Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 | Now Warner Bros won’t report box office numbers

Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 arrives in cinemas – eventually – next week. But don’t expect any box office reporting in the US…

If, as has been rumoured, the movie Juror #2 is to be the last to be made by Clint Eastwood (appreciating it may actually not be), then it seems to be getting a fairly shoddy hand from Warner Bros. The studio has been Eastwood’s filmmaking home for decades, delivering a constant collection of films and no shortage of money. Yet Juror #2 feels like it’s been bounced around an internal studio decision-making system.

At one stage, the film was being planned, it’s reported, for a streaming-only release. Then, it was finally confirmed to be arriving in cinemas. Then it turns out that in America, it’s only going to 50 cinemas. Now it’s also been left off Warner Bros awards campaigning list for this season.

The latest revelation is that Warner Bros will now not be reporting on any box office numbers for Juror #2, and nor does it have any plans to expand it beyond that initial 50 screen run.

It could well be that the film is terrible, and Warner Bros has the advantage of having seen a cut. But also, that seems unlikely. Still, it gets its cinema release in a week, and will debut at the AFI Film Festival over this coming weekend. Then we’ll have a clearer idea as to any mitigating factors behind Warner Bros’ curious approach here.

Certainly it’s hard to imagine Eastwood thriving in the David Zaslav era of Warner Bros corporate decision making. But even as a tip of the hat and a show of respect to a man that’s brought gigantic successes to the studio, it could do a bit better than this.

Here in the UK, the film is getting a cinema release next week, on Friday 1st November. We’ve not seen any advertising for that release, mind, but who knows? Maybe the billboards all go up on Monday.

Variety has more on the saga behind the film, here.