Disney has unveiled an aggressive marketing strategy for what is shaping up to be one of next year’s most consequential comic book movies. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that a new Avengers: Doomsday trailer will be attached to Avatar: Fire and Ash over four consecutive weeks.
Anticipation for the final episodes of Netflix’s Stranger Things is reaching a fever pitch. A new trailer for season 5, volume 2, released Monday morning, shows just how high the stakes have risen as the Hawkins gang confronts an apocalyptic threat.
It’s been a decade since Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson were in a in a Hunger Games film. But Deadline has confirmed the pair is preparing for a return to Panem for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel set 24 years before Katniss’s story began. Francis Lawrence, who has directed every Hunger Games film since Catching Fire (2013), will return to helm the project.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is getting ready to blow the doors off the Chinese box office. After years of tension between the U.S. and Chinese film industries, a new era may be on the horizon.
In what some are calling a reflection of the laughable state of U.S. journalism, comedian Jon Stewart will be honored at this year’s Walter Cronkite Awards from USC Annenberg. Other honorees include Rachel Maddow, Scott Pelley, Peter Alexander, and Julio Vaqueiro. Conspicuously absent are conservative or centrist journalists. The Dean of the school is also none other than the wife of Disney CEO Bob Iger.
In a Thursday morning interview with CNBC, Disney CEO Bob Iger was asked for his thoughts on the battle being waged for Warner Bros. Like everyone else, Iger is watching from the sidelines — but unlike most, he’s orchestrated major studio mergers himself.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has received his first Golden Globes nomination. The wrestler-turned-actor, long known for bombastic action movies, had been looking to pivot into more serious roles for some time. Now, Johnson finds himself sharing the Best Actor category with some of Hollywood’s biggest talents.
Fans got their first look at Miley Alcock’s Supergirl in action with the release of the film’s first trailer. In two minutes, viewers were introduced to Kara Zor-El and a new corner of the DC Universe (DCU). While the movie was written by Ana Nogueira (based on a story by Tom King), and directed by Craig Gillespie, producer James Gunn’s fingerprints are all over the place.
Late last week, Netflix struck an $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. However, a recent report from Bloomberg suggests that before the Warner Bros. bidding war started, the streaming giant had flirted with the idea of pursuing EA Games, Fox (before the Disney merger), or Disney itself.
The Golden Globes nominees were announced Monday morning with some surprise picks for the year’s best in television and film, and some even more surprising snubs. Among the most shocking names not appearing as prominently — or in one case, not appearing at all — are the film Wicked: For Good and actress Sydney Sweeney.
What David Ellison and Paramount did Monday morning — issuing a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery for $108 billion — sent shockwaves through the industry. Now that the dust has settled, analysts are working through how Paramount was able to make such a monumental all-cash offer.
Paramount, led by David Ellison, isn’t giving up its bid to win Warner Bros. Late last week the Warner Bros. board announced it had accepted an $82.7 billion proposal from Netflix. It’s an offer Ellison tells shareholders is an “inferior proposal.” He has since launched an attempted hostile takeover after the historically brutal bidding war.