Warner Bros. Discovery Open To Extra Harry Potter Films With J.Okay. Rowling

Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav is open to engaged on extra Harry Potter films with J.Okay. Rowling.

Throughout Warner Bros. Discovery’s Q3 earnings name on Thursday, David Zaslav cited Harry Potter as one of many franchises he’s hoping to proceed durind his tenure on the studio. The chief expressed his curiosity in reteaming with Harry Potter writer J.Okay. Rowling for extra Wizarding World initiatives following the discharge of this 12 months’s Implausible Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore.

“We’re going to have an actual deal with franchises,” David Zaslav defined. “We haven’t had a Superman film in 13 years. We haven’t performed a Harry Potter film in 15 years. The DC films and the Harry Potter films supplied a number of the income of Warner Bros. Movement Footage over the past 25 years. So a deal with the franchise — one of many huge benefits that we’ve got, Home of the Dragon is an instance of that, Recreation of Thrones, profiting from Intercourse and the Metropolis, Lord of the Rings — we nonetheless have the correct to do Lord of the Rings films. What are the films which have manufacturers which can be understood and liked in every single place on the planet?”

Zaslav continued: “Outdoors the U.S., most within the combination, Europe, Latin America, Asia, have 40% of the theaters that we’ve got right here within the U.S. and there may be native content material. And so when you have got a franchise film, you possibly can usually make two to a few instances the amount of cash that you just make within the U.S., since you get a slot. And a deal with the massive films which can be liked, which can be tentpoled, that individuals are going to depart early from dinner to go to see — and we’ve got a number of them. Batman, Superman, Aquaman, if we will do one thing with J.Okay. [Rowling] on Harry Potter going ahead, Lord of the Rings, what are we doing with Recreation of Thrones? What are we doing with a number of the massive franchises that we’ve got? We’re targeted on franchises.”

Warner Bros. launched eight Harry Potter films between 2001 to 2011 and three Implausible Beasts films between 2016 to 2022, with the final one hitting theaters on the identical day it accomplished its merger with Discovery. The eleven initiatives have collectively grossed over $9.6 billion on the worldwide field workplace, making J. Okay. Rowling’s Wizarding World probably the most profitable franchises of all time.

Nevertheless, Implausible Beasts hasn’t been doing in addition to Harry Potter, with the final film, The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore, incomes $405.2 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing Wizarding World film to this point. Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have any Wizarding World initiatives in lively growth proper now, as reported by Selection.

Within the years because the launch of the eight Harry Potter films, J. Okay. Rowling has additionally turn into a controversial determine over a collection of assaults in direction of the transgender neighborhood. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and different Wizarding World stars have spoken out in opposition to Rowling’s anti-trans views over the previous few years.

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Supply: EW