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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Micron, Pioneer Natural Resources, Block, AMC and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Micron Technology — Micron Technology's shares gained 8% after its rival Samsung Electronics announced that it plans to cut memory chip production in the near term. Excelerate Energy , EQT and other gas stocks — Shares of Excelerate Energy, EQT and other gas stocks ticked higher as natural gas futures climbed. Apple's stock price lost 2%, Google-parent Alphabet shed 2.8% and Microsoft lost 1.4%. New Fortress Energy — The stock gained 4% after Deutsche Bank initiated New Fortress as a buy. AMC's stock price popped 6.7%, IMAX soared by 2% and Cinemark gained 5.7%.

☆ Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing Harry Potter back as it closes in on a deal for a new TV series, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Warner Bros. Discovery is close to a deal for a new Harry Potter TV series, per Bloomberg. The people, who asked not to be identified because the deal is yet to be announced, said Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Meanwhile, the overall Harry Potter franchise which includes books, toys, and games has earned $15 billion, Insider reported in 2021.

☆ Disney has bigger problems than Ron DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But there are problems with spinning off ESPN, even if it would raise cash and allow Disney to trim debt. Labor painsUnionized rank-and-file workers at Disney World last week voted 96% against a contract offer from Disney that would have given them raises of at least $1 a year over the next five years. The company called the rejected wage proposal a “very strong offer.”But the last thing that Iger or Disney needs is to upset the strong demand for travel to Disney World or other park locations. Political battles in FloridaThe political culture wars are yet another headache for Iger, as Disney faces the possible loss of the powers it has to operate as a government-like entity for the land on which Disney World operates. “We are monitoring the progression of the draft legislation, which is complex given the long history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District,” said Jeff Vahle, president, Walt Disney World Resort.

☆ Film academy reviewing Oscar campaigns after surprise nomination
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Lisa Richwine | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Hollywood's film academy said on Friday it was reviewing this year's campaigns for Oscar nominations, a day after a media report raised questions about the surprise nod for British actress Andrea Riseborough. Media newsletter Puck reported on Thursday that the unexpected nomination had sparked questions about whether an aggressive campaign for Riseborough had violated lobbying rules set by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The academy limits how studios can reach out to voters, how often and what they can say in any communications as part of their Oscars campaigns. Dozens of A-list stars then "sang her praises and helped win her the coveted nomination," Puck said. "We have confidence in the integrity of our nomination and voting procedures, and support genuine grassroots campaigns for outstanding performances," the academy statement said.

☆ 2022's best picture nominees are the most popular Oscar contenders in over a decade thanks to 'Top Gun' and 'Avatar 2'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This year's batch of Oscar best picture nominees has the biggest box office total since 2009. The 2009 group totaled $1.74 billion at the North American box office. Plus, since 2009, the Oscars have gone from 10 best picture nominees, to between five and 10, and since last year, back to a full 10. The chart below shows the North American box-office totals for each group of best picture nominees since 2009. The biggest movie of a given year hasn't won best picture since "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" in 2003.

☆ In 2023 Oscar Nominations, Blockbusters Back in Best-Picture Mix
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Nate Rattner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Commercial success doesn’t always lead to recognition on the Hollywood awards circuit, but several of 2022’s biggest box-office hits are up for the most prestigious trophy at the 95th Academy Awards. “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” are the two top-grossing films at domestic box offices among all titles released in 2022, according to Box Office Mojo. Both received a best-picture nomination Tuesday. Biopic “Elvis” is also up for the award and ranks 11th in lifetime grosses among 2022 releases.

HONG KONG — Marvel films are set to be released on screens in mainland China for the first time in more than three years, the endgame for an apparent ban in the world’s second-largest movie market. The China Film Administration, a division of the ruling Communist Party’s propaganda department that approves all foreign film releases, gave no official explanation for the blocking of those films. Marvel’s brief announcement did not mention the earlier films or say why “Black Panther” and “Ant-Man” were being released. Marvel fans in China welcomed news of the two new releases. Others lamented the films that had not made it to Chinese theaters.

☆ China lets Marvel movies back in, sets dates for Black Panther, Ant-Man sequels
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Danielle Broadway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LOS ANGELES, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) Marvel Studios on Tuesday announced February release dates for "Black Panther" and "Ant-Man" sequels in China, marking the first time in nearly four years that the Communist country has allowed Marvel movies into its cinemas. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" will arrive in Chinese theaters on Feb. 7 followed by "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" on Feb. 17, Marvel announced on Chinese social media network Weibo. "Wakanda: Forever," the sequel to 2018's blockbuster hit "Black Panther," debuted in global theaters in November. The first "Black Panther" took in $105 million at Chinese theaters, while the second "Ant-Man" movie generated $121 million, according to Box Office Mojo. The February releases will be the first Marvel films to play in Chinese theaters since "Spider-Man: Far from Home" in July 2019.

☆ 'Avatar 2' soars past 'Top Gun' with $1.5 billion to become highest-grossing film of 2022, and it's already the 10th biggest movie ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"Avatar: The Way of Water" has surpassed "Maverick's" box office haul in just its first three weeks in theaters, raking in an astonishing $1.51 billion worldwide since Dec. 16 according to Box Office Mojo data. Box office watchers don't expect "Avatar 2" to slow down any time soon. Along with the original "Avatar" ($2.92 billion) and "Titanic" ($2.2 billion), Cameron has now directed three of the 10 biggest blockbusters ever. "The first movie famously just kept going and going and going." "Avatar's" box office dominance wasn't a given from the outset.

☆ From 'Elf' to 'Home Alone', these are the 10 highest grossing Christmas movies ever—and where to watch them
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Christmas movies are a dime a dozen, with more than 150 premiering this holiday season alone. But some entries in the crowded category have been big enough to become box-office hits in their own right, grossing hundreds of millions of dollars on their way to becoming timeless classics. Since the turn of the century alone, seven Christmas movies have grossed more than $200 million at the worldwide box office, with four of those crossing the $300 million threshold. If you're looking to fill up your holiday movie-watching calendar with the biggest Christmas films out there, look no further. These are the 10 highest grossing Christmas movies ever, according to data from Box Office Mojo, as well as where you can stream them.

☆ The media business is in turmoil — but its stocks may be close to bottoming
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Wall Street, for what it’s worth, seems to think the worst is over for the streaming leader after it finally decided to cave and launch an ad-supported service. And what’s more, many media companies are in the midst of layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, including CNN and its parent Warner Bros. But Wall Street is certainly more bullish about the prospects for media stocks. Wall Street is predicting that Warner Bros. So even though it feels like there’s still more bad news to come, media stocks may have already hit the bottom.

☆ Christina Ricci's collection of Chanel bags helped fund her divorce: 'I learned to use these investment pieces in different ways'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Christina Ricci told the Sunday Times Style that she had to sell off her Chanel bag and jewelry collection when she was going through a divorce in 2020. The 42-year-old actress recently revealed in an interview with Sunday Times Style that she sold parts of her Chanel handbag and jewelry collections to help fund her 2020 divorce from James Heerdegen. I had quite a Chanel handbag collection for a while, but I sold a lot of things," she said. Christina Ricci and James Heerdegen were married for almost seven years before they divorced in 2020. Since moving on from that experience, Ricci has married again and welcomed a second child with celebrity hairstylist Mark Hampton.

☆ I couldn't let my mom sell our family's drive-in theater, so I took over. Now I work with Universal, Warner Brothers, and Paramount to bring hit movies to the cornfields of Idaho.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

She says she never thought she'd come home to run her family's drive-in theater. Of course when you're young, you don't realize how special something like our drive-in really is. When I was younger I never imagined I'd run my family's drive-in theater one day — but I couldn't let my mom sell itMy parents had sold their indoor theaters over the years, so the drive-in was the last one my mom was still operating. With any drive-in theater, weather is the biggest determinant of turnout. The drive-in really brings the community together.

☆ Namor: Marvel's watertight efforts to make him different from Aquaman
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: The following contains minor spoilers about “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”CNN —In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the aquatic adversary known as Namor wastes no time establishing himself as one of those beguiling but strange characters that can polarize an audience: the ocean-dwelling deity uses conch shells like smartphones and has feathered wings on his ankles. (CNN, DC Films and Warner Bros, which produced “Aquaman,” are part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. Also known as the Sub-Mariner, Namor first appeared in comics in 1939, while DC’s Aquaman debuted in 1941. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” also had the daunting task of presenting Namor’s origins in a way that swam clear of those seen in “Aquaman,” and of doing it a movie not meant to operate solely as an origin story. But before that happens, and thanks to Mejía’s nuanced performance in “Wakanda Forever,” Namor should be able to avoid many more comparisons to other oceanic demigods, and ride his own wave into the future.

☆ ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Extends the Marvel Empire in Film Franchises
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Peter Champelli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Since “Iron Man” was released in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise has grossed more than $10.5 billion in U.S. box-office revenue—the most of any movie franchise, according to Box Office Mojo. The blockbuster-scaled “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” to be released in theaters Friday, will add to the MCU total. With more than $700 million in box-office revenue, the franchise’s 2018 “Black Panther” movie had the sixth-highest lifetime gross in the U.S.

☆ Don’t look up: Close encounters of the disaster movie kind
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Gene Seymour | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The latter movie, whose threat was, as with “Don’t Look Up,” a comet, was a more earnest, conscientiously assembled and far less flustered variation on this theme. By the way, I bet you’re wondering whether a feature-length “Chicken Little” movie was ever made. All I’ll say here is that it sounds a lot more interesting than the movie turned out to be. The title character in 2005's animated "Chicken Little" faces ridicule after warning that the sky is falling. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the movies will altogether abandon “Chicken Little” themes.

☆ „Fast & Furious” revine. Saga cu încasări de circa 5 891 miliarde de dolari, se completează cu cel de-al nouălea film intitulat „F9”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

„Fast & Furious” revine. Saga cu încasări de circa 5 891 miliarde de dolari, se completează cu cel de-al nouălea film intitulat „F9”„F9”, noul lungmetraj din franciza „Fast & Furious”, a dat miercuri primul semnal de lansare pe piaţă, prin prezentarea unui trailer în care John Cena şi Cardi B sunt văzuţi alături de Vin Diesel. „Unul dintre cele mai frumoase lucruri din această saga este că am călătorit în locuri minunate, motiv pentru care finalul trebuie împărţit în două filme. Mai rămân multe locuri de văzut”, a asigurat Diesel într-o întâlnire online cu EFE, pentru a prezenta această avanpremieră, relatează EFE, citat de AGERPRES. Cele opt filme din saga „Fast & Furious”, plus spin-offul „Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs &Shaw”, au avut încasări în întreaga lume de 5 891 miliarde de dolari, potrivit datelor portalului de specialitate Box Office Mojo.

Persons: John Cena, Diesel, Charlize Theron, Tyrese Gibson, Helen Mirren, Ludacris, Michelle Rodríguez, Sung Kang ., Jakob Toretto, Dominic Toretto, Theron, ., Shaw Organizations: Fast, Saga, Furious, Diesel, AGERPRES Locations: Londra, Tokyo, America Centrală, Hollywood

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