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Disney’s Stars Wars: The Force Awakens was previously the fastest film to hit $100M at the box office, doing so in 21 hours, and now Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame has busted that record and notched the century mark in 17 hours. Essentially, the $60M record previews for Endgame were counted starting at 5PM from fan…

The scene was emblematic: Appearing this week before assembled TV critics, the programming boss of HBO set aside his customary vows to dominate the awards landscape, promising instead that HBO would defeat any pressures to "change our culture.” His aim: to respond to reports that HBO's new proprietor, AT&T, was…

Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War cleared the $300 million mark at the domestic box office in five days, a feat equaled previously only by Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December 2015, making both movies the fastest to that threshold. Yesterday, Infinity War grossed an estimated $23.5M, down 5% from Monday’s…

For a third year in a row, Disney is rejuvenating the year-end holiday box office with a Star Wars movie. This time it’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which is poised to clear between $424 million-$440 million worldwide by the end of its first frame. In the U.S. and Canada, industry projections have had The Last…

Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling!”, the hit song from DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls, has just scored a Grammy Award as early winners are being announced ahead of tonight’s primetime ceremony on CBS hosted by James Corden. Among the visual media categories that encompass film and TV, Ron Howard’s The Beatles…

Write-thru Friday, 9:10 AM on Wed AM: With a full two weeks under its belt, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has now logged $687.7M in global returns. The Rebel Alliance now counts $312.5M at the international box office after a $19.7M Tuesday that was 8.2% bigger than its Monday haul and a big $17.3M…

Carrie Fisher, who died today at age 60, reprised her iconic role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and had already completed the next feature in the franchise, Star Wars: Episode VIII, a source close to the production told Deadline. It was expected the actress would return for Star Wars: Episode…

One of the most iconic figures in modern film history is gone. Carrie Fisher, the actress known worldwide for portraying Princess Leia Organa in the Star Wars saga and for her second-act reinvention as a novelist, diarist, screenwriter and in-demand script doctor, has died four days after suffering a heart attack…

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has edged out cousin Star Wars: The Force Awakens in its first Tuesday hold overseas — percentage-wise. With $16M yesterday, Disney/Lucasfilm's standalone franchise spinoff saw a 1.3% increase in offshore markets versus its Monday ticket sales tally. Last year, on TFA's first Tuesday, that…

UPDATE: Tonight while everyone was sleeping off their Thanksgiving dinner, advance ticketing platform Atom Tickets dropped news about a Rogue: Star Wars Story promotional tie-in, and in doing so, revealed when U.S. advance tickets are set to go on sale: It’s Monday, Nov. 28, a week after tickets became available in…

UK-based Foodles Production, the Disney-owned production company behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens that admitted to health and safety breaches following the accident that crushed Harrison Ford's leg at Pinewood Studios in 2014, has been fined $1.95 million (£1.6 million). The sentencing for violating the UK’s Health…

“I see you shiver with antici … pation!” That line from The Rocky Horror Picture Show defines the apparently serious pent-up demand for more Christian and Anastasia. Universal said today that its first trailer for Fifty Shades Darker, the second film adaptation from E L James’ juggernaut book trilogy, was viewed a…