Disney's Snow White, a live-action remake of the 1937 animated classic, went through so many 21st century rewrites on the way to last Friday's opening that it earned the nickname "Snow Woke" in right-leaning online circles. In the wake of the film's $43M opening (a big miss given its $270M production cost, and heavy P&A spend on top of that), a question has lingered: How did the movie fare at the box office in red states compared with blue ones?
Box office analytics firm EntTelligence tells Deadline that the Rachel Zegler-Gal Gadot starrer minted 60% of ticket sales and drew 56.5% of her total attendance (3.1M admissions) in theaters located in blue counties. >>>Figures Come With An Asterisk
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Lopez's 'Kiss' Attracts Suitor - Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment are in final talks to take domestic rights to Sundance’s most buzzed about movie this year, the Bill Condon directed, Jennifer Lopez feature take of Broadway musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman. >>>82% Fresh
‘Vanished’ Materializes - Kaley Cuoco is set to lead buzzy series package Vanished, which AGC Television is launching for this week’s Series Mania in Lille. Starring in the suspense drama are also Sam Claflin, Karin Viard and Matthias Schweighöfer. >>> Romantic Getaway Takes Dark Turn
'Othello' Broadway Review - Denzel Washington seems still to be finding a steadier approach to the Moor, but Jake Gyllenhaal, as the great villain Iago, has no such trepidations. Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for the next nearly three hours. >>>Remarkable Performance
Hollywood Stalks Leatherface - Studios and filmmakers are knocking on Verve‘s door as the agency is sitting on bloody good IP that they’re looking to take to the town: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Verve has repped the rights for the slasher series created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel since 2017. >>>Potential To Make A Killing
In Brief - Emmy Rossum signs with WME... Wheelhouse promotes Emma Gladstone to Head of East Coast Business Development |
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Amanda Seyfried didn’t ever think she would play a cop. The star of Peacock police thriller Long Bright River broke out in Mean Girls and Mamma Mia!, but she says she “put limits on myself” until receiving a crucial note from Broadway director Leigh Silverman several years back. "I saw myself as someone who would not be able to have some kind of authority. I am slight and I was young for so long, until I wasn’t, and I think I just didn’t see it, and now I feel like I can play anything.” >>> Read The Interview |
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Robert Patrick (1923) and Beau Knapp (SEAL Team) have joined the series regular cast of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series Tulsa King for Season 3. Production is currently underway on the Sylvester Stallone-led drama in Atlanta and Oklahoma.
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Zach Braff and Esther McGregor are set to lead in the true story Clean Hands based on the life of hero drug cop turned recovery advocate Kevin Simmers and his daughter Brooke.
Wolfs actor Austin Abrams is in early talks to star in Zach Cregger‘s reboot of the Constantin-Sony feature take of the Capcom videogame, Resident Evil. The WME-repped Abrams is also known for playing Ethan Lewis on HBO’s Euphoria.
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Sherman Augustus (Stranger Things) is set for a key recurring role in Lanterns, HBO’s drama series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. He joins leads Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre and series regular Kelly MacDonald.
American Love Story has found its female lead. The first installment of the FX anthology series, which chronicles the whirlwind courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has tapped Sarah Pidgeon (The Wilds, Tiny Beautiful Things) as Bessette.
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Jimmy Tatro has joined the cast of an untitled comedy from Amazon MGM Studios, alongside Will Ferrell, Zac Efron and Regina Hall. Nicholas Stoller is directing the film from his own script.
In Brief - Seth Gilliam & Sonja O’Hara attached for paranormal thriller Stakeout... Prison Break to reunite Clayton Cardenas & JR Bourne... Robbie Amell and Victoria Justice to star in Send A Scare |
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🤝 Silver Lake has officially taken Endeavor private. The private equity firm closed its long-planned acquisition of outstanding shares this morning. The media company led by Ari Emanuel is leaving the New York Stock Exchange after an up-and-down four-year run. The Endeavor brand will no longer be used publicly, with its assets now operating under WME Group. Emanuel is also passing the CEO baton at WME Group to Mark Shapiro, but he remains CEO of corporate sibling TKO Group Holdings.
🤖 Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has given $50 million to his alma mater, Bowdoin College in Maine, in support of a new initiative centered on AI.
🐭 A fire broke out Saturday at Walt Disney World and Resort‘s Epcot theme park, near the World Showcase’s French Pavilion. No injuries were reported from the backstage fire, which reportedly started in a walk-in cooler and forced guests to evacuate from the Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure ride.
0️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ Amy Pascal and David Heyman are in talks with Amazon MGM Studios to steer the James Bond franchise once the hand-off is finalized from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to the studio, Deadline has confirmed. Pascal, while at Sony, steered the 007 franchise to franchise-high grosses and has gone on to produce the Spiderverse animated movies and the Tom Holland Spider-Man pics. Heyman is the captain of the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise as well as multi-Oscar-winning movies like Gravity.
🏦 Paramount Global, Verizon and any other companies trying to gain the government’s blessing for mergers should eliminate policies aimed at promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. That was the blunt message from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in an interview with Bloomberg. “Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr told the news outlet Friday.
📺 Matt Owens, the main creative force behind Netflix’s One Piece, is leaving the live-action series, which wrapped production on Season 2 last month. “The last six years working on the live-action One Piece have been a life-changing journey. A dream come true. It’s also been A LOT,” Owens wrote on Instagram. “So I’m stepping off the Going Merry to take a break and focus on myself and my mental health.” |
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Obituaries
🕯 George Foreman, the boxing champ and George Foreman Grill mogul, has died. He was 76. The two-time world heavyweight champion “peacefully” died on Friday “surrounded by loved ones,” his family announced on Instagram. 🕯 Jack Lilley, whose showbiz career spanned more than seven decades as an actor, stuntman, animal coordinator and other roles and included Little House on the Prairie, Blazing Saddles , John Ford films and TV Westerns, has died. He was 91. 🕯 Jan Schwieterman, who played the burger-making nemesis to Kenan Thompson’s character in the 1997 Nickelodeon comedy Good Burger, died February 28 at Mercy Hospital in Washington, Missouri, after a brief battle with cancer. He was 52. 🕯 Larry Tamblyn , the founding frontman for The Standells, brother of actor Russ Tamblyn and uncle of Amber Tamblyn, has died. He was 82. The musician’s nephew Dennis Tamblyn announced that his uncle died on Saturday, paying tribute to Larry, who he noted “was still making music well into his later years.” 🕯 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries |
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Mon - Nikki Glaser on Fallon
Wed - The Studio series premiere
Thu - A Complete Unknown drops on Hulu
Sat - PaleyFest LA begins; Mikey Madison hosts SNL |
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Comedians Form “Resistance” - Conan O'Brien, the veteran late-night host, was awarded the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday at the Kennedy Center. The Washington, D.C. cultural institution has been engulfed by controversy after a dramatic overhaul by President Donald Trump. Presenting the prize to O'Brien, David Letterman told to the audience, “I’m not a historian, but I believe that history will show, in history for all time, this will have been the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, ever.” |
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