There aren’t quite a lot of film followers who don’t have an opinion on Zack Snyder. Relying on who you discuss to his time spent making films at Warner Bros., and particularly spent engaged on DC Movies tasks, was both horrible or great. All people has ideas on Snyder it appears, however whereas differing opinions on high quality are high-quality, one studio govt desires to set the file straight on the precise success of the movies.
Zack Snyder made films for WB beginning in 2004 with 300 and continued working on the studio till 2021, when he completed Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and in addition acted as an govt producer on James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. Greg Silverman, former President of Warner Bros. Photos throughout a lot of that point, lately responded to a tweet claiming that a number of of these tasks misplaced cash. He claimed that, whereas there have been a few films that weren’t worthwhile for WB, the overwhelming majority of Snyder’s output was worthwhile.
Not true. We misplaced some cash on GAHOOLE and a good quantity on SUCKERPUNCH. The remainder of his movies at WB had been very worthwhile. Very. https://t.co/5WuQMuRriHJuly 31, 2023
In case you restrict what you depend as a “Zack Snyder film” to what he directed, there are eight tasks between 300 and Zack Snyder’s Justice League. In case you embrace the flicks that he additionally produced, nonetheless, you’re speaking about much more. It’s unclear what metric Silverson is utilizing, however both approach, there’s definitely an argument to be made that backs up what he’s saying.
The preliminary tweet that Silverson is responding to is fascinating as a result of it makes reference to a few or 4 “losers” between 300 and his time engaged on DC. Actually, Snyder solely labored on three films in that interval. Two of them are those that Silverson admits misplaced cash. It feels like he may need to agree Sucker Punch was a major failure, although he implies that Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole was solely a reasonable loss.
The third film in query was Snyder’s adaptation of Watchman, which did gross lower than $200 million on the world field workplace and possibly wasn’t profitable theatrically, however the film reportedly offered very effectively on DVD and in line with sources did ultimately grow to be worthwhile. Even Watchman star Patrick Wilson has introduced up the movie lately, exhibiting that it continues to be related. That’s doubtless what additionally occurred with any of Snyder’s different tasks that didn’t instantly flip a revenue on the field workplace. We all know the Blu-ray launch of Zack Snyder’s Justice League offered quite a lot of copies to the followers nonetheless holding out hope for a future for the Snyderverse.
In fact, while you embrace films that Zack Snyder produced for Warner Bros. you are including in films like Aquaman and its $1 billion field workplace and the insanely widespread Surprise Lady film.
Hollywood accounting will get talked about rather a lot however the reality is that it’s troublesome to know from the skin simply how a lot a film prices to make, and it is equally troublesome to know what number of potential avenues for revenue there are for any given film. Whereas lots of Snyder’s films could not have made as a lot cash on the field workplace as WB could have hoped, and a few may need even misplaced cash there, it sounds just like the overwhelming majority of his tasks had been in the end money-makers.
