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EXCLUSIVE: Marketing veteran Matt Brubaker has exited Trailer Park after two decades to join Black Adam and Nope ad agency Buddha Jones, which has upped Bill Neil to Partner. Brubaker joins the outfit as Head of Theatrical/Streaming following a lengthy Trailer Park stint during which he was creative…

The Black Reel Awards has revealed its nominations for their 23rd Annual ceremony. Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Woman King, about the warrior women of the country of Dahomey, and Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, about a superhero from the fictional African nation of Wakanda and a memorial…

One of the more prestigious stops on the Oscar-season circuit is always the annual AFI Awards Luncheon, and on Friday the American Film Institute revealed its list of Top 10 Movies and TV Programs for 2022 (see this post for TV list). Major studios dominated…

Jordan Peele’s Nope marked the third time the filmmaker has collaborated with composer Michael Abels, who brought his music from the sci-fi horror feature to life at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. Following a performance of the score with a 60-piece orchestra, Abels spoke about his…

The latest edition of Deadline's Sound & Screen is officially underway Thursday night in Los Angeles, showcasing genre-defying and moving original music from some of the film industry’s most respected talents who are making waves during awards season. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kaluuya is "chilling" on acting following the release of Nope, his latest collaboration with Jordan Peele. “I like the films to come out and have nothing lined up,” he told Deadline. “You’re showing a new performance, a new way, a new space that you were in at that time, so you gotta let that get out…

It appears that Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele may not be done with the world of his acclaimed third feature, Nope. Peele hinted at the potential for further films set in the Nope universe in an interview with the New York Times published on Monday, after being asked about a character listed on IMDb as “Nobody,&#8221…

Sony's Bullet Train was the global and international box office leader for the studios during its sophomore frame with an added $17M from 61 overseas markets for an offshore cume of $60M and global riding the rails past $100M for $114.5M through Sunday. The international holdover markets dropped 40%; word of mouth is…

With today's business included, Universal Pictures is crossing the $3B mark at the global box office for 2022 so far, becoming the first studio to reach the milestone since 2019. The grosses broken out to date are $1.74B at the international box office and $1.281B domestically. This is the eighth time Uni has topped…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: The expected summer slowdown is taking its expected course with Warner Bros. animated film DC League of Super-Pets grossing a $9.3M Friday, for a $23M+ opening at 4,314, which is a solid result for a piece of original animation in the marketplace right now, not that far from…

Jordan Peele covets chaotic windstorms and surreal time leaps, so he should also appreciate the cultural phenomenon he's now helped create: People this week are actually talking about movies again. Even grownup movies. Obsessive movie talk hasn't happened in a long time. Peele's Nope is selling…

3rd Update, Sunday AM: Nope, despite its B CinemaScore and 79% PostTrak, did not exactly fall apart between Friday and Saturday. If you back out those $6.4M previews out of Friday’s $19.59M, that means the Jordan Peele pic’s first day was $13.19M, and with Saturday at $13.95M, that’s a 6% rise. All of this results in…