Warner Bros lost $50 million on Tenet. Then they made a decision that has sent $1.2 billion to their rival Universal so far.
Tenet came out in September 2020, mid-pandemic. It made $365M on a $200M budget. Not enough.
Warner Bros panicked. Three months later they announced every 2021 movie would go straight to HBO Max the same day it hit theaters. They didn't warn a single director.
Christopher Nolan had made them The Dark Knight, Inception, and Interstellar over 20 years. He said filmmakers went to bed working for the greatest studio and woke up working for "the worst streaming service."
Then he took his next movie shopping. His asking price was simple. Pay for the film, promise it plays in theaters only, and give me 20% of every ticket.
Universal said yes. That movie was Oppenheimer. $976 million. Best Picture.
Warner Bros begged him to come back. He said no. His new film The Odyssey just opened to $264 million, the biggest debut of his career.
The cheapest thing Warner Bros ever lost was $50 million.
B Hen got PRESSED by Jeff Teague’s Mom after he told her to “come get it back in blood” 😭😭
“Oh thats Miss Carol? Hey Miss Carol”
“You about to get smacked… You better recognize and know who you’re talking to” 💀
The reported reason behind WALTER’s name being changed to GUNTHER was because Vince McMahon believed people would start calling him ‘Wally.’
A name McMahon did not want ‘for a foreign menace heel.’
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