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Last week The Hollywood Reporter ran a succinct piece about Warner Bros. and its current box office woes. Behind a string of flops and under performers like Hot Pursuit, Vacation, Magic Mike XXL (it’s a classic folks), and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., WB is finishing #3 for the summer for the second year in a […]
The optics and perspective on these things are hilarious.
It sometimes feels like I’m the only person on the planet that’s really excited for Batman v Superman, but the echo chamber of the internet doesn’t reflect reality too often.
“The Man from U.N.C.L.E. really???”
You’d think the failures of DARK SHADOWS and THE LONE RANGER would have shown Hollywood that while an old TV show might be revered by a certain generation, nobody is exactly clamoring for a movie version. Of course, there was no great demand for reboots of Spider-Man or Fantastic Four, either.
I think the last Warner movie I saw was Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE, which was supposed to have a wide release until the studio panicked and kept it in “limited” release. Cowards!
No Mad Max, George?
Oops, forgot that was from Warner. Thanks, Kyle!
Seriously, does Warner have anything interesting coming out in the fall or winter? Is everything at a standstill until BATMAN V. SUPERMAN opens in March? Warner did have 2014’s biggest box office hit (AMERICAN SNIPER). Maybe the profits from that will keep the studio afloat for a while.
To be fair, Disney isn’t even in first place between the studios this year and they had two super hero movies and a Pixar film. THey are getting “trounced” (I use that word with tongue firmly in cheek) by Universal who is having their best box office year in years.
I mean, the other way to look at this, from WB’s point of view is, they have no major super hero movies or franchise tentpoles and they are still in third place only (I think) 5 or 6% total box office dollars for the year behind Disney. I’d be pretty happy with that if I was WB.
Also, Heidi, I’m sure producing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. had a lot less to do with propping up that franchise, and a lot more to do with keeping Guy Ritchie, who directed those little Sherlock Holmes movies for them, happy. I totally understand them playing the long game on that movie.
Also, I saw it, and it was unexpectedly a lot of fun and not at all what I was expecting.
“I totally understand them playing the long game on that movie.”
Sort of like Warner used to let Clint Eastwood direct a personal project like BIRD in exchange for another Dirty Harry movie.