 18 episodes.
🏀 Longtime TNT broadcaster and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley announced after Game 4 of the NBA Finals that he planned to retire after the 2024-25 season. |
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On the Radar
Mon - Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity begins; Eddie Murphy on Fallon
Tue - Kevin Costner on Fallon
Wed - Juneteenth
Sun - Orphan Black: Echoes S1 premiere |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Ron Simons, who produced such acclaimed Broadway plays as Thoughts of a Colored Man (2021) and the 2022 revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, died Wednesday. The four-time Tony Award winner was 63. 🕯️ Tony Mordente, who made his mark on Broadway as a dancer and choreographer, played the hot-headed Jet named Action in the 1961 film West Side Story and later segued into a long and busy career as a director of TV, died June 11 following a brief illness. He was 88. 🕯️ Nick Mavar, who appeared on Discovery Channel’s reality franchise Deadliest Catch, died Thursday in Naknek, AK, Bristol Bay Police Chief Jeffrey Eldie confirmed to Deadline. He was 59. 🕯️ Kevin Brophy, whose credits include the TV series Lucan and films Hell Night and The Long Riders , died of cancer on May 11 at the age of 70. 🕯️ Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries |
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Golden Girls - Listening to her daughter, Vivienne, paid off for Angelina Jolie. Because of the teen, the Oscar-winning actress just took home her first Tony for producing The Outsiders: A New Musical. Jolie took the stage Sunday at the Tony Awards ceremony in New York with Vivienne, who had encouraged her mom to see a staging of the musical in La Jolla before it went to Broadway. Producer Matthew Rego gave a specific shout-out to Jolie, one of several who made the musical a reality, when he accepted the Tony for Best Musical. |
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