Warners’ Bets Pay Off, Disney Scores but Marvel Struggles, Tom Cruise Can’t Save Paramount
Family films flourished, video game versions triumphed, star-driven features bombed.
Warner enjoyed strong run at the box office, fielding hits as diverse as vampire flick set in the Jim Crow South (“Sinners”), star-driven racing drama (“F1: The Movie”), sandbox-game-turned-big-screen-smash (“A Minecraft Movie”).
Paramount, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars on another “Mission: Impossible,” barely released anything that turned a profit.
Disney backed three movies that topped $1 billion (including “Avatar: Fire and Ash”) and stands out as the only studio to cross a combined $6 billion globally.
But the studio also distributed nearly twice as many big-budget duds (“Elio,” “Snow White” and “Tron: Ares,” to name a few).
More troubling, Marvel, once Hollywood’s biggest hitmaker, struggled to regain its mojo. It’s all coming down to next year’s “Avengers: Doomsday” to get the franchise back on course.
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