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SUNDAY AM: While the theatrical marketplace is starving for big movies post-strike, Apple Original Films’ $200M pick-up of Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle isn’t cutting it with a $18M domestic/$35M global start, C+ CinemaScore, and 3 stars on Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak. At the end of the day, this…

Apple Original Films’ third movie to go wide in theaters, the $200 million, Matthew Vaughn-directed Argylle, hits cinemas this weekend via a distribution deal with Universal. A mid-teens start is expected. As the old saying goes in distribution, “It would be nice if it had a 2 in front of it,&#8221…

Not since 2019’s crime thriller The Gentleman has Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey gotten a chance to thrill audiences, but it looks like he’s getting closer at finding his next project in a big way. Sources tell Deadline that McConaughey is in negotiations to star in Comet Films and Blumhouse’s The Lost B…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Vaughn reveals that last year he received what he terms "flattering” offers to sell Marv Films, the production company behind productions that include the Kick-Ass and Kingsman franchises and the Apple Original Films romance spy-thriller Argylle. That film is having its world premiere…

Studios, specialty labels, streamers and indies spread the field of BAFTA Film Awards nominations announced today. Universal’s Oppenheimer leads with 13, followed by Searchlight’s Poor Things at 11 and Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon at nine, tying with A24’s The Zone of…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of The Family Plan last month, Apple Original Films and Skydance are reteaming on another tentpole as Deadline is hearing John Krasinski and Natalie Portman are set to star in Fountain of Youth with Guy Ritchie directing. Skydance Media will serve as the studio, and the…

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie is in hot pursuit of an Oscar nomination, but in the meantime the documentary about the beloved Hollywood star has picked up major awards at the Emmys. The film directed by Davis Guggenheim won Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special on Sunday on the second night…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Napoleon, David Scarpa’s screenplay that fuels Ridley Scott’s historical epic starring Joaquin Phoenix. The screenplay details the rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor, forming the skeleton…

Ridley Scott's Napoleon has crossed the $200M mark globally, getting to the milestone with Tuesday's numbers included. The worldwide tally for the biographical epic is $200.7M, of which $141.1M is from the international box office. Through yesterday, the domestic cume is $59.6M. The Joaquin…

We told you first that Sony won the theatrical distribution deal to handle Apple Original Films Jon Watts’ directed George Clooney and Brad Pitt thriller Wolfs, as well as the Greg Berlanti directed Scarlett Johansson-Channing Tatum movie previously known as Project Artemis (title forthcoming). We heard…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment in a competitive situation has won the theatrical distribution deals for two mega Apple Original Films movies –the George Clooney and Brad Pitt feature Wolfs and the Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum title Project Artemis. The news comes on the heels of…

Moderated by Deadline Co-Editor Mike Fleming, the panel “Casting Killers of the Flower Moon” featured Casting Director Ellen Lewis and Rene Haynes, the indigenous casting director of the film. Here they discuss Martin Scorsese’s resolve to make the Osage a big part of the onscreen depiction of the…