I already reported this, but here’s the official Warner Bros announcement:
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BURBANK, CA – July 26, 2010 – On Sunday, July 25th, Warner Bros. Studios became the only studio in history to surpass $1 billion at the domestic box office for ten years in a row. In addition, the division has crossed the billion-dollar threshold for eleven of the past twelve years. The announcement was made by Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution.
The studio passed the billion-dollar mark on the heels of the blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” which has topped the weekend box office in its first two weeks in release and has taken in $142.9 million to date. Beginning the year, Warner Bros. was still enjoying the success of Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes,” which had just opened on Christmas Day 2009. The studio also scored hits with Alcon Entertainment’s action adventure “The Book of Eli”; New Line Pictures’ ensemble romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day,” directed by Garry Marshall; the epic action adventure “Clash of the Titans”; and “Sex and the City 2,” New Line’s follow up to its 2008 hit based on the enormously popular television show.
In making the announcement, Fellman said, “This is an extraordinary milestone for our studio, and it reflects the enormous talent and dedication of a large roster of people, both on and off the screen. We are very proud of what we have achieved, not only this year, but over the past decade, and with an amazing slate of films opening in the coming months, we know this is just the beginning.”
Still to come in 2010 from Warner Bros. Pictures are: “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D,” opening this week; Rob Reiner’s “Flipped”; “Lottery Ticket,” starring Bow Wow and Ice Cube; “Going the Distance,” starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long; “The Town,” directed by and starring Ben Affleck; Zack Snyder’s animated “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole 3D”; “Life As We Know It,” pairing Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel; Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter,” starring Matt Damon; Todd Phillips’ “Due Date,” teaming Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis; the much-anticipated “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1”; and “Yogi Bear 3D,” bringing the classic character to the big screen.
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The Wachowskis and Joel Silver, Michael Bey and Jerry B., Chris Nolan and Chuck Roven are in line for a nice gift basket, methinks.
It’s a damned shame that we at WB (and all of the other studios) are so broke that we have to lay off studio office personnel, and we can’t afford to pay the creative unions’ people their due residual compensation. Yeaaaaaaahhhhh, *lighting up my $50 Cuban cigar and opening my pants for my assistant*, a crying shame…
It’s only because they are lucky that they got the Harry Potter franchise. Take that away and no 10 straight years for them.
So? They were doing their *job* when they were smart enough to get the Harry Potter franchise. Eliminate the Pirates franchise and Disney’s bottom line sucks in each of the three years that those movies premiered. Take away the new Star Trek and Mission: Impossible and Paramout’s bottom line sucks in at least two years (three or four if you include the last couple of TNG Trek movies.) Take away the Bourne Movies and Universal has three different down years. The fact of the matter is that successful franchises do deservedly make the studios look good on a publicity level — and like assholes when they try to tell profit participants that the movies make no money.
— Rob
I am reminded of the article a few weeks back that Nikki posted detailing the amount of ‘red’ for Harry Potter 5. A film, go figure, which occurred during this unprecedented (!!) and historical (!!!) run. With numbers this ‘impressive’, they still can’t hit ‘black’ for their tent poles? Take your pick kids…should we call it greed or just having the most clueless accountants in Hollywood?
It’s astonishing how blatantly WB is patting themselves on the back in the midst of blatantly screwing over the very people that got them to that point in the first place. Disgusting, disgraceful and regrettably not surprising.
Not at all surprising. If you release the most number of movies in a year, you do end up with the highest revenue. However, are they really profitable. Except for the big name franchises, I don’t think WB is producing profitable movies.
The only studio that I believe is very successful in recent years is Paramount.
These companies make MOUNTAINS of cash. Look around at the excess applied to even the most mundane functions of their businesses.
Of course not everyone gets to share in the rewards equally but the notion that these people aren’t making money when they get decades of revenue even out of products that don’t make all their money back in single weekends is preposterous.
I’m not making light of the financial pressures out there that are very real for most people but any of the big studios claiming to be playing a losing game is utterly ridiculous.
they also have JONAH HEX coming out on DVD!
“New Line Pictures” — What ever happen to New Line Cinema??
Smart. Any studio claiming to make money will attract better product and boost the confidence in it’s audience. So I would think.
I have several friends who were laid off from Warners. I’m sure they’ll be happy to know the company is doing so well. Ridiculous!!!
Congratulations to WB. I am sure the 600 or so people who were laid off from Warners in the last couple of years will be very happy for them. And as most of their tentpole movies, from where most of the $$$ come from, are made overseas or out-of-state lessening employment opportunities and income to the state, good for you Warner Bros.