You don’t want me to let you know that the phrase that drives all of Hollywood motion pictures lately isn’t even a phrase. It’s two letters: IP. No franchise is ever actually useless as long as there may be more cash to be constructed from it.
For instance, the Harry Potter story was at all times supposed as a finite one, which concluded in each J.Okay. Rowling’s novels and the film diversifications with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The wizarding world has been expanded in several methods since then, just like the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them motion pictures and the Harry Potter stage play, however Rowling hasn’t written a brand new Harry Potter novel in properly over a decade.
But that isn’t stopping Warner Bros., the studio that produced the Harry Potter franchise, from on the lookout for methods to begin it again up once more. During a name with traders this week, the pinnacle of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, stated that his firm‘s focus is “franchises” — including, potentially, Harry Potter. As he put it:
We haven’t had a Superman film in 13 years. We haven’t carried out a Harry Potter in 15 years. The DC motion pictures and the Harry Potter motion pictures supplied numerous the earnings for Warner Bros…over the previous 25 years.
Zaslav’s numbers aren’t fairly proper. The final solo Superman film, Man of Steel, got here out 9 years in the past. And the ultimate Harry Potter movie was in 2011. (Dating the sequence finish to “15 years” in the past additionally, fairly apparently, ignores the truth that since then the corporate has launched three Potter prequels within the type of the Fantastic Beasts sequence. That in all probability tells you a large number about how properly these motion pictures have carried out for the corporate.) Zaslav stated WBD may be very intent on making new movies “if we can do something with J.K. on Harry Potter going forward.”
That would appear to be a not insignificant if, since Rowling has thus far resisted the stress to write a brand new Harry Potter novel (and continues to make monumental quantities of cash from the merchandising and licensing of those she already did write). The ball — or I suppose the Golden Snitch on this case — is in her court docket.
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