In summer box office wrap up episode of his podcast This Town, while discussing Twisters' performance Matt Belloni mentioned that per their deal, WB and Uni will split the revenue of the movie despite it performing much better in the domestically (where Universal distributed it) than overseas (handled by WB). I found that interesting so I thought I'd share it here since there has been some discussion about the probability of this movie.
Matt didn't say this, but I am guessing they must have split the cost of the movie as well if they are splitting the profits.
by magikarpcatcher
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I’m pretty sure one of the trades (Variety maybe?) already confirmed this.
Good for WB
Overall pretty good year for WB: Wonka legged out well over into this year, Dune 2 & GxK were big hits, broke even on Twisters and Trap, and Beetlejuice 2 is looking to be a big hit as well.
All that’s left is Joker 2, which should be a big hit, even if it sees a decent drop off from the first film and that animated Lotr film in December which is a massive wild card.
The only films WB financed that bombed is Furiosa and The Watchers which WB paid 30 mil USD for.