| Fox’s success with lighter fare paves the way for darker films like ‘Water for Elephants’
The adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel, a tale of love in a Great Depression circus, seems risky, but studio boss Tom Rothman says films ‘by grown-ups, for grown-ups’ can do well if they’re made on a limited budget. At a time when studios are obsessed with sequels, “reboots” and family-friendly spectacles, 20th Century Fox is releasing precisely the kind of film that has largely fallen out of …
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