Paramount's owners were hoping they'd be firmly in control of rival Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of this week. Monday's temporary restraining order puts that plan on hold.
Disney poured a reported $250 million into its live-action "Moana" remake, and the return so far is not encouraging. The film opened at No. 1 domestically over the weekend of July 11, 13 with an estimated $43 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, a figure that, for a quarter-billion-dollar production anchored by Dwayne Johnson, […] The post Disney's live-action 'Moana' remake lands at No. 1 but delivers a weak $43 million opening appeared first on American Almanac .
Disney poured a reported $250 million into its live-action "Moana" remake, and the return so far is not encouraging. The film opened at No. 1 domestically over the weekend of July 11, 13 with an estimated $43 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, a figure that, for a quarter-billion-dollar production anchored by Dwayne Johnson, lands well below the kind of blockbuster territory the studio needed. Add in $52 million from 50 international markets and the global opening weekend comes to $95 million. That sounds like a lot of money until you measure it against what Disney spent to make the picture, and what the animated franchise pulled in not long ago. The animated sequel "Moana 2" opened to $225 million domestically over Thanksgiving…Open
The lawsuit is a serious threat to Paramount CEO David Ellison's bid to transform his company into a major competitor to Netflix and Disney.
California is among the states suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation's largest movie studios and TV newsrooms.
The lawsuit, filed by California and 11 other states, argues that the deal would harm movie theaters and damage America’s entertainment industry.
Friends and advisers of Paramount CEO David Ellison have been pushing him to consider shifting business elsewhere
State attorneys general are said to be getting ready to file a lawsuit as soon as this week to halt the $111 billion deal, a potential major obstacle.
Johnson joins fellow stars Auli'i Cravalho and Catherine Laga'aia to take viewers behind the scenes of the live-action adaptation of the classic animated film.
Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky