This whole Warner Bros. Discovery thing has been a mess, hasn’t it? The media and entertainment company puts out a fair amount of bangers each year because it controls so much, but it’s been abundantly clear that there’s no real plan for its assets (yuck, hate that word). The solution? Just throwing renowned properties at the wall to see what sticks, and we’re now at the stage of desperation when stuff like Gremlins and The Goonies are being dusted off.
Like Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, undoubtedly the top branch of the company, is gearing up for a Tremblant 2025 that can be stored or doomed through blockbusters like DC Studios’ Superman and DC Studios’ Minecraft and the Minecraft for A Long Time (and already in which it splits) the film, Start looking for more high-end homes that can inspire other people to stop at the nearest movie theater. Observe, your author-directed output for this year looks great, but that’s not building numbers!
Through Deadline, we learned that president of global marketing, Josh Goldstine, and president of foreign film distribution, Andrew Cripps, left the company last week, a move that caused some confusion in Hollywood circles. Meanwhile, the film group’s co-presidents and CEOs, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, are looking to “restore Warner Bros. as a home for high-profile filmmakers. ” Remember, Christopher Nolan’s smash hit, Oppenheimer, is the result of Warner Tenet’s research. The failed exit of 2020 and the departure of the writer and director of his ex-spouse from Universal.
Regardless, and as teased before, Warner’s 2025 theatrical schedule is interesting on that front: We have Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie coming up and set to release alongside crowd-pleasing flicks like the two aforementioned behemoths, the new Final Destination, The Conjuring: Last Rites, and Mortal Kombat 2, among others. It’s a slate that looks healthy, but the powers that be are struggling to keep things interesting in 2026 and beyond outside of DC Studios’ ambitious plans (which depend on Superman’s financial performance this year).
Yes, there’s this Lord of the Rings movie centered on Gollum and maybe more to come after that, but it most likely won’t be released at this rate before 2026. While competition like Universal and Disney seems to be slow still. In reality, to recover pre-pandemic levels of theatrical success, Warner Bros. It needs a few more wins a year, and it turns out that leaders are moving heaven and earth to make it happen. The Deadline article states that “franchise hopes” are also pinned on things like “Drew Goddard’s next story for a new Matrix, a new Columbus Gremlins, and a Goonies remedy. “
The Matrix Resurrections was not exactly a victory, although he quickly won cult followers; The public rejected it to a large extent and box office collection amounted to only 157 million dollars worldwide (although the day and date was transmitted). Meanwhile, 80 films such as Gremlins and Goonies have been irrelevant for a long time beyond the baby. Boomers, X and millennial generation that refer to them and them, anything that has leaked in large part of the recent entertainment that attracts the public (just see the most recent exhibition of Star Wars). The first won an animated television. It will be shown in 2023, but at most no one has talked about it (however, more episodes are planned by 2025).
I’m sorry, but I can’t watch those big hits that convince other young people to put down their phones and get into the movies, and it’s been proven time and time again that other 50-year-olds can’t bring latent intellectual assets from the fall. . They might have a chance if budgeted wisely, but that’s rare in the current Hollywood climate, so make me skeptical.