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Hollywood sails to a box-office record, thanks to ‘Black Panther’ and other hits

December 26, 2018 at 11:54 a.m.

Deepening anxiety in Hollywood that the ascendance of Netflix would keep people from going to the movies this year appears to have been overblown. Major hits, including Marvel Studios’ “Black...

What Netflix’s release of ‘Roma’ says about its movie business strategy

December 11, 2018 at 4:45 p.m.

Alfonso Cuarón’s critically acclaimed film “Roma” — an intimate, black-and-white, Spanish-language feature about a middle-class Mexican family and their live-in nanny — seems an unlikely candidate for the role of...

"Wolverine" actor Hugh Jackman, left, talks to legendary comic book creator Stan Lee after an interview at Comic-Con International 2008 in San Diego.

3 ways Stan Lee helped create the modern superhero movie

June 13, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

By the time the Marvel Cinematic Universe experienced its Big Bang with the 2008 smash “Iron Man,” Stan Lee had long since retired from official duties at Marvel, settling into...

Some say differing reactions to sexually inappropriate comments made by Trump and James Gunn (not pictured) point to a double standard in Hollywood. Here, Trump is seen in a 2005 video frame with Arianne Zucker and Billy Bush. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)

James Gunn’s vulgar tweets reveal the power of social media to force Hollywood vigilance

December 12, 2018 at 6:20 p.m.

James Gunn runs on the quicksilver creativity that Hollywood craves: His “Guardians of the Galaxy” films were wild rides of clever asides, many delivered by a gun-toting raccoon, that were...

MovePass, in a dramatic attempt to stay afloat, is raising its prices and cutting access to new wide releases.

MoviePass shook up the film industry. Now it looks like the end is near.

December 17, 2018 at 4:09 p.m.

MoviePass was once the fastest rising star in Hollywood. The New York-based service promised to revolutionize the cinema business by offering something multiplexes have long resisted: steep discounts on the...

Alden Ehrenreich in "Solo: A Star Wars Story," which grossed $84 million in its first three days in theaters, missing analyst expectations during Memorial Day weekend. It also tumbled by 65% domestically in its second weekend.

As ‘Solo’ sputters, some are nervous about Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ future

December 13, 2018 at 5:47 a.m.

Until “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” Walt Disney Co.’s efforts to continue the long-running space opera series were virtually unassailable. Disney’s first three “Star Wars” movies, starting in 2015 with...

Byron Allen’s company acquires Weather Channel in $300-million deal

December 14, 2018 at 5:09 p.m.

Byron Allen, the comedian-turned-media entrepreneur, has acquired the Weather Channel cable network as he seeks to build his TV and film business, he announced Thursday. Allen’s Los Angeles-based media company,...

Maria Contreras-Sweet, shown in 2014, said the investment group she leads has terminated its Weinstein Co. deal.

Weinstein Co. deal collapses in yet another twist, pushing studio closer to bankruptcy

December 17, 2018 at 4:25 p.m.

The $500-million deal for an investor group to acquire Harvey Weinstein’s former movie and TV studio has collapsed — again — in yet another twist in the chaotic saga of...

Harvey Weinstein, former co-chairman of Weinstein Co. The studio said it will file for bankruptcy.

After sale talks collapse, Weinstein Co. headed to bankruptcy

August 22, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

The Weinstein Co., the New York studio co-founded by Harvey Weinstein, will file for bankruptcy protection after last-ditch talks to sell its assets to an investor group collapsed, the company’s...

A customer returns a DVD movie to a Redbox rental kiosk in Provo, Utah. A U.S. district judge in Los Angeles has dealt a setback to Disney in the studio's ongoing legal battle to stop Redbox from selling digital download codes.

Disney dealt setback in Redbox copyright dispute

December 14, 2018 at 9:48 p.m.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has dealt a serious setback to Walt Disney Co. in the studio’s ongoing legal battle to stop kiosk movie-rental company Redbox from selling digital...

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