Cloverfield got booted to Feb 2nd, 2018.
So that leaves Paramount with:
mother!
Suburbicon
Daddy's Home 2
Downsizing
for the rest of the year... They're going to finish this year behind Lionsgate, aren't they?
I mean for all the shit Sony (mostly deservedly) gets, Paramount has been more dysfunctional for a while. I don't think they've launched a single franchise/series which has had all of its films make over $100 million domestic since G.I. Joe
in 2009. Well there is How to Train Your Dragon but they only released the first one, so not sure if that one counts.
By comparison Sony has had; Hotel Transylvania (2 films, 3rd in production), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2 films, seems dead), Jump Street (2 films, 3rd in development hell), Amazing Spider Man (2 films, rebooted), and Grown Ups (2 films, no 3rd one thank god).
Deadline Projections after Saturday 12:53 am
You left out the best quote from the article
Dunkirk will somehow make money, one packager praised about its prospects, Dont ask me how, but I am done betting against Chris Nolan.
I just don't know how STX had the money to fund this (I'm sure there's other investors? cause they don't have any big enough hits to be able to front all that:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=stx.htm) or how they got tricked/convinced this was going to be the next Avatar or Guardians of the Galaxy or something and the movie's budget should be that much.
They didn't.
It's being financed by Europacorp (Besson's company), and they're doing it via pre-sales, tax rebates, and Taken money.