Dreams Don't Come True
When an ambitious project like Doctor Sleep is released, viewers immediately start wondering if there will be a sequel. Apparently, Warner Bros. I also thought. The bosses of the major believed so much in the potential of horror that even before its premiere, they began working on a sequel and entrusted the script to Mike Flanagan, the director of Doctor Sleep.Now, after the disappointing results of the box office, we can say with a high degree of probability that the project with the preliminary name "Halloran" will never be implemented. On its first weekend at the American box office, Doctor Sleep earned a modest $ 14.1 million, while analysts predicted a start at $ 25-50 million. Now one can only guess what it would have been about in "Halloran". From the name it is clear that the main character of the project was to be Dick Halloran, who appeared in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Doctor Sleep. Perhaps viewers would have seen a prequel about how Halloran discovered his radiance.  The only way Halloran can get to the screens is to shoot an ordinary low-budget horror movie. The studio will not spend $ 50 million on the project after the outright failure of Doctor Sleep. Analysts, in turn, continue to look for the reasons for such an unsuccessful financial start. Some argue that "Doctor Sleep" did not find support from a young audience poorly aware of the existence of the book and movie "Shining", while others believe that the best month for horror is after all October, not November, and on the eve of Halloween viewers are more willing to watch horror. In any case, WB is already calculating the losses that Doctor Sleep will bring them, and according to preliminary data, they will amount to about $ 20 million, or even more. Source: The Hollywood Reporter The Topic of Article: Dreams Don't Come True. |
