Warner Bros. vs. Christopher Nolan: Streaming vs. Theaters

Imagine Commissioner Gordon’s face getting ripped off by Batman and you’ll have some sense of what has just happened at the most accomplished movie studio in the world.

Warner Brothers, in historical terms the leading Hollywood studio, has over the course of many corporate restructurings maintained its reputation as a haven for artists such as Stanley Kubrick and Clint Eastwood who repaid WB with their loyalty and spent many years working there happily. Today, Warner’s most important creative talent is Christopher Nolan, who since he became a major filmmaking force with Memento has made all of his pictures at Warner, except Interstellar, which he made for Paramount only because that studio held the rights to the story.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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Imagine Commissioner Gordon’s face getting ripped off by Batman and you’ll have some sense of what has just happened at the most accomplished movie studio in the world.

Warner Brothers, in historical terms the leading Hollywood studio, has over the course of many corporate restructurings maintained its reputation as a haven for artists such as Stanley Kubrick and Clint Eastwood who repaid WB with their loyalty and spent many years working there happily. Today, Warner’s most important creative talent is Christopher Nolan, who since he became a major filmmaking force with Memento has made all of his pictures at Warner, except Interstellar, which he made for Paramount only because that studio held the rights to the story.