2019: Worst summer movie season ever???

[JonaX]

Warner Brothers really had 3-4 big budget films early in 2019.


- Shazam ($100 million)
- Pokemon : Detective Pikachu ($150 Million)
- Lego Movie 2 ($99 million)
- Godzilla : King of Monsters ($170 million)

Warners has to watch the bottom line basically and can't just throw movies on schedule after committing almost $500-600 million in budgets to 4 films as we see. Beyond Godzilla its a big gamble to approve films and hope to earn production budget back as we saw with WB this year.

Warner Bros only on the hook for 25% of Godzilla's budget, the rest was funded by Legendary so they won't lose much.Detective Pikachu is only being distributed by WB, again funded by Legendary. The only big loser was Lego Movie 2.

The second half of the year looks a lot stronger which was the case last year as well. I think they have a wildcard in Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of the novel and also the sequel to The Shining.