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."
Sony is looking to bring the underserved female moviegoing audience to cinemas this weekend with Apple Original Films’ $100M Channing Tatum-Scarlett Johansson stylish romantic comedy Fly Me to the Moon.
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in…
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation and Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One will show up big at San Diego Comic-Con this year with an all-star panel set for Thursday, July 25 at 11:45am PST.
Showing off exclusive footage and chatting up the Sept. 20 theatrical release in Hall H will be stars…
“There might have been other scenarios that could have played out in other ways, but this seems to be currently the scenario for the moment.”
Those were Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman’s thoughts tonight when Deadline asked him at the NYC premiere of Apple’s Fly Me to t…
Scarlett Johansson says work is progressing on Just Cause, Amazon’s upcoming thriller limited series, based on John Katzenbach's 1992 novel, in which she stars and executive produces.
“It’s coming along…it’s being written,” she told Deadline at the New York City premiere of her new movie Fly Me To Th…
Sony Pictures Entertainment has upped Louise Heseltine to SVP, Corporate Communications in the Motion Picture Group.
Heseltine will continue to report to Tahra Grant, EVP, Chief Communications Officer, who was promoted earlier this year.
Heseltine joined the Culver City, CA lot in 2020 as…
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is planning another big splash for its hit series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power at San Diego Comic-Con.
This year at SDCC, ahead of the series’ Season 2 premiere on August 29, the streamer will host an exclusive press and influencer reception by invitation only on…
For some in Hollywood, there’s a sigh of relief in Skydance’s $8 billion takeover of Paramount: A legacy motion picture studio and entertainment conglom will largely remain standing. This versus if Sony had actually won Paramount, in which case we’d be looking at a potential reduction in theatrical…
Paramount Global controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, along with the conglom’s co-CEO troika, waved pom-poms Sunday night to staff about the upside to Skydance’s $8 billion takeover of the storied studio, CBS network and Viacom cable networks.
Already, employees are sweating over the looming $500…
Following the news Sunday night of Skydance Media’s $8 billion deal to take over Paramount Global, the current Paramount co-CEO troika of Brian Robbins, George Cheeks and Chris McCarthy issued a statement to staff that “until the transaction closes, it’s business as usual.”
The transaction isn’t…
David Ellison’s Skydance Media has gained a key approval vote for the company’s proposed acquisition of Paramount Global controlling shareholder National Amusements Inc. after seven months of talks.
The deal was blessed Sunday by a special committee of Paramount’s board of directors, a person…
SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Saturday AM Update:Despicable Me 4 bounced back from where we saw it earlier this weekend for a $27M Friday and $26.8M Saturday, which will result in a $75M 3-day and $122.6M 5-day.
Exclaimed Universal Domestic Distribution President Jim Orr, “What a tremendous debut for…
Looking to lasso a potential Top Gun: Maverick at the box office in the next Joseph Kosinski directed movie, Apple and Warner Bros have dropped the first teaser to the Brad Pitt-starring F1 roughly a year before its June 25, 2025 offshore release (June 27 U.S./Canada).
In the trailer, Pitt’s F1…