
and HBO Max, its corporate sibling, wanted their help in promoting the film, did they not?Īfter a tense negotiation, Warner Bros., which is owned by AT&T, agreed that Ms.

After all, that was what they signed up for, and Warner Bros. Jenkins and the producer Charles Roven (among others) needed to be paid what they most likely would have received had the sequel been released in a traditional manner (an exclusive run in theaters before arriving online) and not during the height of a pandemic. With “Wonder Woman 1984,” agents argued that Ms. Jenkins, had a lot of questions, but the biggest involved money: How are you going to pay them? Gadot as a client, and CAA, which represents Ms.

And they wanted to get the film’s star, Gal Gadot, and director, Patty Jenkins, on board with the plan. The studio wanted to release the much-anticipated “Wonder Woman 1984” simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max on Christmas Day. quietly approached Hollywood’s two biggest talent agencies, William Morris Endeavor and Creative Artists.
