WEEKEND Box Office: BOO-21.6M; Geostorm-13.3M; OTB-6M; Snowman-3.4M

[Alli]

22 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Well yes, New Line has been in WB bottom line for a while now:

Production Companies

• New Line Cinema (presents)
• KatzSmith Productions
• Lin Pictures
• RatPac-Dune Entertainment (in association with)
• Vertigo Entertainment

https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/divisions/new-line-cinema

New Line became a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment in March 2008. 

 

There is no different section for New Lines vs Warner Brothers in Time Warners annual report:

http://www.timewarner.com/sites/timewarner.com/files/related-articles/TWX_2015_Annual_Report.pdf

Feature Films Warner Bros. is a leader in the feature film business and produces feature films under its Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema banners.

 

Would be a bit like saying Disney didn't produce Force Awaken or Thor 3, Fox didn't do Fox Searchlight production, Universal didn't do Focus production and so on, kind of right in some case I imagine but it could be hard to know how independent those banner really are of the parent company in greenlight power and operation's, when it is not clear like Pixar or Miramax in the Disney era.

WTF Brett Ratner  produced IT?

[TalismanRing]

5 minutes ago, Alli said:

WTF Brett Ratner  produced IT?

They're attached to a lot of WB Films

 

Production Company - filmography

1. The Billion Brick Race (2019) ... Production Company (in association with)
2. The Lego Movie Sequel (2019) ... Production Company (in association with)
3. Ready Player One (2018) ... Production Company
4. The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017) ... Production Company (in association with)
5. It (2017/I) ... Production Company (in association with)
6. Dunkirk (2017) ... Production Company (in association with)
7. Annabelle: Creation (2017) ... Production Company
8. CHIPS (2017) ... Production Company (in association with)
9. The Disaster Artist (2017) ... Production Company
10. The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) ... Production Company (in association with)
11. Live by Night (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
12. The Accountant (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
13. Storks (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
14. Sully (2016) ... Production Company
15. The Legend of Tarzan (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
16. Central Intelligence (2016) ... Production Company
17. Lights Out (2016/II) ... Production Company (in association with)
18. The Conjuring 2 (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
19. Keanu (2016) ... Production Company
20. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
21. Midnight Special (2016) ... Production Company (in association with)
22. How to Be Single (2016) ... Production Company
23. In the Heart of the Sea (2015) ... Production Company (in association with)
24. Pan (2015) ... Production Company (in association with)
25. Black Mass (2015) ... Production Company
26. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) ... Production Company (in association with)
27. San Andreas (2015) ... Production Company (in association with)
28. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ... Production Company (in association with)
29. Run All Night (2015) ... Production Company (in association with)
30. Focus (2015/II) ... Production Company (in association with)
31. American Sniper (2014) ... Production Company (in association with)
32. Annabelle (2014/I) ... Production Company
33. Into the Storm (2014) ... Production Company (in association with)
34. Jersey Boys (2014) ... Production Company (in association with)
35. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ... Production Company (in association with)
36. The Lego Movie (2014) ... Production Company (in association with)
37. Grudge Match (2013) ... Production Company (produced in association with)
38. Live Die Repeat and Repeat (????) ... Production Company
39. The Batman (????) ... Production Company (in association with)

[Alli]

@TalismanRing A lot of good movies and hits. Who would have thought?!

[dudalb]

2 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

WB (like every other studio except currently Disney) often has outside investors even on films like WW and BvS (It helps mitigate losses but also profits).  IT's budget was comparatively low but about the same as Collateral which had outside investors.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservative-koch-brothers-are-secret-investors-wonder-woman-1027376

 

 

Film Companies finance their films through a combination of investestments and bank loans;this is no secret, has been that way since the silent era.

 

[cookie]

44 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I love how the trailer for Jigsaw builds up to a big reveal that "he's BACK!" Like he's one of the most iconic horror villains ever. It lands with a total sense of:

 

I keep forgetting a Saw movie is even coming out let alone next week 

[dudalb]

19 minutes ago, Alli said:

WTF Brett Ratner  produced IT?

Ratner's company, Ratpac was one of the companies that invested in IT.

Ratner has proven to be much,much more successful as a producer then he has as a director;that is why he has pretty much given up directing to concerntrate on his production company.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

Jesus, Boo 2!'s audience score is at 61% now  Double Toasted said it's literally the same movie as the first Boo!, which they somewhat enjoyed. Maybe that's playing into WOM?

I watched their review--Boo 2 cost $25 million?! Either those Youtube/Instagram stars command a pretty penny or $24M really is going to Tyler Perry.

[Boxofficerules]

It’s fimmy to think the directors of Jigsaw went off to make a Helen Mirren movie next.

[WrathOfHan]

6 minutes ago, BoxOfficeChica said:

I watched their review--Boo 2 cost $25 million?! Either those Youtube/Instagram stars command a pretty penny or $24M really is going to Tyler Perry.

The first one cost 20M too! Tyler Perry has to have a salary on par with people like JLaw and RDJ  

[cookie]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

The first one cost 20M too! Tyler Perry has to have a salary on par with people like JLaw and RDJ  

Doesn't Perry himself finance most of his movies?

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, cookie said:

Doesn't Perry himself finance most of his movies?

Yep, which is where the whole salary thing could come into play  

[Barnack]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

Yep, which is where the whole salary thing could come into play  

Or less, he would be paying is salary no ?

[Jake Gittes]

14 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

It’s fimmy to think the directors of Jigsaw went off to make a Helen Mirren movie next.

I only just remembered that Jigsaw is from the guys behind Daybreakers and Predestination. Well. Hope they enjoyed the paycheck

[dudalb]

3 hours ago, Jonwo said:

New Line is a subsidiary of WB so it’s effectively the same company but a different division

New Line was a separate company under the Time Warner umbrella until 2008 when it pretty much went bankrupt (the success of the LOTR films went to their heads, they forgot they were a small studio without the resouces and deep pockets of a major studio, spent all the profits from LOTR on a few big budget films most of which flopped and were pretty much belly up by 2008) and Time Warner made them a division of Warners brs studios. This was a huge loss in independence. now they had to clear their production decisions with Warners Studiois management which they did not have to do before.

[AJG]

18 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

It’s fimmy to think the directors of Jigsaw went off to make a Helen Mirren movie next.

 

I had to check the keyboard to see how hard it is to accidentally type “fimmy” instead of “funny”. 

 

I totally get it

[YM!]

Outside of IT and Kingsman to a lesser extent, this September and October was shitty for movies but I can see a good rebound for November movies.

 

Thor: Ragnarok: $115M/$305M

BMXMAS: $35M (five day)/$100M

Daddy’s 2: $30M/$85M

Orient: $40M/$100M

JL: $170M/$420M

Star: $18M/$70M

Wonder: $15M/$50M

Coco: $75M (five day)/$215M

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by YourMother

[That One Girl]

I’ve been warming up to the trailers for Jigsaw.  As long as they keep the torture porn aspect more restrained then I might enjoy it.

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, YourMother said:

Star: $18M/$70M

 

 

Even if that were domestic/worldwide gross, that'd still be way too high.

[YM!]

2 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Even if that were domestic/worldwide gross, that'd still be way too high.

I can see it playing out like HF2 (adjusted) except under $80M WW.

Edited October 21, 2017 by YourMother

[the beast]

2 minutes ago, YourMother said:

Outside of IT and Kingsman to a lesser extent, this September and October was shitty for movies but I can see a good rebound for November movies.

 

Thor: Ragnarok: $115M/$305M

BMXMAS: $35M (five day)/$100M

Daddy’s 2: $30M/$85M

Orient: $40M/$100M

JL: $170M/$420M

Star: $18M/$70M

Wonder: $15M/$50M

Coco: $75M (five day)/$215M

 

 

How I See November:

 

Thor: Ragnarok: $135M/$345M

BMXMAS: $35M/$105M

Daddy's Home 2: $40M/$125M

Orient: $30M/$87M

Justice League: $175M/$475M

Wonder: $23M/$85M

The Star: $5M/$15M

Coco: $65M/$275M

Polaroid: $3M/$11M