Star Wars

Fans of the "Star Wars" franchise lucky enough to have watched the first film, "Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope," in 1977 likely found it hard to believe the franchise would become a global phenomenon four decades later. To mark the unofficial Star Wars Day of celebration on Thursday,...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s "Star Wars" franchise has become a phenomenon in and of itself and has been a money spinner for the company. Wowing The Audience The films of the franchise have appealed to people of different demographics due to a host of factors, including its appealing characters,...

While most analysts, including those at RBC Capital Markets, maintain a bullish stance on Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS), their optimism isn’t proportionately distributed among investors. RBC analyzed divergent perspectives on Disney’s future in a Friday note highlighting four shareholder...

In the company’s most recent quarterly earnings call, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) CEO Vince McMahon informed shareholders that the company’s toy business is booming. “In consumer products, we maintained a dominant position with the second highest selling action...

Two more Dow components are scheduled to report earnings this week. Both of them are expected to show a decline in earnings from a year ago. Only one of them has regularly exceed consensus earnings estimates in the past few quarters. Most of the Dow Jones Industrial Average components...

Wedbush’s Michael Pachter expects Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) to deliver “significant growth for the foreseeable future driven by cost discipline, digital sales growth, and impressive franchises including Battlefield, Titanfall, the Star Wars games, and FIFA Mobile.” The...

Goldman Sachs analyst Drew Borst believes that despite the 9 percent outperformance over the past two months, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) shares have 24 percent upside potential over the next 12 months, driven by accelerated EPS growth in FY 2018. Borst upgraded the rating on Disney's stock...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) dominated a record-breaking year at the box office in 2016. Following the release of “Rogue One,” Disney became the first studio ever to reach the $7 billion mark in global box office sales in a single year. In fact, the top four grossing movies of the year in...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) agreed to acquire Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock back in late October of 2012.   Since the acquisition, Disney released "Episode VII - The Force Awakens" on December 18, 2015, and "Rogue One: A Star Wars...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s latest Star Wars flick, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" is off to a smashing start in its big screen debut and is just the second film ever to open in December above the $100 million mark. Here is a list of the biggest December opening weekends ever,...

The latest in the Star Wars franchise, " Rogue One" could see Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) laugh all the way to the bank. 'Rogue One': Strong, But ... The standalone film was released in North America at midnight Thursday and is expected to have a domestic opening of $130 million to $150 million,...

Walt Disney Co’s (NYSE: DIS) "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" is scheduled for release on Friday and is set to open on around 6,500 screens. Given surging demand, additional screens would likely be added by the opening day, Loop Capital Markets’ David Miller said in a report...

In a three-way battle, the science fiction of Star Wars is pitched against the magical wizardry of Harry Potter and the super heroes of Marvel Entertainment. Picking the "winner" is truly a tough proposition, as each in its own right has a mass appeal, huge fan following and tasted commercial...

In what could be a win-win scenario for both Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), the pair announced live-steaming of some "never-before-seen" content from the upcoming latest Star Wars film, "Rogue One." Star Wars is an American space opera franchise based on a film series...