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‘Frozen’ Overtakes Fire

Disney’s Frozen climbed to No. 1 in its second weekend with $31.6 million from 3,742 theaters, toppling The Hunger Games: Catching Fire from the top spot. Overseas, the 3D animated pic took in a strong $30.6 million from 23 markets for a stellar worldwide total of $190.2 million. Catching Fire is still a powerful player globally, …

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Warner Bros. Unveils Licensing Program For The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

Bilbo Baggins’ journey through Middle-earth resumes onDecember 13, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) has teamed up with their roster of global licensees to create an array of offerings inspired by the second film of The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures …

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Power Rangers Benefit Boys & Girls Club of America

Saban’s Power Rangers announced that a 20th Anniversary art exhibition and pop-up shop will open this weekend at Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Curated by Sweet Streets, the Power Rangers exhibition, 20 Rangers for 20 Years, will highlight popular artists and designers from around the world and their one-of-a-kind painted 31” Ranger statues, provided by …

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Early Access to Galactic Starfighter Digital Expansion Available to Star Wars: The Old Republic Subscribers

The journey to become a legendary Starfighter pilot begins now! BioWare and LucasArts granted early access for current subscribers to the new Free-to-Play Star Wars: The Old Republic Digital Expansion, Galactic Starfighter. The second Digital Expansion introduces 12v12 intense Player-vs-Player (PvP) free-flight dogfighting and fierce factional battles as the war between …

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DreamWorks Animation’s Turbo FAST Launches as First-Ever Netflix Original Series For Kids

Turbo and his Fast Action Stunt Team are challenging the world to “snail up!” as they make their global television debut on Christmas Eve – Tuesday, December 24th at 12:01 AM PST – with the launch of DreamWorks Animation’s all new Turbo FAST series, exclusively in all Netflix territories. Families will be able to stream the first five …

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Warner Bros. Unveils Holiday Merchandise

Warner Bros. Consumer Products has teamed with a wide array of licensees to bring fan-favorites home for the holidays. In partnership with licensees including Mattel, LEGO, Wonder Forge and many more, WBCP is presenting products across a range of categories including toys, publishing, apparel, collectors’ items and seasonal offerings inspired …

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‘Catching Fire,’ ‘Frozen’ Serve Up Box Office Records For Thanksgiving

Thanks to a pair of shrewd female heroines, Hollywood enjoyed its most prosperous Thanksgiving on record as holdover The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and new animated tentpole Frozen turned in ferocious performances, each earning more than any previous holiday title. Catching Fire grossed $110.2 million from 4,163 theaters over the five-day holiday (Wednesday-Sunday), becoming the top Thanksgiving …

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LEGO Sets Off on a New Journey to Create LEGO The Hobbit

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group announced LEGO The Hobbit, the latest addition to the popular LEGO videogame series that brings to life the enthralling and legendary stories from Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy. The game will be available in 2014 for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 …

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Box Office Catches Fire

Moviegoers propelled Lionsgate’s sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to a $307.7 million global opening, easily outpacing the first film’s $211.8 million debut in March 2012. Catching Fire scored the top November opening of all time with $161.1 million, slaying the record set by fellow YA film adaptation The Twilight Saga: New Moon($142.8) and marking the …

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‘Gravity’ Soars over $500 Million Worldwide

Reaching another astronomical milestone, Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Gravity” crossed $500 million at the worldwide box office on Saturday, November 16, 2013. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity” has …

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