In one of the year’s top triumphs for indie genre cinema — after Neon’s Longlegs — Cineverse’s Terrifier 3, after an investment of less than $5 million in the franchise installment, screamed to an estimated $18.3M+ weekend opening. It took in $8.2M on Friday, $5.9M on Saturday and $4.2M on Sunday. That Sunday dip of just 30% is due to the Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day holiday. The threequel received a B CinemaScore, which is high praise from the moviegoer pollster, which hands out very few As to horror titles.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros’ big-budget Joker: Folie à Deux saw an -81% freefall in its second weekend with $7.055M, landing in third place. >>>Full Analysis |
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Is Harris' Media Marathon Her October Surprise? - A number of Hollywood backers were pleased with Kamala Harris' recent media blitz. “She has to break through the news silos in these final weeks, that’s how to get to the undecideds,” noted a veteran Democratic political operative. “The network interviews, podcasts, all that stuff is good, but it’s the unexpected situations, like calling into The Weather Channel, drinking a beer with Colbert, that’s the takeaway.” >>> Strategy
Replicant - After crossing $100M globally last weekend, The Wild Robot filmmaker Chris Sanders confirmed at Saturday's Deadline Contenders that a sequel to the pic is on the way and currently in development at DreamWorks Animation. >>>"100% Yes"
The Fire Behind The Film: 'The Apprentice' -Deadline presents interviews done during the film’s twisty road, beginning with director Ali Abbasi, writer Gabriel Sherman and actors Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong right after the film's Telluride premiere, when they seemed dazed to even be there. >>>Q&A
More Showbiz Layoffs - Aardman, the iconic UK animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit, eliminated 20 jobs as it grapples with the increased cost of production. Meanwhile, Allen Media Group laid off key members of its weather, news and sports teams. >>>Specific Impacts
In Brief - Mike Leigh to shoot next movie in 2025... Unstable canceled by Netflix |
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While attending Warner Bros Television Group’s Fall TV Season Celebration on Thursday night, Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO of the Warner Bros. Television Group, answered a few questions from Deadline about some of the studio’s buzziest series including Apple TV’s Ted Lasso and Bad Monkey, The Big Bang Theory spinoff in the works at Max and more. >>>Read The Interview |
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Exclusive
The Righteous Gemstones' Tony Cavalero is co-starring in the untitled Sydney Sweeney-led, Black Bear-financed Christy Martin biopic. The film, directed by David Michôd from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mirrah Foulkes, follows the true story of formidable Christy Martin, who rose to fame as America’s most successful female boxer in the 1990s.
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Talia Ryder (Dumb Money) has boarded Rob Burnett’s comedy film In Memoriam alongside Marc Maron. |
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BY THE NUMBERS
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More News
🏈 ABC has made changes to its Monday and Wednesday schedules. Monday will now be officially a Monday Night Football night as the network has added six more simulcasts for a total of 17 games in 2024 — 14 simulcast, including playoffs, and three exclusive. What Would You Do? will move to Wednesdays starting next week.
🎸 Country music star Brantley Gilbert made an impromptu interruption to his concert Friday night – disappearing off stage to help his pregnant wife deliver their baby on the tour bus before returning to stage to finish his set. |
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Trending
 Deadpool & Wolverine refuses to stop breaking records, notching the highest-selling first week ever for an R-rated film on domestic digital platforms.
🔻 Joker: Folie à Deux had the worst Week 2 hold for a DC character movie in the history of the brand. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Toni Vaz, an actor-turned-pioneering stunt performer who went on to found the NAACP Image Awards, had died. She was 101. A spokesperson told Deadline that Vaz died October 4 at the Motion Picture Fund campus in Woodland Hills. 🕯️ Peter E. Strauss, a veteran film executive, movie producer and pioneering entrepreneur, died October 6 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83. 🕯️ Richard “Dick” Block, the former president of Kaiser Broadcasting and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, died Sept. 30 at the age of 97. 🕯️ John Lasell, a character actor known for his television portrayals in Perry Mason (1957), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Dark Shadows (1966), has died in Los Angeles at the age of 95. 🕯️ Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024, A Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Mon - NCIS: Origins series premiere
Tue - American Horror Stories S4 premiere
Wed - PaleyFest
Thurs - New York Comic Con begins; Netflix reports third-quarter earnings
Fri - S.W.A.T. S8 premiere |
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'Emilia' In London - Zoë Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Jacques Audiard, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz at Deadline’s Contenders Portrait Studio in London. |
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