According to the Wall Street Journal on the 7th (local time), Village Roadshow Entertainment, a co-producer of "Matrix: Reservation," filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. in the Los Angeles District Court on the same day.
Village Roadshow reportedly claimed in the complaint that "Wanna Brothers violated the contract and decided to release OTT with the theater at the same time, negatively affecting the box office success."
Warner Bros. simultaneously unveiled "Matrix: Reservation" at the theater and HBO Max on December 21 last year. The film earned $37 million at the North American box office and $150 million worldwide, failing to save $170 million in production costs.
Matrix: Reservation is a SF action blockbuster depicting a confrontation between artificial intelligence computers and humans against them in Matrix, a computer program and virtual reality space that dominates the human brain against the backdrop of the future world. It drew attention with the revival of the series for the first time in 18 years, but failed to hit the box office with only 210,000 people in Korea.
