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'Mean Girls' is the Queen Bee of the box office, opens to $28 million
Bebe Wood, Renee Rapp and Avantika Vandanapu star as The Plastics in the 2024 adaptation of “Mean Girls.” Paramount You go, Glen Coco. Paramount’s “Mean Girls,” a musical film adaptation of the Broadway show and beloved 2004 film of the same name, opened to an estimated $28 million at the domestic box office, on its […]
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Here's what Wall Street wants to see from Hollywood this year
Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images It’s the third act of the streaming wars. That’s the time a hero, seemingly beaten and broken, rises up and saves the day. But Wall Street is worried that hero may never come for Hollywood. Legacy media companies including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and Paramount Global […]
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Radio shows surprising resilience even in a rapidly changing media world
Airline passengers between flights patronize the iHeartRadio facility at Denver International Airport in Denver on Jan. 19, 2014. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images It’s a familiar refrain: “Legacy media is dead” — unless you’re talking about radio. Despite being one of the oldest media formats, dating back to the 1890s, radio has […]
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The 2024 box office is a franchise frenzy — at a time when audiences are feeling IP fatigue
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 […]
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How Disney made Star Wars the top film franchise of 2023 without a theatrical release
American actors Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford on the set of “Star Wars: A New Hope,” written, directed and produced by Georges Lucas. Sunset Boulevard | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The Force remains strong with the Star Wars franchise. Despite not releasing a theatrical film since 2019, Star Wars has been named […]
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From 'Barbenheimer' to Taylor Swift, here are the most important films of 2023 and why they worked
Movie posters for “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are pictured outside the Cinemark Somerdale 16 and XD in Somerdale, New Jersey, 2023. Hannah Beier | The Washington Post | Getty Images Call 2023 an explosive comeback at the box office. There were blonde bombshells, in “Barbie,” actual bombs, in “Oppenheimer,” and small-budget blockbusters — each of them […]
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'The Color Purple' wins the holiday box office with second-highest Christmas debut of all time
Taraji P. Henson stars in Warner Bros. “The Color Purple.” Warner Bros. Discovery It was a very Merry Christmas for Warner Bros. Discovery. With $18.15 million in box office receipts, the studio’s newest film “The Color Purple” had the highest Christmas Day opening since 2009 and the second-largest Christmas Day opening of all time. The […]
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2024 is shaping up to be the year of the streaming bundle
The atmosphere at the Disney Bundle Celebrating National Streaming Day at The Row in Los Angeles on May 19, 2022. Presley Ann | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images This year proved to be yet another tough one for pay TV, as more people cut the cable cord. But it wasn’t exactly kind to streaming […]
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ɺquaman and the Dropped Kingdom' has fourth-least expensive opening in DCEU franchise record
Jason Momoa stars as Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, in Warner Bros.’ “Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom.” Warner Bros. Discovery “Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom” puppy-paddled to a $28.1 million domestic opening, the fourth-most affordable in the history of the DC Prolonged Universe. The film was expected to open concerning $32 million and $42 million. As it […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery merger talks with Paramount Global may draw out NBCUniversal
Let’s say you have a crush on two people and you find out one of them may like you back. Do you just start dating that person, or do you find out what the other person thinks, too? That’s where Warner Bros. Discovery finds itself today. The company has held preliminary merger talks with Paramount […]
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