| 'WICKED: FOR GOOD' CASTS BOX OFFICE SPELL IN $226M GLOBAL BOW |
| SEQUEL NOTCHES THE YEAR'S SECOND-BEST DOMESTIC OPENING |
Universal’s Wicked: For Good has conjured a 3-day domestic opening of $150M and global debut of $226M. That is easily the best box office opening ever for stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt.
There are significantly more box office records being broken with Wicked: For Good. The first Wicked debuted to $112.5M Stateside, $164M global. It’s the second biggest U.S./Canada opening of the year, trailing only A Minecraft Movie's $162.7M. >>>400 Promotional Partners
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Deadline Exclusives & Originals |
BBC Plans To Cut $131M - BBC director general Tim Davie has been quietly drawing up plans to save up to £100M ($131M) a year by radically reimaging the UK national broadcaster’s operations. It is at the heart of Davie’s vision to reinvent the BBC so it can better compete with YouTube, Netflix, and AI giants, per multiple sources briefed on the proposals. >>>Project Ada
'Stranger' Tunes - Spotify is tuning into the anticipation for Season 5 of Netflix’s Stranger Things with an experience revisiting key musical moments in the ‘80s-set series.Launching today, just ahead of Part 1’s release on Wednesday, the Stranger Things Musical Time Machine takes fans back in time, exploring five big needle-drops – one per season for the first three installments and two songs for Season 4. >>> 205,000 Playlists
Netflix Lands 'Trigger Point'- In a bidding war, Netflix has nabbed Trigger Point starring Joel Edgerton with a straight-to-series order. The action crime drama, which has been picked up for eight episodes, comes from writer Harrison Query (Heads of State), director Jeremy Saulnier (Rebel Ridge), A24 and producer Joe Hipps (Ozark). >>>Spec Script
The Story Behind The 'Raymond' Reunion - Ray Romano and Everybody Loves Raymond series creator Phil Rosenthal explained the 30th anniversary reunion special’s somewhat odd release date, why they refuse to do a reboot, the spinoff that never happened and why Romano will never be in another multi-camera comedy. >>>Who'll Be There
Jane Austin & The Supernatural - Following a bidding war, Sony’s TriStar Pictures has landed the untitled supernatural romance pitch from Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp. The film follows two star-crossed lovers in the era of Jane Austen who must face a supernatural twist that threatens to tear them apart. >>>'Marcel' Producers On Board
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Real-life best friends and costars on Stranger Things, Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown now have one more thread connecting them and their characters on the show — the process of digital de-aging for flashback scenes with their characters Will Byers and Eleven, respectively.
This wasn’t the first time a character had been through this process which combines CGI and a younger body double. Brown undertook the same task for key scenes in Eleven’s past in Season 4.
“I asked [Millie] for help, honestly. I was like, ‘How did you work with the kid when you had to do it?’ It was fun to step into those director shoes that we don’t really get the chance to do on the show,” Schnapp told Deadline. >>>Read The Interview
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Noah Centineo is in talks to board Legendary‘s live-action adaptation of Gundam, the sprawling Japanese military sci-fi franchise, opposite Sydney Sweeney. |
BY THE NUMBERS 109M - Number of views for the 'Sunrise on the Reaping' trailer in the first 24 hours after it was released |
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📆 The James Cameron-directed Billie Eilish concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft, which Eilish announced back in July, will be released by Paramount on March 20, 2026.
🎬 Barbara Broccoli has confirmed that her first post-James Bond feature, Othello, has secured financial backing in Qatar and will shoot in the Gulf territory in the autumn of 2026. David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan and Cynthia Erivo are set to star in the film, with Oyelowo also down to direct.
🗞️ The publisher of the populist UK tabloid the Daily Mail has struck a $655 million (£500 million) deal to buy The Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers.
📖 Amasia Entertainment has secured franchise rights to The Complete Idiot’s Guide books from Penguin Random House and DK’s Alpha Books, including scripted and unscripted film, television, streaming, podcast and ancillary rights. |
OBITUARIES
🕯️Jimmy Cliff, the reggae music legend and star of seminal Jamaican film The Harder They Come, has died at 81. His wife, Latifa Chambers, confirmed his death in a social media post today that was also signed by his children, Lilty and Aken. “It is with profound sadness that I share my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia,” she wrote. 🕯️Veteran German actor Udo Kier , best known internationally for his striking performances in arthouse titles like Breaking the Waves and My Own Private Idaho, has died. He was 81. 🕯️Carl Ciarfalio, a longtime stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor who worked with such top names as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh and many others, has died. He was 72. 🕯️ Jellybean Johnson , the drummer of The Time and music producer for artists like Janet Jackson, has died. He was 69. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery |
ON THE RADAR
Mon - International Emmy Awards
Wed - Stranger Things S5, Part 1 premieres; Zootopia 2 opens
Thu - Thanksgiving; NFL tripleheader
Fri - Black Friday |
Furry Friends - Ke Huy Quan, Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman attend the UK premiere of Zootropolis 2 in London. |
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