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Disney’s Mulan boarded tracking this morning and is seeing a 3-day domestic start around $85M when it hits theaters on March 27. Some believe the live action remake of the 1998 musical animated pic has a shot to get to $100M+ based on tracking diagnostics and comparative titles, but the looming outbreak of the…

"The impact in 2020 from Covid-19 (coronavirus) on the motion picture business cannot be overstated," a finance source recently told us. That's as the closure of cinemas in China alone is approaching a loss of $2B to the global box office, while the disease has now seen spikes in Korea and Italy. What looked in late…

After conquering the box office last year with industry records of $3.76 billion domestic, $11.1B global off a slate of big IP, Disney comes alive on March 27 with their first live-action feature of the year, the reboot of animated classic Mulan. Today they dropped another trailer during the Big Game for the Niki…

After dropping the teaser trailer for next year's Mulan last July, Disney has released a new look at the live-action remake of the 1998 animated story about a young woman who risks everything to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known. When the original teaser dropped during half time of the Women's…

Disney’s loaded feature film presentation Saturday at the D23 Expo in Anaheim included a program loaded with stars and directors promoted the studio’s upcoming slate, from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to The Eternals (and newcomer Kit Harington) and Pixar’s Soul (and newly announced voice cast including Jamie Foxx…

As pro-democracy protests continued in the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday despite threats of Beijing’s military force, the Walt Disney Company could find itself caught between the two sides, on and off-screen. Disney has continually demonstrated a forward-thinking approach when it comes to doing business in China and…

Liu Yifei, the star of Disney’s upcoming live-action iteration of Mulan, is under fire for recent comments she posted on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo supposedly supporting the Hong King Police Force who have been accused of using excessive force against protestors and journalists. Yifei, who is…

Australian actor Chum Ehelepola, who plays the roguish Ramtish in Disney's upcoming live-action Mulan, has signed with APA. Born in New Zealand and raised in Sri Lanka and Australia, Ehelepola co-starred in the Australian series The Surgeon opposite Sam Worthington, and The Straits opposite Brian Cox. He also starred…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney dropped the teaser trailer for next year’s Mulan during half-time of the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday, and the world took notice. In its first 24 hours, the first-look logged 175.1M online views, topping all Disney Live Action comps save The Lion King which roared to a record 224M in its debut…

The first teaser trailer and poster for Disney's Mulan have arrived. The live action tale of a young woman who risks everything out of love for her family and her country to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known opens in US theaters on March 27, 2020. When the Emperor of China issues a decree that…

At Disney’s first CineEurope presentation since it acquired Fox, execs offered a select look at the combined slate here in Barcelona this evening. The session, which followed on from the combined CinemaCon presentation in April, included a first-ever (work-in-progress) trailer for live-action adaptation Mulan, new…

Adrian Martinez, last seen opposite Amy Schumer in the comedy I Feel Pretty, has secured the role of Elliot, a dog-catcher, in Disney's live-action/CG hybrid update of the animated classic Lady and the Tramp. Martinez joins Kiersey Clemons, Thomas Mann, Yvette Nicole Brown as part of the live cast along with Tessa…