![]() ![]() The $50m Russell Crowe/Ryan Gosling 1970's-set comedic mystery earned just $57m worldwide, both because Crowe and Gosling aren't "put butts in the seats" stars and because all of the grown ups were flocking to Captain America: Civil War. But the studio certainly did everything they could to make Shane Black's delightful The Nice Guys into a hit. The $17 million sci-fi thriller earned just $6.2m worldwide on the heels of WB's biggest 2016 blockbuster. The former, a grim and star-free (sorry Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton, you'll have to live with the endless critical plaudits) sci-fi chase thriller never found an audience and frankly was undersold by its studio. But yes, the two unmitigated failures were Jeff Nichols' magical Midnight Special and Shane Black's The Nice Guys, both of which will likely find themselves on many top 10 lists over the next month. The sad irony is that Warner's two biggest misses this year were their two best movies while their two biggest hits (at the moment) were their two most critically trashed titles which served to put the entire studio under a grim microscope. ![]() And they had a pretty good batting average.įirst, let's look at the whiffs. But the studio spent the year not just putting out big franchise titles but also a deluge of smaller, often star-driven multiplex fare right alongside the big stuff. Yes, I know Live By Night will go wide early next year after a Christmas platform debut, and yes I know that Midnight Special never made it beyond 521 lucky, lucky theaters. That's more releases than any other major studio, especially if you factor that all but a few of them opened in at least 2,500 theaters. had/will have 19 releases this year, 21 if you count the "special event" Killing Joke release ($3.7 million) and the IMAX Harry Potter marathons ($1.7m). ![]() had a terrific year with both big franchise wins and a deluge of varied old-school movies that clicked here and abroad. With the caveat that different is not automatically better or worse (thanks, Lethal Weapon 4), Warner Bros. ![]()
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