Warner Bros kicked off its CinemaCon presentation Tuesday with its two biggest swings yet: Paul Thomas Anderson‘s $140M rebel Leonardo DiCaprio feature One Battle After Another and following that with a look at Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!
It was a smart and shrewd move by Warner Bros motion picture co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, who’ve been under fire for making those audacious titles at lofty budgets.
They wanted to show exhibs the goods, how great these pics are — mission accomplished. DiCaprio showed up with his co-stars Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor. “I wanted to work for Paul for 20 years now,” said DiCaprio (his father co-starred in Anderson’s Licorice Pizza).
Continued the Oscar winner about Anderson, “He tapped into something politically and culturally that is right beneath our psyche.
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