Tom Cruise, Hollywood pilot
After the announcement of the strategic, but not exclusive, partnership between Warner Bros. and Tom Cruise, the plan is gradually starting to come to fruition for both the studios and the Hollywood superstar. In a new article by Varietywhich summarizes the latest noteworthy information related to the various projects and directions of Warner Bros., we can thus read that Tom Cruise would like to return to “collaborations with authors such as Paul Thomas AndersonThis data, which might initially seem trivial, is actually part of a strategy to increase Warner Bros. Pictures’ performance, both on a commercial and artistic level.
As Variety recalls, Tom Cruise has not been personally nominated for an Oscar since then 24 yearswith an appointment toOscar for best supporting actor for his performance in Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. He had been there before, twiceOscar for best actorin 1990 for Born on July 4th by Oliver Stone and in 1997 for Jerry Maguire by Cameron Crowe. In 2023 it isOscar for best film of which he was named, as producer Top Gun: nonconformist.
Find peaks and prices
This situation is representative of the evolution of his career. An actor who filmed with great directors whose works were praised by critics and favorites at award ceremonies, Tom Cruise was then the favorite action cinema and blockbustersmainly through the saga Mission Impossible. His role as Ethan Hunt in this series is about to end, so the actor has decided to (re)turn to more “artistic” cinema.
However, Tom Cruise is not an “independent” film actor and we should not see him anytime soon, for example, on A24. If he wants to return to the top, this is also the case with Warner Bros. Pictures. In 2023 the A24 studios were the big winners of the Oscars, with the triumph ofEverything everywhere and everything at oncemoving well ahead of Warner Bros. Pictures including the biggie Elvis left empty-handed despite its eight nominations.
In 2024, in fact, there is Barbie and its seven nominations, but Greta Gerwig’s film is not a favorite at all Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures), which is expected to dominate in almost every category they compete in together. Of all the major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. Pictures is currently lagging, as it trails favorite Universal Pictures Oppenheimer AND Winter breakthere is also Paramount Pictures (The Assassins of the Flower Moon), or even Netflix with Master AND Unsinkable.
The Tarantinian dream
The profound reason for the Cruise – Warner partnership is thus concretely revealed: to find the heights of world cinema, featuring an actor eager to give great artistic performances, but at the same time capable of making the box office explode for struggling studios. An ideal marriage therefore. And what first joint project could ideally start this cycle? Quentin Tarantino’s film The film criticwhich currently does not have a distributor, and to which Warner Bros. would therefore dream of acquiring the rights.
Sony Pictures, who collaborated with Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained AND Once upon a time… in HollywoodOR his two biggest box office hits ($425 and $394 million in worldwide revenue), has an edge. But with the recent announcement of a very likely role for Tom Cruise in The film criticWarner studios have strong arguments to convince Quentin Tarantino to join them.
Along with PTA, Quentin Tarantino is Hollywood’s other iconic contemporary “auteur” – so far they have only directed films written by themselves -. But unlike PTA, Quentin Tarantino has a string of box office hits. While PTA doesn’t have huge budgets (its largest was 40 million For Licorice pizza), has never crossed the $80 million mark at the global box office. But all that should change, under Warner’s leadership…
A shower of dollars
Michael de Luca, current co-CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures with Pamel aAbdy, was the head of New Line Cinema in the 1990s, which produced and distributed in particular Boogie evenings AND Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson, with Tom Cruise one of his best roles For Magnolia. In 2008, New Line was purchased by WarnerMedia and integrated into Warner Bros. Pictures.
There is therefore a history between Michael de Luca and PTA, which facilitated the collaboration between Warner Bros. Pictures and PTA for the latter’s new film. The working title of this is BC projecthas Leonardo DiCaprio in the cast, and Warner Bros. The pictures were given a budget of $115 millionaccording to Variety’s sources, including 20 million which represents the stamp of Leonardo DiCaprio.
So, if Tom Cruise is not present in this PTA film, it is still a strong signal sent to him by Warner, underlining his great ambitions for auteur cinema which the superstar wishes to return to. And if the next PTA film turns out to be a financial success, perhaps the next one would be produced again by Warner Bros.. Pictures, with why not Tom Cruise in the casting…
The explosion before the fusion?
A rain of dollars that does not only concern Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio, given the balance of the year Joker 2 reached, again according to Variety, the significant sum of 200 million dollarsof which 20 million for Joaquin Phoenix and 12 million for Lady Gaga.
Also of note is that LuckyChap Entertainment, Margot Robbie’s production company, has a “first-look” deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, meaning that Warner Bros. Pictures has priority over projects developed by Margot Robbie at the inside your company. And that the studios also do not despair of bringing Christopher Nolan “home”, from which he escaped to make Oppenheimer with Universal Pictures.
It therefore seems that the association Tom Cruise – Warner Bros. Pictures, in itself a major event, would therefore only be the tip of the iceberg. Indeed, the superstar is both a very important asset of the studios and the showcase of an in-depth renovation for a prestigious renovation. Warner Bros. Pictures therefore seeks to attract the biggest stars in front of and behind the camera, not hesitating to allocate tens of millions of dollars to achieve this goal.
Although this strategy obviously aims to show the best films possible in cinemas for Warner Bros. Pictures is also for Warner Bros. Discover a way to maximize financial value before a purchase, sale or merger with NBC Universal, owner of Universal Pictures. A merger being considered by Hollywood, and which will soon be possible, two years after the merger between Warner Media and Discovery and two years during which any maneuver of this type was contractually impossible.
Source: Cine Serie
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