TaylorSwiftFan
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Was probably going to be crap anyway.
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Batgirl Will Not Be Released In Theaters Or On HBO Max As Warner Bros. Scraps Completed $90 Million Movie
- Thread starter KyoZz
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Kilau
Member
I don’t think they were the problems, I think the world built around them was the problem. I don’t know how you could continue their versions with so much weighing them down.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Hard for Cavill. Impossible for Affleck. The Batman under Reeves will be the only Batman going forward. That's if they continue with anything that exists now...
Konnor
Member
TaylorSwiftFan
Member
Writer of Birds of Prey as well.
Konnor
Member
The only thing I remember from that movie was how much I hated it
The takeaway there is no HBO max only films with more than a 35 million dollar budget.
WTF can you get for less than that these days? Small cast horror, rom-coms, and westerns, I think.
No fantasy, sci-fi, or action films can go that low anymore.
Bladed Thesis
Member
Is this not true since it has now come out the screenings were absolute dogshit?
Bragr
Banned
All those guys are from the old Marvel, who are the new ones? that random nobody from Shang Chi? who the hell is supposed to star in the new movies?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
people are saying HBO Max is getting folded into Discovery+
They just dumped a bunch of their original programming off the service.
variety.com
I really hope they don't kill it off. HBO Max has been pretty fantastic.
They just dumped a bunch of their original programming off the service.
HBO Max Quietly Removed Six Warner Bros. Streaming-Exclusive Movies
HBO Max has purged at least six Warner Bros. movies that were exclusively streaming on the service in an apparent cost-cutting move.
variety.com
I really hope they don't kill it off. HBO Max has been pretty fantastic.
Konnor
Member
They're gonna do it the Disney way, they're gonna put the remaining old superheroes front and center of their marketing campaign but the movies are going to be bait and switch full of the bland new characters no one cares about. They did it with Star Wars and they're going to do it with this shit now.
anthony2690
Member
I really enjoyed the birds of prey movie...
Kraz
Member
Random nobody? Abomination? are you talking about Tim Roth? He's in She-Hulk.
Madflavor
Member
DC cinematic universeplease stop, and only make tv series .. The Batman was so bad I fell asleep , hasn’t happened in 15 years when watching a movie , I didn’t even bother to finish the movie afterwards.
They can't even do that right, at least not on a consistent level. Like their films, some shows are bad, others good. It's not like the MCU where their content ranges from Mediocre - Great. The quality of DC Films/Shows are all over the place.
Fucking unbelievable. There's just no excuse for Warner Bros to have handled this property so poorly. The MCU managed to make Ant Man, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange and the Guardians more relevant today than Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. How do you do that? WB was given the best comic book universe and the most recognizable superheroes on a platinum platter, and look what they did with it.
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
Marvel is run by people who love the source material. DC isn’t.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
People seem to forget that Man of Steel was primarily written by David Goyer.
The same David Goyer who then said Martian Manhunter was too goofy to work in a movie.
Goyer's pretty good imho. I worked on a bunch of (movie to game) adaptations over the years and I really enjoyed his work on Blade and Blade 2. The latter to the extent that I was quite disappointed in the released picture with Del Toro's (?) changes.
Writers have their own peculiar tastes and sensibilities, but on top of that there's the whole studio machine which is all about the profit motive. I can't really fault them when they have so little swing in the face of the business side. The hard reality is if you get tasked with doing a draft or polish you'd be very foolish to fly in the face of any production notes or guidance thrown your way, because if YOU won't do the job THEIR way, there's always somebody that will!
Every char has the capacity to be great, I thought the same about a Peacemaker show and look how that turned out.
You just need the correct crew to make it.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Canceling a movie is fascinating especially today where you’re encouraged to make crap.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
ManaByte
Banned
Blue Beetle right now
Blue Beetle was made for theaters and they're saying it's being spared for accounting reasons. Guess the bot army is going to need to review bomb it after all.
The Dish: What’s Behind The ‘Batgirl’ & ‘Scoob!’ Discard? David Zaslav’s Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar’s HBO Max Strategy
The Dish: What's Behind The 'Batgirl' & 'Scoob!' Discard? David Zaslav's Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar's HBO Max Strategy
deadline.com
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Blue Beetle was made for theaters and they're saying it's being spared for accounting reasons. Guess the bot army is going to need to review bomb it after all.
The Dish: What’s Behind The ‘Batgirl’ & ‘Scoob!’ Discard? David Zaslav’s Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar’s HBO Max Strategy
The Dish: What's Behind The 'Batgirl' & 'Scoob!' Discard? David Zaslav's Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar's HBO Max Strategy
Is Blue Beetle pretty much a stand alone? That'll help it's survivability too, if it's not too bad a flick.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
As long as they keep it as part of my ATT cell service I do not care. I like the HBO perk.
Bragr
Banned
Random nobody as in the lead guy. She-Hulk is a random nobody too. Nobody cares or remembers these actors.
GymWolf
Gold Member
The actress in she-hulk is a bit famous serial tv wise.
funkygunther
Banned
Release The Irredeemable Cut!
ManaByte
Banned
Time to hire an ad agency to create some fake leaders of a movement and fire up a bot army to spam that on every WBD social media post.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Apparently, David Zaslav has voiced a desire to work with JK Rowling on new Harry Potter content… which, as I’m sure you can imagine, adds a new dimension to some of the social media commentary about this cancellation.
ManaByte
Banned
Don't worry, as soon as he announces the new Superman movie won't have any connection to the previous ones the bots will label him a "snake" and won't stop until he's ousted.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
I suspect ‘no more Batfleck, only Battinson’ will do much the same thing.
Bragr
Banned
So is Kevin Sorbo. It's just random actors. Nothing to look forward to. There is nobody I wanna see act in the entire Marvel universe right now, while earlier on, I was curious about how they would team up and stuff.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
They can right the ship even with what's out there. Just have to hire the right writers, directors and crew behind the scenes... People who are fans yet highly competent in what they do.
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Old leadership is out (throw crap at the wall and see what sticks while losing money)
And new leadership is in (throw out what doesn't work and keep what does)...
There's been some good stuff in the DCEU along with the bad. Wonder Woman 1 was pretty good (3rd act notwithstanding), Man of Steel was better received by the movie goers (except for Donner fans who wanted a movie where everyone accepted an alien in their midst and was perfect in every way except in la Amor), etc.
Also, Zaslav has Bob Iger and Alan Horn advising him for building WB and DC back up.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I mean he's been part of Teen Titans but for the purpose of WB's movies yeah he is standalone.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Yet he cancels Batgirl (with Batman) and Scooby-Doo, 2 pillars of the DCEU?
Synergy, man!
FunkMiller
Gold Member
They can’t. It’s a tax write down.
DKehoe
Member
It is a joke referencing The Rehersal, Nathan Fielder's new show.
Kamina
Golden Boy
What does that mean?
They reported it as failed product and can save the taxes instead?
ManaByte
Banned
Yet he cancels Batgirl (with Batman) and Scooby-Doo, 2 pillars of the DCEU?
Synergy, man!
He only wants those pillars on the big screen.
I wonder if he's going to cancel Peacemaker, even though the first season got all those Emmy nominations.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Pretty much. Anything written off for a tax deduction cannot ever make a penny in profit.
Danteyke223
Member
Speculation Is on Fire Around HBO Max's Future, Planned Layoffs in Major Streaming Shake-Up
Hollywood is buzzing around Warner Bros. Discovery's upcoming earnings results and plans for a combined streaming service, which can upend its most popular streamer
www.thewrap.com
The new CEO is ... I don't know can somebody explain why he's cutting cost so much on a streaming service that is really successful in terms of user base? wasn't this one of the biggest leaps for them ?
Is my Venture Brothers / Metalocalypse movies in danger now ?
Close Enough already got cancelled and so did Raised by Wolves...