By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
What Does Toby Emmerich’s New Line (at WB) Look Like Over Last 5 Years?
TITLE | WW | DOM | INT | ||
The Conjuring 2 | $320.20 | $102.50 | 32.00% | $217.70 | 68.00% |
Central Intelligence | $217.00 | $127.40 | 58.70% | $89.50 | 41.30% |
Me Before You | $207.80 | $56.20 | 27.10% | $151.60 | 72.90% |
Lights Out | $148.80 | $67.30 | 45.20% | $81.50 | 54.80% |
How to Be Single | $112.30 | $46.80 | 41.70% | $65.50 | 58.30% |
Barbershop: The Next Cut | $55.00 | $54.00 | 98.20% | $1.00 | 1.80% |
Keanu | $20.60 | $20.60 | 100.00% | n/a | 0.00% |
San Andreas | $474.00 | $155.20 | 32.70% | $318.80 | 67.30% |
Creed | $173.60 | $109.80 | 63.20% | $63.80 | 36.80% |
Vacation | $104.90 | $58.90 | 56.10% | $46.00 | 43.90% |
Hot Pursuit | $51.70 | $34.60 | 66.90% | $17.10 | 33.10% |
The Gallows | $43.00 | $22.80 | 53.00% | $20.20 | 47.00% |
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $956.00 | $255.10 | 26.70% | $700.90 | 73.30% |
Annabelle | $256.90 | $84.30 | 32.80% | $172.60 | 67.20% |
Into The Storm | $161.70 | $47.60 | 29.40% | $114.10 | 70.60% |
Tammy | $100.50 | $84.50 | 84.10% | $16.00 | 15.90% |
If I Stay | $78.90 | $50.50 | 64.00% | $28.40 | 36.00% |
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | $958.40 | $258.40 | 27.00% | $700.00 | 73.00% |
The Conjuring | $318.00 | $137.40 | 43.20% | $180.60 | 56.80% |
We’re the Millers | $270.00 | $150.40 | 55.70% | $119.60 | 44.30% |
Jack the Giant Slayer | $197.70 | $65.20 | 33.00% | $132.50 | 67.00% |
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone | $27.40 | $22.50 | 82.10% | $4.90 | 17.90% |
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | $1,021.10 | $303.00 | 29.70% | $718.10 | 70.30% |
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | $335.30 | $103.90 | 31.00% | $231.40 | 69.00% |
Rock of Ages | $59.40 | $38.50 | 64.80% | $20.90 | 35.20 |
Emmerich’s movies, aside from the Hobbit films, have grossed $3.7 billion over the past 5 years. Bombs became increasingly rare over those years, but so did risky investments of size. Central Intelligence, which is being positioned as Emmerich’s big higher-end success in recent years, was one of Kevin Hart’s biggest films, but Dwayne Johnson’s lowest worldwide grosser since 2013, though it is also one of his highest grossing non-action films.
Central Intelligence was an action movie. It just had humors elements