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Disney rises over 6% as cost cuts, Hollywood strikes save $3 billion

Disney expects content spending this year to total about $27 billion, Kevin Lansberry, acting chief financial officer, said Wednesday on a call with investors after the Burbank

The Little Mermaid is set to release on OTT, check when and where to watch

The Little Mermaid was released on May 26 in theatres and garnered mixed reviews from the audience. The movie is set to release on OTT, check where and when you can watch the movie

"Barbie'' joins $1 billion club, breaks another record for female directors

Greta Gerwig should be feeling closer to fine these days. In just three weeks in theatres, Barbie is set to sail past USD 1 billion in global ticket sales, breaking a record for female directors that was previously held by Patty Jenkins, who helmed Wonder Woman. Barbie, which Gerwig directed and co-wrote, added another USD 53 million from 4,178 North American locations this weekend according to studio estimates on Sunday. The Margot Robbie-led and produced film has been comfortably seated in first place for three weeks and it's hardly finished yet. Warner Bros. said the film will cross USD 1 billion before the end of the day. In modern box office history, just 53 movies have made over USD 1 billion, not accounting for inflation, and Barbie is now the biggest to be directed by one woman, supplanting Wonder Woman's USD 821.8 million global total. Three movies that were co-directed by women are still ahead of Barbie, including Frozen (USD 1.3 billion) and Frozen 2 (USD 1.45 billion) bo

Hollywood writers, studios trade barbs ahead of renewed negotiations

The parties traded barbs earlier in the week, three months into a strike that has largely shut down film and TV production across the country

Frames per second: Exploding heads in the time of Oppenheimer

Western and Japanese artists found inspiration for post-humanist visions in the years following Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Loki season 2 trailer: Ke Huy Quan joins Tom Hiddleston in navigating TVA

On July 31, the much-anticipated trailer for "Loki Season 2" was released. Ke Huay Quan, Owen Wilson, Tom Hiddleston, and Sophia Dimartino get together to give the viewers an exhilarating experience

Hollywood saves India's PVR Inox as Bollywood bombs at box office

International cinema helped India's biggest movie operator PVR Inox post a rise in first-quarter revenue as Hindi films failed to bring moviegoers to theatres

Hollywood writers' strike could dent the prospects of Indian box office

Hollywood strikes may hamper the business of the Indian box office as many Hollywood movies have postponed their releases by six to nine months

Euphoria star Angus Cloud, 25, found dead at Oakland home after 911 call

Angus Cloud's family in a statement said for his death, "It is with the heaviest heart that we must say goodbye to an incredible human today". Cloud's father had passed away just a week ago

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey cleared of sexual assault charges in UK

The jury rejected the prosecution's claims that Spacey had "aggressively" grabbed three men by the crotch and had performed a sex act on another man while he was asleep in his flat

'There is only one Robert'

Oppenheimer covers the peak period of Oppie's life, from his student days in the 1920s until a kangaroo-court hearing that denied him a security clearance in 1951

Magic of 'pink' publicity campaign? Barbie creates history at box office

Barbie has outperformed Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, which earned $24.5 million on its opening day in 2008

Barbie's Giant 3D ad in front of Burj Khalifa has social media awestruck

A huge Barbie doll standing close to the Burj Khalifa has turned into a web sensation via social media. The video has gone viral with 3.5 million views on Instagram

As scammers target movie buffs, Barbie fans asked not to download film

Software security firm McAfee claims to have documented 100 new instances of malware with Barbie-related filenames in the last three weeks alone

Feminist, satirical and 'pink': Inside Greta Gerwig's world of Barbie

The film is more than a plastic-and-fantastic universe, and Ken is the reason every man should watch it

Objectionable scene: Thakur seeks explanation on CBFC nod for Oppenheimer

Taking serious note of an objectionable scene in Christopher Nolan-helmed "Oppenheimer", Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur has sought an explanation from the Central Board of Film Certification and asked it to take corrective action. Thakur is understood to have asked the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to get the scene where Oppenheimer appears to indulge in a sexual intercourse while reading verses from the Bhagavad Gita deleted from the movie. He has also asked the Board to fix accountability on persons responsible for clearing the movie with the scene in question. Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar had written an open letter to Nolan, terming the scene a "disturbing attack on Hinduism" and appealed to the film director to remove the scene worldwide. In the film, Oppenheimer -- played by Cillian Murphy -- is shown having intercourse with psychologist Jean Tatler (Florence Pugh) as she asks him to read a verse from what appears to be a Sanskrit bo

Barbenheimer: How much money did two movies make on the opening weekend?

Barbenheimer's stellar performance comes as Hollywood grapples with its largest strike in decades

Oppenheimer sparks controversy over sex scene featuring Sanskrit scripture

A scene in "Oppenheimer", in which the titular character appears to have sex as he reads out verses from an ancient Sanskrit scripture, has irked a section of social media users, who claimed the lines are from the Bhagavad Gita and demanded the removal of the sequence from Christopher Nolan's latest film. "Oppenheimer", a 180 minute-long sprawling biographical drama on the titular American theoretical physicist, opened in India on Friday to positive reviews and has reportedly amassed close to Rs 30 crore at the box office in two days. Uday Mahurkar, Information Commissioner, Government of India, wrote an open letter to Nolan, terming the scene a "disturbing attack on Hinduism" and appealed to the director to remove the scene worldwide. "We urge, on behalf of billion Hindus and timeless tradition of lives being transformed by revered Geeta, to do all that is needed to uphold dignity of their revered book and remove this scene from your film across world. Should you choose to ignore .

Charlie Chaplin's daughter and actor Josephine Chaplin passes away at 74

She is survived by her three sons; Charlie, Arthur and Julien Ronet; and her siblings Michael, Geraldine, Victoria, Jane, Annette; Eugene and Christopher

Barbie hot pink universe; Global retailers cash in on 'plastic doll' craze

With many consumers spending less amid a cost of living squeeze, retailers are jumping at the opportunity to persuade shoppers to buy more expensive items and boost their revenues