| FRANCHISE INSTALLMENT POWERS DOWN AT BOX OFFICE; LOSSES ON THE DISNEY FILM WILL HIT $132.7M, SOURCES SAY |
More bleeding red neon is coming out of Disney‘s Tron: Ares than had previously been expected. Deadline has learned from sources that the third chapter in the 43-year old videogame matrix protagonist story actually cost $220 million net, not the widely reported range of $170 million to $180 million. That higher pricetag means that the Jared Leto-Grace Lee-Jeff Bridges light-cycle movie is headed for a $132.7 million loss after all ancillaries, presuming its final global gross hits a wall at $160 million. The franchise extension, directed by Joachim Rønning, logged its second weekend at a running worldwide cume of $103 million, plunging 67% at the domestic box office to bring in $11.1M.
Revising the Tron universe was never going to be a sure commercial bet. The original 1980s title bombed upon initial release but later attained cult status in the then-new home video marketplace. When it was revived in 2010 with Tron: Legacy, the result was a so-so $400 million worldwide. In the more austere, post-Covid environment, and as a sci-fi movie unrelated to Star Wars, Star Trek or Avatar, T:A faced an uphill climb.
Beyond the genre issues, though, what was the main flaw in the errant Aries? As always in Hollywood, it starts on the page.>>>Screenplay Scrutiny |
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Prepping For Pink Slips At Paramount - Paramount has moved up its plans for workforce reductions to the week of October 27, about two weeks before the company is due to report third-quarter earnings results. The number of Stateside employees affected could be around 2,000. >>>Only The First Round
Tilly Norwood Creator Clears The Air - The creator of Tilly Norwood, the AI actress who got Hollywood hot under the collar, has stressed that she was not developed using funding from the British Film Institute. Eline Van Der Velden, the UK-based technologist, shared a statement with Deadline clarifying how her company, Particle6, used a $161,000 grant from the BFI’s UK Global Screen Fund. >>>" Entirely Unrelated"
‘Task’ Star Emilia Jones Talks Finale - Emilia Jones considers it a compliment that, while playing the emo niece of a criminal uncle in Task, many viewers didn't realize that she previously played the only hearing member of a deaf family in the 2021 Oscar winner CODA. Here, the British actress addresses Sunday’s adrenaline-fueled Task finale and where she thinks her character took Robbie’s kids now that they’re free from harm. >>> Q&A
Vinnie Malhotra Exits The Obamas’ Higher Ground
Lydia Hearst Launches Barn Loft Productions, Unveils Initial Slate Oscar-Winning Director Ben Proudfoot Talks Historical Significance Of ‘The Eyes Of Ghana’, Scoring Doc At Abbey Road Studios & Why Project Was A “Full Circle Moment” For Barack Obama |
“They really found the heartbeat inside of the badge and in honoring that, they definitely kept the themes of family, specifically a law enforcement family and community,” says Boston Blue director and executive producer Anthony Hemingway of the Blue Bloods spinoff showrunners Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis and the move of Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny Reagan to The Hub.
Having directed Friday night's Boston Blue pilot episode, Hemmingway also finds himself in the skyscrapers and courtrooms of L.A. with Ryan Murphy’s All's Fair, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Matthew Noszka, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close that launches on Hulu on November 4. An EP too on the all-female legal firm drama, The Wire and American Crime Story vet helmed four of the nine episodes of All’s Fair’s first season. Hemingway is also reuniting with Power actor Omari Hardwick for the Wall Street-set feature No Right Way.
Just back from the Boston Blue premiere in NYC earlier this week and the L.A. premiere Thursday at the DGA, Hemingway chatted with Deadline about the Blue Bloods spinoff. He also dug into the BTS and on-screen connections between the original show and Boston Blue, the possibilities of All’s Fair, the status of No Right Way, and the importance of independence. >>>Q&A |
ExclusiveJames Badge Dale (The Pacific), Matty Matheson (The Bear) and Imogen Poots (All of You) are new additions to October , writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s Halloween fugitive thriller for A24, which is producing and financing.
exclusiveEmmy nominee Jake Lacy (The White Lotus) is set for a recurring role in Furious, the previously untitled Liz Meriwether Hulu series loosely inspired by the 1987 movie Black Widow. The series is led by Emmy Rossum. |
BY THE NUMBERS $26M - Opening weekend domestic B.O. take for 'Black Phone 2' |
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📺 David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting, is joining MSNBC as senior national security reporter following a tenure at NBC News as senior executive editor of national security and law. Rohde is the latest hire by MSNBC as it prepares to complete its split from Comcast along with a group of other NBCUniversal cable networks.
📽️ The team behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land says it is planning to self-release the film on U.S. streaming platforms beginning October 20. The platforms include Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play and YouTube. The filmmakers say that 100% of VOD proceeds will go directly to Palestinian communities.
✊ Lindsay Dougherty won her re-election bid as secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 399 with 70.97% of the vote. She will serve through 2028. |
OBITUARIES
🕯️ Samantha Eggar, the British actress best known for her roles in 1960s-’70s films The Collector, Doctor Dolittle and The Molly Maguires, died Wednesday, October 15, at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, after battling a five-year illness. She was 86. 🕯️ Sam Rivers , who served as the bassist of and provided backing vocals for nu metal band Limp Bizkit, has died at the age of 48, the group announced on social media. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery |
ON THE RADAR
Tue - Virginia Giuffre’s memoir released; Netflix Q3 earnings; Larry David on Seth Meyers
Wed - AFI Fest begins; NAB Show NY; Gen V finale
Thu - Ben Stiller on Colbert
Fri - World Series begins; NBA Prime Video debuts; New Yorker Festival opens
Sun - It: Welcome to Derry series premiere |
Sight Unseen - At the Fifth Annual Academy Museum Gala, a bejeweled and hooded Kim Kardashian admitted to photographers, "I can't see anything" as she posed on the red carpet. |
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