The Avengers

Paramount Global‘s (NASDAQ:PARA)(NASDAQ:PARAA) Paramount Pictures aims to elevate its live-action Sonic the Hedgehog films to the level of grand cinematic events akin to Walt Disney Co.’s (NYSE:DIS) Marvel’s Avengers series. Toby Ascher, executive producer of the franchise,...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) awoke Tuesday without a hero. Stan Lee — the Marvel maven who brought the world “The Fantastic Four,” “X-Men” and “The Avengers" — died at 95. The Super Legacy A New York native, Stanley Lieber first entered the print world...

Joss Whedon, the man who wrote and directed the blockbuster “The Avengers,” a movie that united Thor, Iron Man and Captain America and inspired the rest of Hollywood to create a shared universe of overlapping movie properties, is poised to do the same thing with the rival comic book...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" is predicted to make as much as $230 million domestically this weekend. The film is responsible for more than 95 percent of Fandango's pre-sold ticket sales and has already earned more than $255 million...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) will report its fourth quarter results on Thursday after market close. Analysts are expecting the company to book $0.88 per share on $12.37 billion in revenue. Disney reported its third quarter results on August 5. At that time, the company earned a record high $1.28...

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is rumored to be interested in acquiring Xbox Entertainment Studios from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Few analysts were interested in talking to Benzinga about the rumor, which may turn out to be completely false given Microsoft's official statement on the matter....

Drug manufacturing has become a lot like Hollywood lately -- they’ve both become all about blockbusters. After all, it's the big sellers, or the blockbusters, that drug executives and Hollywood alike aspire to develop. The top 10 best-selling drugs globally, like today’s comic...

Feld Entertainment executive vice presidents Nicole and Alana Feld, famous for indoor arena events such as Monster Jam, Disney on Ice!, and Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, stopped by CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning to discuss Marvel Universe: LIVE!, the company's latest...

DC Comics and Marvel are known widely as comic book royalty. By sporting rabbit and mouse ears respectively, they have access to big funds that translate into better writers, actors, directors and animators for their big-budget films. While Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) are...

Disney (NYSE: DIS) is trading lower at the beginning of the trading day Wednesday after investors show mild disappointment in its earnings release but looking at it as a whole, it looks pretty good until you make your way to the studio section. Studio revenue was down but more important, The Lone...

Headlines in the mainstream press indicate that 21st Century Fox's (NASDAQ: FOXA) The Wolverine was a box office disappointment. The film earned $141 million worldwide last weekend. More than half of that revenue ($86.1 million) came from ticket sales outside of the United States. Hollywood is...

It’s only Wednesday but Disney (NYSE: DIS) is already having a big news week. First, the company announced Monday that CEO Bob Iger would remain in his current role until his contract expires on June 30, 2016. Iger was supposed to transition into the executive chairman role on April 1, 2015 for...

More than one year after John Carter left Disney (NYSE: DIS) with a multi-million-dollar black eye, critics are expecting the studio to suffer another major loss with the release of The Lone Ranger. Unlike The Pirates of the Caribbean series, which was inspired by an amusement park ride and had no...

Few men are as big of a Star Wars fanboy as JJ Abrams. His love of both trilogies -- particularly the first one -- has been apparent in his work for years. In November, he told Entertainment Weekly how much he loved Star Wars and how much the franchise meant to him. “As a kid I was always a fan...

Disney (NYSE: DIS), the media, animation and entertainment conglomerate behind Toy Story and The Avengers, will report its fiscal full year and fourth-quarter 2012 earnings after the market close on November 8. The company is expected to report a Q4 EPS of 68 cents on revenue of $10.92 billion. In...