Steve Mnuchin has so much experience in film finance through all of the Dune deals with Fox, we feel very confident. “When I looked closely at the slate, I said, ‘James, we’ve got to do this.’ We’re betting on the whole slate, and we’re betting on that management team of Kevin Tsujihara, Sue Kroll, Dan Fellman, Veronika Kwan-Vandenberg, Greg Silverman and Toby Emmerich at New Line. “Warner Bros is a great studio, with the best marketing and distribution,” Ratner said. Here, the partners are betting on the new Warner Bros management team’s ability to pick winners. RatPac Entertainment will develop its own movies outside the Warner Bros deal. While Ratner happens to be a producer on one of the films covered by the co-fi deal, Horrible Bosses 2, there are no current plans to generate product for Warner Bros to release. It also developed with Warner Bros distributing. Legendary, which grew after being part of such lucrative franchises as The Dark Knight, Inception and Man Of Steel, had a say in which studio movies it co-financed. Warner Bros finally confirmed the slate co-fi deal that has been in the works since the studio’s relationship with Legendary Pictures cratered (the fact that the first film is this Friday’s opener Gravity indicates this wasn’t abrupt). “We are already developing some movies we feel will work in the Asian market.” “Part of our strategy will be to expand into China, to co-finance Chinese movies and films that not only work around the world but Asia in particular,” Rather told me.
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