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We’ve confirmed that it’s true: Marvel is looking to close a deal with Sam Raimi to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness following Scott Derrickson’s departure from the project. Derrickson will remain an executive producer on the sequel. The sequel was announced at San Diego Comic-Con last summer, with…

Scott Derrickson is set to return as the director of Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange sequel, which has Benedict Cumberbatch reprising his role as the title character, who was last seen disintegrating into dust-like particles at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Stephen Strange was a brilliant but arrogant neurosurgeon…

Steve Ditko, a comic-book artist who co-created the Marvel characters Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Stan Lee, has died in New York. He was 90. The NYPD public information officer told Deadline that he was found in his apartment on June 29 and likely had been dead for a couple of days. Ditko studied art at the…

Near the home of his Sherlock BBC TV character, Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the fictional detective, took a real-life leap into action, proving that his portrayal of a hero in Avengers: Infinity War and Doctor Strange may not be just a role. Cumberbatch reportedly rescued a London delivery bicyclist who was being…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Oscar nominated for their labors on Marvel’s Doctor Strange, visual effects supervisors Stephane Ceretti and Richard Bluff are emblematic of the magic their craft can bring to big screen endeavors. Injecting magic into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring film, the pair had an important…

UPDATE, TUESDAY WRITETHRU with actuals: There were a lot of moving parts to the international box office this frame with Chinese New Year titles taking the Top 3 spots and setting a new single-day record. Sony’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter came in tops for Hollywood with an added $26.8M for an offshore cume of…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE, Writethru with actuals: Scoring a hat trick at the international box office, Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them led for the 3rd frame in a row, whipping past new benchmarks this session. Newt Scamander and his errant creatures grabbed another $61.4M in 67 markets, up $1M in the…

With $2,491.4M at the domestic box office through today, The Walt Disney Studios has set a new industry record. The Mouse tops the previous record of $2.45B which Universal revved up in 2015. Overseas, Disney has crossed the $4B threshold for the first time in the studio's history with $4,079.5M. Universal last year…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has drawn up its trimmed list of 20 films vying for Visual Effects Oscar nominations. As usual, the list is peppered with big-budget pics — some of which were massive hits (Deadpool, The Jungle Book, Fantastic Beasts, etc.), some that underperformed (Alice Through the Loo…

UPDATE, TUESDAY AM PT, writethru with actuals: Coming out of its 2nd overseas weekend, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them zoomed past the $300M mark at the international box office. Billowing to a confirmed $318.6M cume off of a higher than estimated $132.5M at offshore turnstiles, the Warner Bros…

Disney/Marvel's Doctor Strange passed into the $600M+ dimension this weekend with a total $616M worldwide through Sunday. This was the 5th offshore frame for the Sorcerer Supreme and added $9.8M at the international box office ($410.9M cume to date), plus $13.4M for the domestic 3-day ($205.1M cume to date). That…