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Small Movies, Big Profits: Sydney Sweeney And Glen Powell’s Rom-Com, Horror Hits Among Overachievers In Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
Anyone But You, Scream VI and more were inexpensive movies to make but made big bucks for their studios.
Despite bumps in the road during the production of this horror fifthquel, Sony Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman remained adamant that Insidious: The Red Door stick to its post-July 4 weekend release date, sandwiched between Disney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The pic’s director Michael Chaves, after being discovered by New Line execs Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter and assigned to helm 2019’s The Curse of La Llorona(Small Movie, Big Profits title from that year’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament), was invited to take the reins here. Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav has the studio shift away from that strategy (for the most part — yes there are exceptions of the reverse, i.e., New Line’s Stephen King movie Salem’s Lot transitioning from theaters to Max), with Evil Dead Rise being one of those titles.
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