| SOPHOMORE HOLD IS NOWHERE NEAR THAT OF 'SINNERS' OR 'GET OUT', BUT THE FILM'S DURABILITY IS STILL REMARKABLE |
August's dog days saw the overall domestic weekend falling under $100M for only the second time this season with an estimated $93M, per comScore. The last time this happened was during the second weekend of summer, May 9-11, when all movies grossed just over $84M, per Box Office Mojo. While summer's $3.4 billion total remains ahead of last year’s heat wave by 2%, it's unlikely to hit the $4 billion mark. The last time it did was pre-Covid.
It's a good thing Warner Bros moved Weapons into late summer, or else the box office wouldn't have a pulse at all. The Zach Cregger pic’s hold for weekend 2 stands at -43% for a second frame of $25M after a $7.4M Friday and Saturday of $9.6M, +29%.
While Weapons isn’t holding like Get Out (-15%) and Sinners (-5%), any time a horror movie maintains better than -50% in its second weekend is remarkable. And this original horror movie posted a weekend 2 that’s better than 2025’s other big horror pics, Final Destination: Bloodlines (-63%) and 28 Years Later (-68%). >>>Only Cost New Line $38M-ish
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Deadline Exclusives & Originals |
Was 'Americana' A Bomb? - The Sydney Sweeney-starring western Americana was condemned as a bomb, with its $500K opening in 1,100 theaters. However, at the end of the day, the movie is expected to be modestly profitable for Lionsgate. >>>Financial Analysis
Notes On The Season: 'The Pitt' - Deadline's Pete Hammond moderated a Q&A with The Pitt stars Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa and creator/executive producer R. Scott Gemmill at the Motion Picture & Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills. >>>Highlights
All3Media Exec Moves - All3Media International has upped Jennifer Askin to EVP level and hired former Warner Bros. Discovery exec Whitney Muroff, as Sally Habbershaw exits after nearly a decade. >>>CEO's Statement
Casting Emmy Roundtable - In the second of three roundtables featuring this year’s Emmy nominees for Outstanding Casting, Deadline gathered Mary Vernieu (The Last of Us), Cathy Sandrich Gelfond (The Pitt), Rachel Tenner (Severance), Nina Gold (Slow Horses) and Meredith Tucker (The White Lotus) to talk about discovering new tricks in old talent, and finding young actors who can look and sound like medical residents. >>> Q&A |
Most shows take years to become part of the world’s consciousness, but Netflix's Adolescence did it within weeks of its debut in March of this year.
The drama followed hard on the heels of the 2021 film Boiling Point, a collaboration between Adolescence star Stephen Graham and director Philip Barantini. It was a one-take drama in which Graham plays a chef on the edge, and the format suited the tension of the situation. With Adolescence, though, Barantini and Graham went a step further, in no small part thanks to writer and co-creator Jack Thorne. By forensically focusing on four specific hours in the crime being covered, Adolescence took audiences quietly but firmly into their worst nightmares.
Here, Thorne talks about the show and his upcoming projects, which include The Hack, about the very British News International phone-hacking scandal, an adaption of William Golding’s schoolboy survival story Lord of the Flies and Sam Mendes’s Beatles project. >>>Q&A
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Quotable "He’s not getting out" - Bob Odenkirk on Saul Goodman's status why any 'Better Call Saul' revival would have to take place in prison |
ExclusiveCore Scary Movie actresses Regina Hall and Anna Faris are coming back as Brenda and Cindy, respectively, for the Wayans Brothers’ restart of the early millennium comedy franchise.
ExclusiveGregory Alan Williams (The Righteous Gemstones), MacKenzie Porter (Hell on Wheels), and Tim Matheson (Virgin River) have joined the recurring cast of ABC’s 9-1-1: Nashville. |
by the numbers $590M - Global B.O. total for Apple Original Films’ 'F1' |
MORE NEWS
📺 MSNBC will be rebranded as My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, later this year as the network prepares for its spinoff from Comcast. The network will also will shed the Peacock logo.
🏆 YouTube is tossing its hat in the ring to host the Academy Awards, per a report from Bloomberg. Though film’s biggest night has long aired on ABC, it’s no surprise that other media companies are making plays for the coveted awards show.
📺 New seasons for Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone spinoff The Madison and Special Ops: Lioness are expected, sources tell Deadline. It would be an early Season 2 renewal for The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, ahead of its series debut on Paramount+, and a long-awaited Season 3 pickup for Lioness.
🦇 Disney Branded Television has handed a series order to Coven Academy, a single-camera, supernatural dramedy from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series creator Tim Federle. Ordered to pilot in March, the series is slated to premiere next year on Disney+ and Disney Channel.
⚖️ Facing rape and sex-trafficking charges in Romania and the UK, and a criminal investigation in the USA, so-called “king of toxic masculinity” Andrew Tate has decided now is the time to go after Meta and TikTok for kicking the self-described far-right misogynist off their platforms. |
| OBITUARIES
🕯️ Terence Stamp, the actor known for roles in the original Superman films and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died. He was 87. 🕯️ Patricia White, the long-time company manager of Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre and a well-known figure in New York City’s Black theater community, died August 10 after a brief illness. She was 77. 🕯️ Dan Ziskie, a prolific TV character actor whose abundant credits stretch from 1980 episodes of The Edge of Night to central roles on HBO’s Treme and Netflix’s House of Cards, died July 21 in New York of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was 80. 🕯️ Michael Sloan, the writer-producer who co-created with Richard Lindheim the durable 1980s TV series The Equalizer , died August 13. He was 78. 🕯️ Tristan Rogers, best known for playing Robert Scorpio on ABC’s General Hospital, died August 15. He was 79. 🕯️ Dan Tana, the erstwhile actor-turned-restaurateur whose eponymous West Hollywood eatery was a hotspot for celebrities for the past half century, has died at the age of 90.
🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries |
ON THE RADAR
Mon - Final Emmy voting begins
Tues - Edinburgh TV Festival kicks off; Adam Scott on Kimmel
Thu - Peacemaker S2 premiere on HBO Max |
HBO Max Nominee Celebration - Pedro Pascal arrives at the Deadline Contenders x HBO Max Nominee Celebration in L.A. |
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