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Disney CFO Christine McCarthy addressed the controversy over Mulan, which critics accuse of indirectly favoring the oppression of Uighur Muslims in China, noting the uproar has created “a lot of issues.” Authorities in the Xinjiang province, an area where Uighurs have been detained in mass internment camps, authorized…

The controversy surrounding Disney's live-action update on 1998 animated classic Mulan is heating up just as the film is about to be released in China. In recent days, backlash outside the Middle Kingdom has increased over a line in the movie's credits roll that reportedly thanks the Xinjiang authorities, including…

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond anticipates streamers will become more active in exhibition as the post-COVID business shakes out and said his team is turning gray at the stress of constantly shifting release schedules — even as Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is thinking of pushing Wonder Woman 1984 to late December. "One…

TUESDAY UPDATE, with Tenet actuals: Due to the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., Warner Bros held off reporting Tenet actuals until late Tuesday, and included the Monday international box office numbers. The weekend came in at $57.8M in 44 offshore markets, and adding in grosses from Monday, the overseas cume $132.1M. Chi…

UPDATED with closing price On a downbeat day on Wall Street, Disney shares posted a 2% gain after a resoundingly positive verdict on the company’s streaming progress by one media analyst. The stock closed the day at $134.20 after earlier in the trading session flirting with its highest closing price in more than six…

Warner Bros. long-awaited Christopher Nolan movie Tenet finally opened in the US, and together with its Canadian run, which began last weekend, rang up $20.2M to date at 2,810 theaters. All-in, the time travel, 2 1/2 hour spy thriller has clocked almost $150M to date. Since movie theaters closed down nationwide…

Disney’s “Premier Access” release today of Mulan is available for purchase within the Disney+ app on Amazon Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices, the companies said, as a result of an eleventh-hour deal. No details were released about the pact, but it closes an important gap in terms of enabling payments for Disney+…

It’s a big Labor Day weekend for Ann Sarnoff at WarnerMedia. She recently celebrated her first year anniversary as the first woman to oversee Warner Bros in its 97-year history on August 22 (coincidentally on the same day as the studio’s DC FanDome day, which drew 22 million global visitors), and she heads into a…

It may not have the songs or much of the comedy of Disney’s 1998 animated hit, but Mulan, the studio’s live-action retelling of the tale of female empowerment and triumph, gets the point across in its own way. Rather than a straight-on remake like many of the previous Disney live-action reincarnations of its animated…

With 12,000 screens back up and running, Tenet is set to reignite the U.S. box office this weekend with an expected $20 million haul. Meanwhile, Mulan will be a premium offering to 60 million Disney+ subscribers. Is there room for both to flourish? Additionally, what’s the outlook when they go head-to-head next…

Mulan will be released to all Disney+ subscribers at no extra charge on December 4, three months after it begins its run at $30 exclusively through the streaming service. Instead of labeling it a premium video on demand (PVOD) release, Disney created a new category for the $200 million tentpole: Premier Access. Any…

How seemingly fitting it is to have the box office prospects for a time-travel thriller like Warner Bros’ Tenet changing in real time. That’s not to say that opening-weekend projections are going in reverse, rather, the last-minute reopenings of theaters in New Jersey, Maryland and some parts of California are…