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Incredibles 2 is already breaking records and it’s only in previews. Fandango reports that the Pixar sequel has beat Finding Dory for the best presales record for an animated pic in the ticket seller’s 18-year history. Incredibles 2 played exclusively in Imax last night at 6pm (those grosses are un-reported)…

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…

Finding Dory star Ellen DeGeneres has offered a very public – but very targeted – film analysis on her daytime talk show. Knowing that President Donald Trump hosted a screening of the animated film over the weekend, the-voice-of-Dory pointed out an immigration lesson she hopes he didn’t miss. (Watch the video below.)…

Why did it take more than a decade for Disney’s Pixar to make a sequel to the beloved Oscar-winning animated feature Finding Nemo? As producer Lindsey Collins explained here at our Contenders event, the think tank at Pixar actually stumbled upon it. After watching Nemo again for a 3D restoration five years ago…

During a year when the leading Republican presidential candidate won the head office off an inflammatory rhetoric and a groundswell of bigoted hate group support, along comes a Disney movie that promotes equality and battles fear-based sentiment. Animated films take years to make, so how did the filmmakers behind Zooto…

"Reality ends here." So reads an inscription in the cement outside the old quarters of the University of Southern California film school. But that might also become the epitaph for this year's best-selling movies. Unless the audience radically changes its behavior in the next few weeks, 2016 is poised to become the…

Just a few short days ago, The Walt Disney Studios posted its biggest year of all time at the global box office, landing $5.851B to best the 2015 full-year record. Now, thanks to the spellbinding Doctor Strange, the Mouse has topped itself once again by speeding past the $6B mark — hitting it for the first time in the…

Osnat Shurer knows good fortune when it strikes. At Deadline’s Contenders event today, the producer of the highly-anticipated animated musical Moana talked about how the project landed Broadway’s hottest name in years: Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Talk bout lucky, right?" Shurer said about Miranda, who cowrote some of the…

In mid-October, the Walt Disney Studios clocked its best year ever at international turnstiles. Two weeks later, the Mouse now has posted its biggest year of all time at the global box office with $5.851B through November 1. That beats the studio’s own previous record of $5.843B, which was for the full 2015 calendar…

On the heels of such hits as Captain America: Civil War, Zootopia, The Jungle Book and Finding Dory, the Walt Disney Studios has clocked its best year ever at the international box office — and there are still another two and a half months to go in 2016. Through October 16, the offshore total on all Disney releases is…

Now in weekend 16, Disney/Pixar's forgetful blue tang has flapped her fins across the $1B global box office line. The domestic cume on Finding Dory through today is $484.8M with international at $516.7M. Alongside Toy Story 3, the film is Pixar's second billion-dollar release as well as the Walt Disney Studios' fourth…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: The international box office got a boost this weekend, jumping 110% from last frame across the Top 10 titles, and dipping just 6% versus the similar session last year. There were two major overseas openings for Hollywood, with a raft of hot local movies in the mix around the globe — many with savvy…