There’s been a lot of noise in the headlines of late about the storied Warner Bros. being up for sale, but if 2025 will be remembered for anything, it’s the rebound of the Burbank, Calif. studio cofounded by Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack, not just for its $4 billion global box office (the best YTD…
Warner Bros Discovery chief David Zaslav spoke fiercely about the power of storytelling and warned that “when the government controls the news, that is the end of democracy” on Thursday during his speech at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Dinner, where he was being honored for his humanitarian and philanthropic works. The annual gala at the Beverly Wilshire’s…
SATURDAY AM: In the old days, like pre aughts, rival studio execs enjoyed sniping about a competitor’s upsets. But nowadays with streamers like Apple, Amazon and Netflix sitting outside the hen house, ready to gobble up any big pic at auction, there’s a lot of rooting going on among motion picture studios for their fellow…
James Wan’s The Conjuring series has persisted as something of a contradiction. Its immense size — 10 total films if you include 2019’s The Curse of La Llorona, which seems to be a minor matter of inconsequential debate — belies a series that, unlike similarly large franchises such as Marvel or DC, really succeeds as…
EXCLUSIVE: Cosm — the entertainment concern that melds old-school planetarium with state-of-the-art immersive technology in a new theatrical experience — will open Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory as its second so-called “shared reality” presentation in a multi-picture deal with Warner Bros. Screenings of the iconic Gene Hackman-starring 1971 film start Nov. 21. They follow…
Superman, the first movie in Peter Safran and James Gunn‘s revamped DC Studios Phase I, labeled “Gods and Monsters,” is opening this weekend. Talk about pressure. There is a lot riding on this movie as it tees up the tone and grand plans that the duo have assembled since Warner Bros Discovery siloed DC away…