Ahh jeez dude . I ' m sorry . <| sep |> I ' ll somewhat disagree . Directors like Nolan , Eastwood , Todd Phillips , Shane Black , Nichols , Affleck , Guy Ritchie , Denis Villeneuve are still there making the movies they want to do . Hell , look at past years and what they ' ve done . They gave George Miller 150 million and let him do his thing . They gave a ton of money to Alfonso and he rewarded them with Gravity . The problem is that for every Inception , Mad Mad Max , Gravity there is a Pan or Jupiter Ascending . WB seemed like they love to have directors do their own thing but when you bet big and lose out , they ' re going to end up cutting back . For some reason they keep giving money to the Wachowskis and it keeps backfiring . Sometimes it works , sometimes it doesn ' t .