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6TH UPDATE, Sunday 10:14AM after 8AM post: After a lengthy three years which saw a change-up in two directors, various screenwriters and supporting actors, Marvel's Ant-Man finally opened to $58M. Industry figures for the Disney release are at $57.37M. Worldwide, the pic with a $114.4M opening is less than a $1M shy of…

4TH UPDATE, MONDAY 3 PM PT: Studios have weighed in with overseas actuals for the past weekend that was led by Guardians Of The Galaxy. There were no major discrepancies between what was estimated on Sunday and what's coming across today save for Hercules lifting to $15.4M from a $14.2M estimate. Among the other top…

After last week’s tumult on ABC‘s lady chat show The View, the network’s parent co. Disney is changing the conversation – to comic books. Disney-owned Marvel teased today that they’ll announce “an all-new thundering title” Tuesday morning on The View, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and the departing Sherri Shepherd and…

EXCLUSIVE: This announcement just went out to retailers. It’s the last shoe to drop stemming from the Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of Marvel Entertainment and its takeover of Paramount Pictures‘ entire worldwide marketing and distribution deal with Marvel. All of the home entertainment distribution rights…

EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: Sources now tell me that all three female executives in employments disputes with the Walt Disney Co have settled — including one today. This is many months after the women lost their jobs in a Department Of Consumer Products reorganization set in motion nearly a year ago by Marvel boss Ike Perlmutte…

The Avengers is the first Marvel Studios film owned, marketed and distributed by The Walt Disney Studios which took over those duties from Paramount this year. So is Paramount left out in the cold even though Avengers is sizzling hot at the box office? The answer is no. Disney CEO/President Bob Iger in 2009 bought the…

EXCLUSIVE: Everybody is trying to keep this secret. But I’ve learned that yesterday Disney canned Dana Precious, EVP of Worldwide Marketing for Marvel’s LA Studios (she had replaced Doug Finberg at the end of last summer); Jeffrey Stewart, VP of Worldwide Marketing (he’d been brought in by Dana); and Jodi Miller…

EXCLUSIVE: Intellectual property lawyer Marc Toberoff has a winning track record when he goes after Hollywood studios on behalf of rightsholders. But not today. I’ve just learned that he lost big in Federal Court for the Southern District Of New York after suing  Disney/Marvel for the Jack Kirby Estate. The federal…