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EXCLUSIVE: For the first time since the February 1997 reissue, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is leading at the box office this weekend after clocking an estimated $175K at 483 locations. Empire should end the weekend with a 3-day take in-between the high $400K and low $500K. Some of these recent classic reissues…

Could Walt Disney be next? Really? Let me explain: Most industry people I know were drawn to Hollywood by the prospect of creating things, not cancelling things. Now the dialogue has shifted, whether about airports (John Wayne), statues (Teddy Roosevelt) or movies (Gone With the Wind). Could logos be next? Walt Disney…

Jude Law is in talks to play the villainous Captain Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy, Disney’s live-action update of its 1953 toon classic, Deadline has confirmed. David Lowery is directing the pic from a screenplay he wrote with Toby Halbrooks, based on the J.M. Barrie novel. The film, which stars Ever Anderson as Wendy and…

There’s nowhere to go and little to do this July 4 weekend (thanks, coronavirus!). But Disney+ has capitalized on the downtime to bring a streaming treat to masses with the debut last night of the Hamilton film version. The streaming Hamilton captures a 2016 performance with the original cast. As Deadline revealed…

Ford Motor Co. and the Walt Disney Co. have made a precedent-setting deal for a “roadblock” across all of Disney’s broadcast, cable, digital and streaming channels in prime time to unveil the new Bronco. On July 13, starting at 8PM ET, Ford will introduce the new Bronco lineup across Disney platforms. Three custom…

It's real but surreal: Hamilton, the hottest show of its generation, opens Friday as a streamer! There's no giant launch party, no massive media campaign. This will not be My Fair Lady time revisited. But the "non-event" is an appropriate metaphor for the challenges facing Hollywood in launching “new” product to a…

What to do with the kids while you enjoy Hamilton? The out-of-this-world animated movie Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe, from Disney Television Animation, will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on Friday, August 28. Executive-produced by the creators/executive producers of the Emmy Award-winning…

Deadline has learned from sources on the ground in Sydney, Australia that Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is looking to restart filming later this month at Fox Studios.  The Destin Daniel Cretton-directed film is in prep now, and our Sydney source says that Marvel is taking “careful steps.&#8221…

Considering the worldwide phenomenon that Hamilton has become since its 2015 Broadway debut, it didn’t seem all that crazy to me when Deadline announced that Disney had paid $75 million for theatrical rights to the filmed version of the stage musical and that it would be a major release in theaters next year. However…

The Disney catalog joined Universal’s this weekend in playing whatever theaters were open at the box office as the majority of exhibition’s 5,9K theaters remain shuttered nationwide due to COVID-19. Overall, ticket sales continued to be distressed. Disney’s 2016 Oscar-winning hit Zootopia took the top spot with an…

In addition to the July 3 release of the filmed version of the Tony-winning musical Hamilton, Disney+ and TheUndefeated.com will put more shine on the groundbreaking musical with the special The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth with Kelley Carter, which will debut on the same day. In the first collaboration…

A special teaser video is out celebrating the forthcoming debut of the filmed version of Broadway smash hit Hamilton, which bows July 3 on Disney+. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical was filmed at The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016 and stars Daveed Diggs as Marquis de…