Warner Bros. Shakeup Continues As Toby Emmerich Is Promoted To Group Chairman; Sue Kroll Steps Down

Warner Bros. Shakeup Continues As Toby Emmerich Is Promoted To Group Chairman; Sue Kroll Steps Down

Though this will have far less of an impact on WB's DC division than the last announcement will, reports have come in that the studio has promoted Toby Emmerich to chairman of the motion picture group...

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By MarkCassidy - Jan 09, 2018 12:01 PM EST
Filed Under: DC Studios
We recently found out that some big changes were going to be implemented at Warner Bros. in the aftermath of Justice League's disappointing box office run, and that continues with today's announcement that Toby Emmerich will now effectively run the studio.

Following the recent news that The Conjuring and IT executive producer Walter Hamada will now be in charge of spearheading WB's upcoming slate of DC projects, The Wrap reports that Emmerich has been promoted to chairman of the motion picture group, and will oversee Worldwide Theatrical Production, Marketing, and Distribution.

Meanwhile, former marketing exec Sue Kroll will move to a production position.

We're not sure what kind of impact (if any) this will have on The DC Films Universe - though it is worth noting that Kroll was responsible for the marketing campaign on Justice League.

What do you guys make of this latest development? Sound off in the usual place.
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Knightrider
Knightrider - 1/9/2018, 12:21 PM
I’m interested to see what they do, it seems that general audiences have lost some faith in this universe so how they reclaim that will be difficult.

Personally, I would say do a soft-reboot hire people willing to play characters for 5-6 movies and go from there. Can’t do much if don’t know what is happening one day to the next
ELAYEM
ELAYEM - 1/9/2018, 12:26 PM
It wasnt reported here but Geoff Johns is actually still co-head of DC Films alongside Walter Hamada
ELAYEM
ELAYEM - 1/9/2018, 12:28 PM
I researched Walter Hamada and out of the 18 films he has produced, 13 have been really poorly received. Like worse than BvS and SS.

Really hope things start getting better for the DCEU but finding that out doesnt boost my confidence.
Yaf
Yaf - 1/9/2018, 12:54 PM
@ELAYEM - It's less how they've been received but more how they made money or how they lost money. That's why Disney and Fox are all Kinberg's ass - the dude's a really talented producer even if he's a terrible writer. Even if the movie is terribly received and ends up being a loss, it's usually not that big of a loss because of him. I mean, X-Men: Apocalypse has a 5.7 average rating and made back 2.5x its budget.

Yet Hamada is no Kinberg (man that's an accomplishment) but I would guarantee he was only hired because of his work on the Conjuring franchise. It showed that he can cheaply make a mostly well received movie franchise. What else has he done? 47 Ronin. That's a colossal failure.
Tevii
Tevii - 1/9/2018, 12:30 PM
Actually the Marketing behind Justice League was pretty good... at least digital marketing. Traditional marketing couldve been better.

WB's interference is what ruined the movie - 2 hours max to introduce 3 new heroes, introduce a villain, bring Superman back from the dead, have meaningful interaction between Batman and Wonder Woman... I actually think they did great considering. But it needed more time.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/9/2018, 12:55 PM
@Tevii - Time? Man, they needed more movies!
Goldboink
Goldboink - 1/9/2018, 1:00 PM
@GwenLantern - @Tevii - Time was what they needed. Time to develop the characters, time to fine tune the scripts and time to develop a long term narrative and plot outline for the universe.

All of the problems with all of thier movies could have been solved with another year of development rather than trying to hit a release date that they put dibs on before you were hired to make a movie.
ForDarkseid
ForDarkseid - 1/9/2018, 1:07 PM
@Tevii - Hard to believe this is the same studio that did LOTR and thought a 2 hour Justice League was a good idea.
WarnerBrother
WarnerBrother - 1/9/2018, 1:19 PM
@ForDarkseid -

Its the same studio drawing the wrong lessons from BvS regarding film length.

WB should have seen from the beginning that Snyder was going for a long epic
which means fewer shows per day and not fall into the trap of expecting its film
to have make as much as an Avengers?Civil War Marvel film because Batman and
Superman is in it.

Let Snyder put his directors cut out and BvS would have been a modern classic.
GAThrawnIGF
GAThrawnIGF - 1/9/2018, 5:37 PM
@Tevii - Age of Ultron did the same thing and yet everyone is worshipping that movie's ass. 2 hours to introduce Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Vision, kill one of them off for shock value, build up the tension between Iron Man and Cap for eventual Civil War, introduce a just-OK supervillain in Ultron, tease us with Klaw and then bring him back years later when everyone will have forgotten he was even in the MCU, build up a craptastic romance between Black Widow and Banner that went absolutely nowhere and even involved giving Hawkeye a family out of NOWHERE just to make sure Black Widow & Hawkeye couldn't be a thing like, you know, the actual comics of old.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 1/9/2018, 12:30 PM


ForDarkseid
ForDarkseid - 1/9/2018, 12:35 PM
Don't be surprised if Peter Safran becomes one of their regular producers. He's already involved with Aquaman and Shazam.

Nothing is changing. Toby Emmerich just got a promotion which is arguably deserves due to the overall success of the studio in 2017 but Sue Kroll was great at her job. Seems like Warner Bros just looking for another scapegoat while Kevin Tsujihara and Toby Emmerich line their pockets.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/9/2018, 12:36 PM
Scapegoats galore
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 1/9/2018, 12:37 PM
WB is a great studio, there is no denying that. They have done DC wrong and they need to do better.

Again such wonderful movies lines like

1. Harry Potter
2. LOTR
3. Hobbit
4. Mad Max
5. Nolans Trilogy
6. Superman
7. The Matrix

And many amazing movies. They need to go back to their roots.
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