What’s ahead for franchises, theaters

What’s ahead for franchises, theaters

Timothee Chalamet stars in Warner Bros.’ “Dune.” Warner Bros. Mean girls, Spider-Women and sandworms will headline the 2024 box office — and they’ll have to do some heavy lifting. The March 1 release of “Dune: Part Two,” the delayed and much-anticipated follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 science fiction epic is expected to attract hordes of … Read more

Wonka, Color Purple, Aquaman box office crucial for Hollywood

Wonka, Color Purple, Aquaman box office crucial for Hollywood

Timothee Chalamet stars as a young Willy Wonka in Warner Bros.’ “Wonka.” Warner Bros. Discovery LOS ANGELES — There are just a few weeks left at the 2023 box office, and they’ll be dominated by movies from Warner Bros. The studio is capping off the year with three big features — “Wonka,” “Aquaman and the … Read more

Disney ‘Wish’ disappoints at the Thanksgiving box office

Disney ‘Wish’ disappoints at the Thanksgiving box office

Ariana DeBose stars as Asha in Disney’s new animated film “Wish.” Disney Disney needs to do more than wish on some stars to get out of its animation rut. It’s latest animated feature “Wish,” billed as a celebration of 100 years of storytelling, fumbled at the box office during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It tallied … Read more

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday

Here are the most important news items that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Capping a strong November Wall Street hopes to close out November on a high note, after U.S. stocks posted four straight positive weeks. The three major U.S. indexes climbed last week, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3%, … Read more

Hunger Games, ‘Napoleon’ top Disney’s ‘Wish’

Hunger Games, ‘Napoleon’ top Disney’s ‘Wish’

Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler star as Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Baird in Lionsgate’s “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Lionsgate This year’s Thanksgiving box office was both feast and famine for the theatrical industry. Lionsgate’s “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” had a solid second week run in cinemas, … Read more

Disney needs an animation hit: Is it Wish?

Disney ‘Wish’ disappoints at the Thanksgiving box office

Ariana DeBose stars as Asha in Disney’s new animated film “Wish.” Disney Disney is wishing on a shooting star this week, hoping that its celebratory 100th anniversary film “Wish” will mark a turning point for its beleaguered animation division and jumpstart the Thanksgiving box office. The House of Mouse posted its biggest year ever theatrically … Read more

Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ against media watchdog, calls advertisers ‘oppressors’

Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ against media watchdog, calls advertisers ‘oppressors’

Elon Musk lashed out at large advertisers and Media Matters, a media watchdog group, on Friday after several major brands decided to pause spending on X, the social media platform he owns and runs as CTO. Musk wrote late Friday night, “The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear … Read more

Apple, Disney, Warner, Lionsgate pause advertising on X

Apple, Disney, Warner, Lionsgate pause advertising on X

Apple CEO Tim Cook looks on following a conversation on mental health, during a spousal program on the last day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week at Apple Park in San Francisco, California, on November 17, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Apple and Disney have paused online advertising campaigns on … Read more

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ opening weekend box office

Hunger Games, ‘Napoleon’ top Disney’s ‘Wish’

Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler star as Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Baird in Lionsgate’s “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Lionsgate “Snow lands on top.” It’s the mantra of the main character Coriolanus Snow in the upcoming “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and the hope of its distributor Lionsgate. … Read more

How Disney can save the Marvel Cinematic Universe

How Disney can save the Marvel Cinematic Universe

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 24: President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige took part today in the Walt Disney Studios presentation at Disney’s D23 EXPO 2019 in Anaheim, Calif. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) Jesse Grant | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe without heroes like Iron Man, … Read more