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Disney has struck a long-term agreement with British studio Pinewood. The Hollywood studio will take all the stages, backlots and other production accommodation at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. It's believed the deal between The Walt Disney Company and Pinewood is for ten-years. Disney has long produced feature…

Bette Midler will be taking the stage at the 91st Academy Awards. The Tony, Grammy and Emmy winner shared the news on Twitter Saturday that she’ll be performing “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns. “So, (drum roll) Ladies and Gentlemen, I will be chanteusing (that’s singing) on the Oscars on Feb…

In terms of Oscars won, Sandy Powell may be behind her peer, Colleen Atwood, down 3-4. But with dual nominations today for The Favourite and Mary Poppins Returns, the costume designer takes her career tally to 14, becoming the most-nominated living artist in her field. With three wins — for The Young Victoria, The Avia…

UPDATE, writethru: M. Night Shyamalan's Glass took the top spot at the international box office this weekend with $48.5M in 55 markets. That's right in line with pre-weekend projections and positions the Blumhouse pic at 13% ahead of its predecessor, Split. Disney, which handled the first movie in Shyamalan's Eastrail…

From his beginnings working in the theater to perhaps becoming (along with Bill Condon and Marc Platt) the leading force behind the resurgence of musical movies, Rob Marshall is riding high with his latest, Mary Poppins Returns. In a career that includes dramatic Oscar-winning movies like Memoirs of a Geisha and…

When Rob Marshall took on the follow-up to Disney’s beloved behemoth Mary Poppins, it seemed a natural fit for the Oscar-winning Chicago director who's long upheld the value of musical film. But with over 50 years between the Robert Stevenson-directed original and Mary Poppins Returns, Marshall had his work cut out in…

Green Book director Peter Farrelly, accepting the Golden Globe for best film in the musical or comedy category, said the story about pianist Don Shirley and his Italian-American driver overcoming racial differences could offer a universal lesson. “If they can find common ground,” said Farrelly, who also wrote and exec…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: During a busy post-holiday holdover/expansion frame overseas, Warner Bros’ Aquaman showed his muscle again, cruising well past the $900M mark globally as he charts a course for $1B. After holding the No. 1 spot at the international box office for four straight weekends, however (and as…

5th Update, Sunday AM Writethru after Saturday and Friday updates: Even though it’s a quiet weekend at the box office after the mad holiday rush between Christmas and New Year’s Day, studios savor the first frame of the year given its great holdover business. Kids are still off from school (K-12 was 61% off on Friday…

If you want to start your day off with a bang, just invite Mary Poppins. That is what happened when director Rob Marshall and the cast of Disney’s smash hit Mary Poppins Returns, the sequel to Disney’s beloved classic 1964 Oscar-winning musical, took the stage at the DGA Theater in New York City last month as the…

5th Update, Wednesday AM: Warner Bros./DC’s Aquaman stayed very strong throughout the New Year’s Eve and Day holidays respectively earning $10.1M and $16.78M raising the pic’s stateside total to $216.2M at the domestic box office. In regards to the movie’s New Year’s Day haul, that’s more than what Jumanji: Welcome to…

Even as one of the film industry’s preeminent costume designers, a three-time Oscar winner with 12 nominations since 1994, Sandy Powell had a lot on her plate, signing up for Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns. A sequel to a 1964 classic, the Disney musical would require the designer to take Poppins into a new era…