Pua Magasiva, who played the Red Ranger on "Power Rangers Ninja Storm," was found dead Saturday in New Zealand. Police arriving at a Wellington, New Zealand residence early on Saturday founder Magasive unresponsive, according to a <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12229976"…

Hasbro has reached a deal to acquire Haim Saban’s flagship Saban’s Power Rangers property along with other entertainment brands including My Pet Monster, Popples, Julius Jr., Luna Petunia and Treehouse Detectives in a cash-and-stock pact valued at $522 million. The toymaker previously paid Saban Brands $22.25 million…

UPDATED 4:50 PM with comments from execs during conference call with analysts: Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told Wall Street analysts during today’s earnings conference call that developing programming for Starz was the company’s biggest priority for the rest of 2017 and beyond. The company earlier had posted solid…

Writethru Sunday, 8:00 AM: Sunday estimates are in and we have a new boss at the top of  the box office with DreamWorks Animation’s 34th title The Boss Baby will cash an opening weekend check of $50.3M at 3,773 theaters via 20th Century Fox. (Fox thinks it’ll end the weekend with $49M). Disney’s Beauty and the…

Having pleaded down from potentially spending the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing his roommate to death in 2015, former Power Rangers actor Ricardo Medina today was given just over half of the maximum sentence available. In a hearing Thursday, LA Superior Court Judge Daviann Mitchell hit Medina with six…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: The international box office waltz was led again this frame by Disney's Beauty And The Beast with a $120.6M sophomore session – up $1.4M from Sunday's estimate and down less than 35% from opening last weekend. The global cume is $693.5M through Sunday, making the Bill Condon-directed…

4th Writethru Sunday AM following Saturday 11:45PM post: If there’s a tale as old as time at the box office this weekend, it’s the non-stop trend that premium brands are much bigger stars than the talent on the poster. Disney says Beauty and the Beast‘s second weekend is $88.3M, but the industry believes it’s higher…

Power Rangers? Twenty-four years later on the big screen? In the wake of such mega young adult hits like Hunger Games and Twilight, Power Rangers may initially have appeared as a desperate attempt by Lionsgate to find the millennials they’ve lost. And talk about a risk: the original feature film Mighty Morphin’ Power R…

ComScore is reporting this morning that the March box office is hitting an all-time record of $1 billion thanks to momentum of such tentpoles as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 20th Century Fox’s Logan, Legendary/Warner Bros.’ Kong: Skull Island and Lionsgate’s Saban’s Power Rangers.  This month easily blows away last…

EXCLUSIVE: Saban’s Power Rangers movie has banded with Thirst Project, the largest youth-water activism organization, in the campaign #TogetherWeAreMore to raise money and awareness about the global water crisis. Currently, more than 663 million people on the planet do not have access to safe, clean drinking water…

Three new major studio releases this weekend will find it impossible to cut into Beauty and the Beast‘s dance at the box office, which is well on its way to crossing $300M. The live action Disney musical has already accumulated $206.2M after $17.9M yesterday, charting the best pre-summer Tuesday of all-time (the…

Over two years after Ricardo Medina's roommate was stabbed to death, the ex-Power Rangers actor pleaded guilty today to killing Josh Sutter. With sentencing set for March 30, Medina could face up to six years in state prison. While no picnic, to say the least, that's a far cry from the life sentence Medina was looking…