How Warner Bros. Dominated Movies in 2025

If you’re looking for evidence that William Goldman’s maxim about the movie industry—“nobody knows anything”—is as true today as it was in 1983, you could do worse than a piece published by Variety on March 28. “Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy Under Fire at Warner Bros. Amid Box Office Flops,” its headline proclaimed, invoking the coheads of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. What followed made the Warners film division sound as chaotic and troubled as the one from The Studio, if not One Battle After Another’s fractious French 75.