Warner Bros. Pictures Crosses Billion-Dollar Mark at the Domestic Box Office August 5, 2014
WB REMAINS THE ONLY STUDIO IN HISTORY TO SURPASS $1 BILLION DOMESTICALLY FOR 14 CONSECUTIVE YEARS
BURBANK, CA - On Monday, August 4, Warner Bros. Pictures became the only film studio in history to earn more than $1 billion at the domestic box office for 14 years in a row. In fact, the division has crossed the billion-dollar mark for 15 of the past 16 years. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures' President of Domestic Distribution.
The studio passed the billion-dollar threshold thanks to a huge first quarter, featuring the box office success of New Line Cinema's and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures' The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second in Peter Jackson's Trilogy, which opened in late 2013 but which enjoyed substantial returns in the first quarter of this year. 2014 continued to build with Warner Bros. Pictures', Village Roadshow Pictures' and LEGO System A/S's blockbuster animated feature The LEGO Movie -which was the #1 movie for the first half of 2014-and 300: Rise of an Empire, the heavy-hitting follow up to Zack Snyder's groundbreaking 300, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Summer started with a bang thanks to the monster hit Godzilla, from Warner Bros. and Legendary, IMAX 's largest opening this year, followed by Doug Liman's action thriller from Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow, Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, and one-of-a-kind comedy from Melissa McCarthy as New Line's Tammy.
In making the announcement, Fellman said, This is a proud day for our studio. To cross such an extraordinary milestone once again is a direct reflection of the high standards and incredible efforts of the dedicated and creative individuals at work here, both on and off the screen. We still have an exciting roster of films yet to open this calendar year and, together with the talented teams bringing them to the theater, we look forward to continued success.
Still to come in 2014 from Warner Bros. Pictures are: New Line Cinema's and Village Roadshow Pictures' Into the Storm, opening this week; New Line's and MGM's If I Stay ; Alcon Entertainment's Dolphin Tale 2 ; the dramatic comedy ensemble of This Is Where I Leave You, starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda; Annabelle, another chapter in New Line's highly successful The Conjuring ; Alcon's, Imagine Entertainment's and Black Label Media's tale of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, The Good Lie, starring Reese Witherspoon; David Dobkin's The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall in tour-de-force performances, from Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow; New Line's sequel to the hit comedy Horrible Bosses, Horrible Bosses 2, reuniting the stars from the original, including Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day; Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson's surf noir adaptation of author Thomas Pynchon's cult favorite novel; and from New Line and MGM, the much-anticipated finale to Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
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Warner Bros. Pictures Crosses Billion-Dollar Mark at the Domestic Box Office August 5, 2014
