“As soon as you’re given that allowance, you can see things that you couldn’t see before, because there weren’t a bunch of attachments to it,” adds Bullock. “Then it was brought back to me by Elizabeth Raposo, who was at Paramount at that time, and she said, ‘You can do what you want with it.,” adds the Oscar winning actress, who is also a producer there. Talking to Deadline at SXSW, Bullock said that she had read Lost City a few years ago, “But I said ‘No’, this is outdated, it had been on the shelf for seven years.” Even the younger-skewing stuff, when made at the right price, is a box office cash cow. IP, and that’s currency which will go a long way for a long time. Even though Marvel departed Paramount for Disney a while ago, the former studio is still franchise-rich in its Nickelodeon, Hasbro, etc. His talent and experience is in building franchises, and that’s on the streaming and the theatrical side.Īs the box office bounces back, industry executives are reminded about the riches inherent in the ancillary model, especially in the streaming age. Not true: This guy isn’t going to burn down a great theatrical slate to keep warm. In the switch-off from Jim Gianopulos to Brian Robbins as Paramount Studios boss, the latter was immediately painted by the media as a guy who was primed to embrace theatrical day-and-date, as Paramount Global board chair Shari Redstone looked to mushroom the studio’s fledgling streaming service Paramount+.
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It’s the studio’s third movie to open at No 1 this year, after Scream and Jackass Forever. Lost City‘s debut ranks second for Paramount during the pandemic, behind A Quiet Place Part II ($47.5M). “This is very much a crowd-pleasing movie, and it points toward people want to laugh and they want to be entertained after the last two years we’ve been through,” added Aronson about feature comedy’s return at the B.O. “But it shows that movies still matter.” Sandra Bullock, Paramount Studios president Brian Robbins, producer Liza Chasin and Daniel Radcliffe at the SXSW world premiere of ‘Lost City’ AP “It’s kind of a throwback,” says Paramount Domestic Distribution Boss Chris Aronson this morning. Milestone Notches Record 2.1M+ Digital Sales: How The Pic Changed The Industry's Mindset 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Hitting $800M Domestic B.O.
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