Doctor Sleep, The Good Liar, Motherless Brooklyn box office: Warner Bros' 2019 slate has few hits, more misses

Doctor Sleep, boasted all the right credentials — good reviews, the Stephen King brand and backing from Warner Bros., and yet failed to create an impact at box office Warner Bros’ Doctor Sleep, much-anticipated sequel of The Shining, has failed to create an impact at the box office. Despite a mediocre performance_, The Hollywood R eporter_ revealed that “movie studio chief Toby Emmerich had already struck a deal with director Mike Flanagan and his Intrepid Pictures to script a sequel whose working title is Hallorann, drawn from the character who appears in both The Shining and Doctor Sleep.” However, these footfalls may affect studio’s plans of producing a sequel of the film. Two of Warner Bros’ films— Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Goldfinch starring Ansel Elgort — rank among the worst opening weekends of all time. The Good Liar, starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen, only deepened wounds when it debuted this weekend to a muted $5.6 million, becoming the studio’s latest literary adaptation that failed to entice audiences, reports Variety.