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...were all coming into a theoretical concept," says Ryan Kavanaugh, whose Relativity Media has invested in films with budgets totaling more than $8 billion, in partnerships with Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. and others. "Let's plug this into a model and let's do it. There were a dozen deals, some that worked, some that didn...
...many movies competing for eyeballs, some studio execs say. "A lot of us are looking at our release schedules and making a conscious decision to slow it down," says one executive whose studio is currently seeking financing. As evidence, he points to how many companies shuffled their lineups when Warner Bros. moved the next Harry Potter movie from November to summer 2009. "When you take a gigantic vacuum out of the marketplace, everyone gets to breathe a little...
Those economics are very different from the ones now governing the major studios, including Warner Bros. Pictures, which made $67 million off the domestic box office of Heat. (TIME and Warner Bros. are both subsidiaries of Time Warner). Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov told the Wall Street Journal recently that the studio is "focusing on bigger films that require a bigger commitment." Translation: they're making fewer under-$50 million movies starring men with Oscars and more over-$200 million movies starring men with capes. This summer Warners closed its specialty divisions that handle smaller-budget films, Picturehouse...
...cartoons during his nearly 70-year career, it was bringing Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters to life on TV and in film that brought him fame. He got his start in the late '30s with Walt Disney, working on Bambi, Dumbo and other projects before moving on to animate Warner Bros. characters like Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. In 1959, Melendez was introduced to the world of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and six years later, he animated the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas. For his impeccable work, Melendez earned four Emmy Awards and an Oscar nomination...
...weekend of all time ($158.4 million) and widest opening release of all time (4,366 theaters), and is also the second-highest grossing film ever, behind Titanic's $600.8 million. Director Christopher Nolan's bleak reinvention of the classic comic book character was savvily marketed and aggressively distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (TIME and Warner Bros. are both subsidiaries of Time Warner) and warmly welcomed by critics, sparking a box office phenomenon with which no other hero of summer could compete. "Nobody saw Batman coming," says David Poland, editor of Movie City News. "The thing we learned from this summer...