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UPDATED with more details: Just days after the first court hearing in Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow profits mega-bite lawsuit on Disney was pushed back to March 2022, the Oscar nominee and the House of Mouse have made peace — and it was pricey for the latter. "I am happy to have resolved our differences with…

The Disney+ schedule for November 2021 is packed with programming from the Disney mothership, Pixar and Marvel, including a stocking full of early holiday offerings. The biggest event of the month on the streamer will undoubtedly be Disney+ Day, a celebration of the service on November 12. It will include the streaming…

Coincidentally, this morning at Goldman Sachs’ 30th annual Communacopia Conference, Disney CEO Bob Chapek was asked a question about the compensation of Hollywood talent in the wake of long-standing distribution models being upended and the advantages the studio has in terms of being a place that talent wants to work…

Before the industry could calculate summer 2021’s final box office figures, they had to wait for Disney, which had the final say. Because when you have a Marvel movie like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings programmed during the final weekend of the season, and it delivers a Labor Day holiday opening of $94.67…

With a strong $1.9 million box office on Thursday night for Candyman, things are looking pretty sweet today for Colman Domingo.  The Fear the Walking Dead vet joins us for our Hero Nation podcast to discuss the new horror movie executive produced by Jordan Peele, the issues it raises and the places the Nia…

Wandavision star Elizabeth Olsen has voiced her support for Scarlett Johansson amid her lawsuit against Disney, surrounding the release of her Marvel blockbuster, Black Widow. “I think she's so tough and literally when I read that I was like, ‘good for you Scarlett,'” the actress said during a conversation with Ted Las…

UPDATE, 8:44 AM: As anyone who has seen a Marvel movie or read the comics knows, the Black Widow moves fast and deadly – – and that’s exactly what Scarlett Johansson did this morning. “After initially responding to this litigation with a misogynistic attack against Scarlett Johansson, Disney is now, predictably…

UPDATED with additional details from Disney earnings call: The revenue for Black Widow wasn't to be found in Disney's last earnings report Thursday, but the fallout from Scarlett Johansson's explosive lawsuit against the House of Mouse certainly was. Showing a surge in Disney+ subscribers from the same time last year…

SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris on Friday weighed in on behalf of the actors union on Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit alleging that Disney violated her contract for her role in Black Widow. Johansson filed the lawsuit last week claiming that the studio breached her contract by releasing the Marvel movie Black…

Manifest booked a fourth straight week atop Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart as fans continued to hold out hope for a potential series revival. The show was one of four titles with more than 1 billion total minutes of viewing during the week of July 5 to 11. Virgin River, a Netflix original whose third season debuted…

"When I started Arrow, if you are thinking of things like a pie chart, it was 90% about the creativity, and it was 10% about being able to eventually buy a house and pay a mortgage," says Stephen Amell on today’s Hero Nation podcast of his thinking behind exiting the long running CW series a few years ago. "By the…

UPDATE, writethru: In its global launch, Disney's Jungle Cruise grossed $61.8M at worldwide turnstiles this weekend. That does not include the "over $30M" that came from Disney+ in the day-and-date streaming release (which leads to a $91.8M worldwide start as Anthony has reported). In pure theatrical terms, the Dwayne…