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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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Demi Moore’s ‘The Substance’ World Premiere Gets A 13-Minute Ovation At Cannes
Demi Moore made her debut in the Cannes Film Festival's official selection Sunday evening with the competition title The Substance. The much-anticipated blood-splattered horror thriller from French director Coralie Fargeat was met with 13-minute ovation, the longest for a title so far at this year’s…
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‘IF’ Rises To $34M+, ‘Strangers: Chapter 1’ Strong At Near $12M, ‘Back To Black’ Goes Belly-Up At $2.8M – Sunday Box Office Update
SUNDAY AM, 5:36 AM: Saturdays were good to IF lifting the pic to a now $34M opening after a $13.6M Saturday, up 32% against $10.3M Friday and previews. That means that A CinemaScore word of mouth is working. I’m hearing tracking was over its skis predicting it at $40M, and presales all along indicated it…
Cate Blanchett On Political G7 Satire ‘Rumours’: “It’s Not Trying To Be An Important Film With A Message” – Cannes
A glowing brain, world leaders lost in the woods, a U.S President with a glaring British accent, oh, and bog men — mummies whose manhood has been severed and wrapped around their necks. Such are the sundries of Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s political comedy Rumours here at Cannes.
The film…
‘Emilia Pérez’ Star Karla Sofía Gascón On How Movie Champions Trans Rights: “We’re Just Normal People” – Cannes
You know a movie has left a big impression at Cannes when the applause explodes in the press room as the cast files in. Such was the case Sunday morning for Emila Pérez.
Jacques Audiard’s latest movie follows Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an overqualified and undervalued lawyer who goes from repping guilty…
Focus Features Takes Worldwide Rights To Yorgos Lanthimos’ Next Movie ‘Bugonia’ With Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons – Cannes
Focus Features has taken worldwide rights to Yorgos Lanthimos' latest project Bugonia, the remake of South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet, which sees the Greek director reunite yet again with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. The trio are here in Cannes with their Competition title Kinds of Kindnes…
NBCU’s Donna Langley On Impact Of Possible Sony-Paramount Merger: “There Will Be Further Consolidation…It’s Sad” – Cannes
As fears stack up in the industry over a possible Sony and Paramount merger, subtracting one major motion picture studio from the industry, The Chairman of NBCU Studio Group and Chief Content Officer Donna Langley at a Cannes Kering talk weighed in on what that impact will be.
“Consolidation is…
Emma Stone On Physicality In ‘Kinds Of Kindness’: “I’m A Feminist And I Like Working With Yorgos Lanthimos” – Cannes
Everyone wanted to know about the nudity and bawdy sex scenes in Searchlight’s Kinds of Kindness at the pic’s riotous Cannes Film Festival press conference Saturday but politely referred to it as “physicality.”
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest, an anthology of three short films, covers plenty of off-kilter…
‘Kinds Of Kindness’, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Latest, Gets Six-Minute Ovation At Cannes Premiere
Following four Oscar wins just a few months ago for his Emma Stone-starrer Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos unveiled his latest feature at Cannes’ Grand Theatre Lumiere this evening. His three-hour absurdist anthology Kinds of Kindness, also starring Stone as well as Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, reaped a…
Chris Hemsworth On How Shooting ‘Furiosa’ Stacked Up To A Marvel Movie – Cannes Studio
“There’s a similar passion,” says Chris Hemsworth on how the production of George Miller’s stunt-filled Mad Max movies stack up in their production to Marvel films.
“It’s like (what) Kevin Feige has to those films, a depth of knowledge and importance of it all, it feels very familiar,” says the…
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Francis Ford Coppola Says “Men Like Donald Trump Are Not At The Moment In Charge”; Filmmaker Pulls Jon Voight Into Political Convo At ‘Megalopolis’ Cannes Presser
“To do a Roman epic set in modern America, I had no idea that the politics of today would make that so relevant,” Francis Ford Coppola said Friday in Cannes about this $120 million 40-years-in-the-making epic Megalopolis.
The movie follows The City of New Rome, an allegory for New York City, in which…
Francis Ford Coppola On Movie Industry: “Streaming Is What We Use To Call Home Video”, But Major Studios May Become Extinct – Cannes
As Megalopolis continues to seek a U.S. distribution deal, its writer-director Francis Ford Coppola was asked to comment on the state of the film industry and whether the movie’s best destination is on streaming.
“Streaming is what we use to call home video,” was the director’s first response to the…
Barry Keoghan On His ‘Bird’ Musical Number In The Wake Of That ‘Saltburn’ Ending: “I Don’t Think I Can Dance, I’m A Bad Dancer” – Cannes
After prancing through the hallways showing his man-ness at the end of Saltburn last year, Barry Keoghan is back with a another illustrious ditty performance in Bird. In the Andrea Arnold movie that had its world premiere Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, Keoghan plays a young father, and at one…
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