EXCLUSIVE: Big news from the Dutton ranch: the season five premiere of Yellowstone averaged nearly 16 million viewers, making it the most watched show across all of TV in 2022, according to L3 results from Nielsen.
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It is quite clear from a theatrical and a streaming front, Disney is already dominating.
While CEO Bob Chapek has of course championed the booming Disney+ during the pandemic, the fact that theatrical remains powerful is not lost at all on the company. They will obviously conquer November with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which had many breathless the other night after its Hollywood premiere, and December also belongs to Disney at the box office with 20th Century Studio’s Avatar: The Way of Water. Wakanda Forever is set to open to $175M-$200M, and it won’t be surprising to see if it emulates or surpasses its first chapter which did $700.4M stateside.
The rich man’s problem for Disney is where to best exploit its legacy IP.
But this has been a situation for Disney for decades, and a winning attribute as well. With such powerful brands Disney can traverse frontwards and backwards the theatrical-to-home ancillary pipeline, stoking their family audiences to wherever the content is placed.
Read, they decided to go direct-to-video with sequels to their Jeffrey Katzenberg-developed feature animated musicals like Aladdin, Lion King, etc. while they’ve even succeeded in reverse engineering their home-grown successes, i.e.the High School musical franchise saw its threequel get a theatrical release in 2008 with an excellent $42M U.S/Canada opening, $90.6M stateside gross and near $253M WW. Ditto for the Disney Channel property Hannah Montana which made a big segue to the screen in 2008 with Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concerts which had a $31M opening at 683 theaters, still excellent for a limited release with $45K per theater, for a $65.2M domestic, $70M-plus global gross. That concert film only cost
EXCLUSIVE: Big news from the Dutton ranch: the season five premiere of Yellowstone averaged nearly 16 million viewers, making it the most watched show across all of TV in 2022, according to L3 results from Nielsen.
Beyoncé leads the field with nine nominations for the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which were revealed today. The singer’s, who is up for Album, Record and Song of the year, scored her 88th career nom, tying her with spouse Jay-Z as the most-nominated act of all time.
Cats have nine lives, right? Well, what if you’re a swashbuckling kitty who craves adventure and danger, but you only have one life remaining? Well, in the case of Puss in Boots, you get shipped off to the feline version of a retired person’s home. As seen in the trailer for “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” retired life isn’t sitting well with the title character as he dreams of his glory days of battling bad guys and riding off into the sunset.
star and the creator of Netflix's suited up in Gucci for the LACMA Art +Film Gala in Los Angeles. looked dapper as ever in a double-breasted black suit and bowtie, while Martin wore a navy and black suit, opting to go tieless and leaving their white oxford unbuttoned at the collar. Both Elliot Page and Mae Martin posted about their evening on Instagram, with the comedian referring to Page as “My King” and ending their post with “#t4t.” For those unfamiliar with the term, it stands for "trans for trans" and typically refers to a transgender person who prefers to date other trans people.
Trevor Noah thinks Elon Musk’s reported and much-mocked plan to charge Twitter users $8 a month for those little blue checks is not only “ridiculous,” but a financial loser as well.
The interest in visiting Scotland continues to grow, with even the TikTok generation getting involved. New research by the UK's largest automotive marketplace Auto Trader has revealed the top trending destinations and routes for a road trip on TikTok with Scotland named second only behind the USA.
America’s sweetheart! Julia Roberts‘ film career has spanned decades and genres, even earning her an Academy Award for her hard-hitting role in Erin Brockovich and charming audiences with her Golden Globe-winning part in Pretty Woman.
Hocus Pocus 2 set a record in Nielsen’s weekly streaming ratings, drawing more than 2.7 billion minutes of streaming from September 26 to October 2.
Apparently, Omri Katz was lighting a little more than just the black flame candle while working on Hocus Pocus! Ha!
Lighting the candle — or the pipe? Omri Katz opened up about his experience filming Hocus Pocus at sixteen, and how toking up on the job almost cost him the role.
Ryan Murphy’s mega-bucks deal with Netflix is looking like a very smart investment.
Fans of the Hocus Pocus films are going crazy for a new range of products from budget retailer Poundland.
returns to HBO, but that didn't stop the cable network from debuting new footage of season 4. In an extended look at what’s coming over during the 2022-2023 season, fans were treated to a brief look at undying patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) doing what he does best in the Emmy-winning family drama. «This is not the end,» an ecstatic Logan says, while speaking to employees at Waystar.
John Leguizamo criticized the upcoming "Super Mario" remake for lack of diversity in the movie's casting. In a since-deleted tweet he wrote, "So glad #SuperMarioBros is getting a reboot! Obviously, it's iconic enuff [sic]. " "But too bad they went all white! No Latinx in the leads! Groundbreaking colour-blind casting in original! Plus I'm the only one who knows how to make this movie work script-wise!" he added. Leguizamo also shared photos of himself playing Luigi and Bob Hoskins as Mario in the original film, which was released in 1993.