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Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studios' respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that brink, the studios have…

Sony Pictures Entertainment recorded $202 million in operating profit for the three months ended September 30, repping a 30% slide from the comparable period last year (-13% on a yen basis). The company said Q2 profits were affected by the absence of new films licensed to digital streaming services and an…

Sony Pictures’ Where the Crawdads Sing has crossed the $90 million mark at the domestic box office, showing proof that it’s not just tentpoles that rule the roost on the big screen. The pic hit the mark on its 82nd day of release, Tuesday, after opening on July 15. The movie based on the Delia Owens…

In an encouraging sign for specialized product, Sony/3000 Pictures/Hello Sunshine's Where the Crawdads Sing has crossed the $100 million benchmark globally. Getting there on Tuesday, the feature adaptation of the Delia Owens novel sits at $78.8M domestic and $21.5M from the international box office. Crawdads initially…

Daisy Edgar-Jones picked up Locarno's Leopard Club acting award Friday evening — the latest honour of her short career. Despite her early success, however, Edgar-Jones says she’s keen to reshape her career and shake her perception in the industry. "I play a lot of gentle and quiet nice people, but I’d like to play…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has posted operating income of $381M (50.7BN yen) for the first quarter of this year, up 70% on the $232M posted in the same period last year on a currency basis. Revenues grew 41% to $2.58BN (341.4BN yen), compared with last year's $1.87BN. The numbers were significantly…

Jordan Peele covets chaotic windstorms and surreal time leaps, so he should also appreciate the cultural phenomenon he's now helped create: People this week are actually talking about movies again. Even grownup movies. Obsessive movie talk hasn't happened in a long time. Peele's Nope is selling…

Updated, Sunday AM writethru after Saturday AM update: The wearing down of the MCU luster is unfortunately being seen, as Disney’s Thor: Love and Thunder is having a great fall, with a -68% drop for a second weekend to $46M. And the sequel isn’t even theatrical day-and-date like Black Widow was last year on Disney+…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Mychael Danna’s score for 3000 Pictures’ dramatic thriller Where the Crawdads Sing, which is slated for release by Decca Records tomorrow, as the film hits theaters in the U.S. Olivia Newman’s film based on the bestseller by Delia Owens tells the story of Kya (Daisy…

Disney/Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder will continue its reign atop the weekend box office in its second session, with on the low-end an anticipated 65% decline or $50M from its $144M opening. The movie is easily heading past $200M in the next three days, and yesterday grossed an estimated $13.6M for a running total…

Where the Crawdads Sing came out of nowhere four years ago to become one of the best-selling literary sensations of all time. Written by the hitherto little-known Delia Owens, who was 69 when the book was published in 2018, the novel about a little Southern swamp rat who had to contend with a fractured family…

UPDATE: As promised, Taylor Swift released her new song "Carolina" from the soundtrack of the upcoming film Where the Crawdads Sings at midnight ET. It marks her first newly written original song since her 2020 album Evermore. The song, revealed in a lyric video, comes as Sony Pictures gears up for the July 15…