‘Suicide Squad’ Could Have Been ‘Better on the Creative,’ Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes Admits

However, the big boss at Warner Bros. said it was a strategic and financial success

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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said box office hits “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad” hit the mark financially, but he acknowledged sympathies with many of the critics who gave those DC Comics movies mediocre scores.

At Goldman Sachs Communacopia, a three-day media conference in New York, Bewkes won some laughs from the room when he warned against listening to the critics too much, but gave credence to some of their complaints.

“We do think there’s a little room for improvement,” he said. “We can do a little bit better on the creative.”

Bewkes also seemed to agree with the common assessment that the DC movies were too dark, especially compared with Disney’s technicolor Marvel universe.

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