After a downer summer with Furiosa, Horizon, et al, Warner Bros. turned things around in a big way with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The sequel grossed $42M on Saturday – essentially even with Friday/previews – and totaled $111M for the weekend.
In just its first three days of release, the Michael Keaton-Winona Ryder-Catherine O’Hara reunion, which also adds the marquee draw of Jenna Ortega, easily surpassed the lifetime total of the original 1988 movie. Without adjusting for inflation, the first Beetlejuice took in $74.7M. >>>73% Of Weekend's Foot Traffic |
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'Phantom' Rises Again - Disney+ is in early development on Phantom, a YA movie reimagination of the classic novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. The project hails from Disney Branded Entertainment and Kenny Ortega, who has led two major Disney franchises with High School Musical and The Descendants. >>>Franchise Potential
Eye On Padalecki - CBS Studios has extended its first-look deal with Jared Padalecki for him to develop and produce new series projects across linear and streaming. He is currently set for a three-episode arc on the studio’s CBS drama series Fire Country with an idea to explore a potential spinoff built around his character. >>>Very Early Stages
'Conclave' With Edward Berger - Though Conclave is fiction based on the Robert Harris novel, you cannot watch Edward Berger’s taut thriller about the election of a new pope without noticing the parallels to the polarizing politics of the race for the White House. Here, Berger introduces himself to Deadline readers to position Conclave – which Focus Features launches in awards season – and discusses many other things. >>> Read The Q&A
'Saturday Night' Going Live A Little Earlier - Following the critical acclaim for Jason Reitman's SNL origins pic, Saturday Night, coming out of its Telluride premiere, Sony is changing up the release pattern of the ensemble pic to a platform roll-out. The movie will go exclusive on Sept 27 in LA, NYC and Toronto, then limited on Oct. 4 before breaking wide on Oct. 11. >>> Moved Up 2 Weeks |
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“The moderators are not the story, it is about the candidates,” says CNN’s Dana Bash of her guiding principle when it comes to debates -- presidential and otherwise. “What they say, what they believe, how they interact, how they present themselves to the voter.”
Just hours away from Harris and Trump’s first debate and first-ever meeting on ABC, Inside Politics host and America’s Deadliest Election co-author Bash tells the Deadline ElectionLine podcast that when it comes to such matchups, “the best we can do is to facilitate that and stay out of the way.”
The co-moderator of that seismic July 27 debate between Trump and Joe Biden speaks from experience. In addition to the CNN-hosted debate, which resulted in Biden stepping aside a month later, Bash last week snagged this campaign’s first interview with Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. >>>Read The Interview |
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Exclusive
Bodies Bodies Bodies actress Chase Sui Wonders is in talks to join Sony’s reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Deal terms are being finalized.
Patricia Arquette is set to star in a new as yet untitled Hulu limited series about the Murdaugh Murders from co-creator and showrunner Michael D. Fuller and co-creator Erin Lee Carr.
Eve Hewson is in early talks to star in Steven Spielberg's upcoming untitled project at Universal Pictures, after she previously appeared in the director's 2015 historical drama Bridge of Spies.
Michael Benjamin Washington (American Auto) and Elijah Wright (High and Low) have joined the fourth season of MGM+‘s gangster drama Godfather of Harlem as recurring guest stars. |
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$119 million - RedBird IMI's cash boost for All3Media, the British production company behind The Traitors |
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More News 🗯️ With Disney‘s networks still dark on DirecTV as a carriage dispute entered its second week, the pay-TV distributor filed a complaint with the FCC accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith during carriage renewal talks.
🔥 A report, based on four months of analysis of the broadcaster’s output across television, radio and other platforms, states that the BBC breached its own editorial guidelines of impartiality more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas conflict, and revealed a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel.
🏈 Kendrick Lamar will headline the Super Bowl LIX halftime show.
🎸 Bao Nguyen has entered production on Jimi, an authorized, feature-length doc on the meteoric rise of rock star Jimi Hendrix. |
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Trending
 Oasis have cemented their return with a number one album on the British music charts. The group’s debut album Definitely Maybe, first released 30 years ago, now holds the top spot a week after tickets for their reunion gigs went on sale.
🔻 Tom Brady's debut in the broadcast booth for Fox Sports on Sunday conjured strong reactions — with the AP calling his entry “awkward” and naysayers on X saying it was “absolutely atrocious.” |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian composer, arranger and pianist whose melding of his native country’s traditional music with ’60s-vintage American pop, bossa nova, samba, funk and hints of cool jazz, died peacefully Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 83. 🕯️ Aruna Vasudev, a champion of Asian cinema and founder of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema died on September 5 at the age of 88. 🕯️ Herbie Flowers, a veteran bass guitarist who worked with the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Paul McCartney and more, has died at the age of 86. 🕯️ Will Jennings, the two-time Oscar and Grammy-winning co-writer of the beloved Titanic theme, Celine Dion's “My Heart Will Go On,” has died at 80 in his Texan home. 🕯️ Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: A Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Mon - Apple product event; Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference begins
Tue - Trump-Harris debate
Wed - MTV VMAs
Sat - Creative Arts Emmys; BAFTA Tea Party, L.A.
Sun - Primetime Emmys |
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Selena In Shot - Selena Gomez visited the Deadline Portrait Studio at TIFF with her Emilia Pérez co-stars Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón and Édgar Ramírez. |
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