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Yeah, but where do you go from here? However, for Universal,Halloweenwas a big subscription driver. The $30M spent on thisExorcistdoesnt include backends. ‘The Exorcist: Believer’Blumhouse Its for these reasons why Universal and Peacock bit at CAAs auction for the IP. TheExorcistIP has been ripped off and copied so much that the brand is rather diluted, i.e. Furthermore, Ellen Burstyns Chris MacNeil isnt exactly Curtis Strode in regards to being the last girl standing....

Watch on Deadline The film premiered at TIFF, winning the Peoples Choice Midnight Madness Award. Breakdown: Fri: $80.8k; Sat: $81.5k; Sun: estimated: $58.6k. It was a busy weekend for indie openings with a half dozen films showing some muscle. Dicks: The Musical L-R Josh Sharp, Bowen Yang, Aaron JacksonA24 Directed by Miri Navasky, Maeve OBoyle and Karen OConner. Expands to 100 locations next week. Estimated per screen average of $1,014....

The R-rated David Gordon Green-directed reboot/sequel did see some of its 52 launch markets give it a No. 1 start, while in like-for-likes, the bow is aboveM3GAN, Evil Dead Rise, Scream VIandSmile. 1 for the second-best start of a Blumhouse film post-pandemic. The Exorcist: Believer, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, BarbieUniversal, Paramount, WB Its in line withThe Curse of La Llorona, and more than doubleScream VI,M3GANandSmile. Turning back toExorcist: Believer, theUKfollowed Mexico with $2....

Bill Maherwas off television for five months, thanks to the WGA strike. So naturally, he had a lot to catch up on in Fridays edition ofReal TimeonHBO. The migrants issue has mushroomed into a national crisis, Maher noted. Panelists Welch and Isgur talked about the fentanyl plague thats part and parcel of the loose border enforcement. He later referred to it as bathtub heroin. Their efforts to roll back the tide makes them look like sanctuary city hypocrites....

The keynote session, hosted byBaby Driverfilmmaker Edgar Wright, was the hottest ticket here this week in London. And then from their films, I get inspired. It opens up a whole new world. Martin Scorsese.John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI. It was a delicate issue because it wasnt a place where you could bring cameras. Scorsese saidMean Streetswas filmed in 1972 and first presented to audiences in 1973. At that point, he said, The only way we saw movies was on the big screen....

I didnt like the way it celebrated violence but Joaquin was remarkable. I thought hed be an amazing asset toNapoleon, [not only creatively] also in a commercial sense. There were only two actors I had in mind for the role. I wont mention the other one. After the theatrical run, the film will stream globally on Apple TV+. Four-time Oscar nominee Scott revealed that he shot the movie in only 62 days....

She has build an impressive body of work since, becoming one of Hollywoods pre-eminent science fiction costume designers. Watch on Deadline She worked on such Joss Whedon series asAngel, Firefly, DollhouseandDr. Horribles Sing-Along Blog.as well as his movieThe Cabin In the Woods. Lucasfilm She is currently nominated for an Emmy for her work onThe MandalorianSeason 3. Shawna had a deep love and appreciation for Star Wars, Filoni said. you could see that in every piece of work she did with us....

Its a movie about a really complicated love story and a movie about art, she said. to make the music he made, Leonard needed that complexity in his life. Felicia was the scaffolding she really was his rock, and she was there for him. But the movie is everything: its his entire life, its who Leonard Bernstein was. And also the music is a major character. Its the nuclear energy in the film....

Barry Keoghansays a funny thing happened on the way to playing the Joker in the newBatmanfilm. The Joker, that was funny how that happened, he related in anEsquire interview. He heard there might be an opening for the role of the Riddler. Barry KeoghanJamie McCarthy/Getty Images No one asked him to audition. No one encouraged him to send in a tape. But he sent in a tape which fetaured him walking down a hallway in slow motion without speaking....

It has now made the change permanent. There is also a feeling that it has helped make theBBC Newschannels morning output more rounded. There is a view that it is now a more focused offering, with a stronger set of guests. Nicky Campbell on BBC NewsBBC We all prefer it, said one person familiar with the change. Their concerns have been investigated by Daryl Maitland, head of HR at BBC Studios....

He said that he is still planning to bring hisSpecial Reportto Capitol Hill on Monday with different guests. Baier said that on Thursday,Steve ScaliseandJim Jordanhad said that they would participate. Baier said that such reports were bizarre. Bret Baier, Jim Jordan & Steve ScaliseGetty Images I think the word debate has scared folks over the past couple of days, Baier said. And were hoping to change that. Were going to use a different word going forward....

EXCLUSIVE:Chris McCumberis departingBlumhouse Televisionafter three years as President. The units President of Production, Jeremy Gold, will step into the top role on an interim basis. (Blumhouses total headcount in film and TV is almost 100.) Chris McCumber, Blumhouse TelevisionNBCUniversal Watch on Deadline Former top NBCUniversal TV executive McCumber joined Blumhouse Television as President in November 2020. His departure comes as his contract is coming to an end, I hear. Weve always thrived by delivering what the market needs....

This is Day 86 of theSAG-AFTRA strike. The business model has changed. We have to be a part of that change. ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ team at the first responder drama picket line outside of Warner Brothers in Los Angeles todayAnthony D’Alessandro/Deadline Its about equity, its about what is fair. We are not going to stop here. We are going to continue until they listen us. Without us there would be no Warner Bros, there would be no Disney....