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News'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' scales $1.54bn global
JAN 5 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s juggernaut added $14.5m internationally on Monday to reach $786.1m and the global haul climbed by $22.5m to $1.536bn.
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NewsUniversal hits $6.9bn global in 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Combined box office for all the studio’s films released in 2015 from January 1 through December 31 reached a world record $6.88bn worldwide.
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NewsNew Year’s Honours for Idris Elba, David Oyelowo
Leading lights from the British Isles have been recognised for their contributions to drama in the annual list.
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NewsFox, Warner Bros each cross $2bn international
With the top two distributors of 2015 Disney and Universal yet to report final calendar year results, two others each came in at more than $2bn.
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News'The Force Awakens' surges to $1.4bn worldwide
JAN 2 UPDATE: A further estimated $59.5m from the global box office on Friday saw Disney/Lucasfilm’s behemoth reach $1.391bn.
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News'Force Awakens' Disney's biggest North American release
JAN 1 UPDATE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens – already Disney’s biggest film in North America since Thursday – is on the cusp of being crowned the biggest release of 2015.
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NewsGeorge Lucas: 'I sold Star Wars to 'white slavers''
As record-breaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens crossed $1.23bn worldwide the franchise’s creator has made clear his views on the tone of the reboot and selling the property to Disney.
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News'The Big Short' to receive PSIFF ensemble award
Top brass at the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced their final honour on Tuesday heading into the January 2 2016 awards gala.
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News‘Force Awakens’ scales $1.3bn global
JANUARY 1 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars behemoth added $38m worldwide on December 31 to reach $1.33bn and rank as the eighth biggest release of all time.
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AMBI revs up with Lamborghini project
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have optioned the life rights to Ferruccio Lamborghini and dropped another motoring biopic into the market alongside Enzo Ferrari.
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News'The Force Awakens' passes $100m at UK box office
Disney’s continuation of the space saga shows no sign of slowing down; Paramount’s Daddy’s Home posts strong $2.4m (£1.62m) two-day opening.
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News'The Hateful Eight' expands wide one day early
Buoyed by the early $5.7m roadshow performance of Quentin Tarantino’s latest Western, The Weinstein Company is taking it wide on Wednesday.
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NewsPSIFF 2016 to honour Bryan Cranston
Riding high on SAG and Golden Globe nods for his lead role in Trumbo, the actor will receive the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s (PSIFF) Spotlight Award, Actor.
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Wild Bunch to launch Lindon-starring Rodin biopic at Rendez-vous
EXCLUSIVE: Slate also includes new films by Alain Guiraudie and Raymond Depardon.
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NewsAwards publicist Murray Weissman dies aged 90
The renowned publicist who represented the likes of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg, has died of pancreatic cancer surrounded by family at his Studio City home. He was 90.
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NewsChristopher Nolan to direct 'Dunkirk'
According to reports the British filmmaker is preparing to helm the WWII war film with Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy in talks to star.
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NewsUS box office hits $11bn in 2015
DECEMBER 29 UPDATE: Combined grosses reached $11bn in North America on Tuesday according to Rentrak, powered by Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World. This was the first time Hollywood achieved the feat – at least when unadjusted for inflation.
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Haskell Wexler, Oscar-winning cinematographer, dies aged 93
The double Oscar-winning cinematographer who worked on One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest died in hospital in Santa Monica on Sunday. He was 93.
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News'Force Awakens' adds $149.2m in record North America session
DECEMBER 28 UPDATE: A further confirmed $149.2m boosted Disney-Lucasfilms’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens past the half-billion mark in a huge Christmas weekend session and destroyed the second-weekend record of $106.6m set by Jurassic World back in the summer.
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NewsScreen's most-read news, reviews, features and blogs of 2015
Heelgate, the “tedious” Fantastic Four, Screen’s Stars of Tomorrow and our Cannes Competition blog proved some of the most-read articles of the year.