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Warner Bros Discovery are broke… Aquaman 2 & Shazam 2 delayed again.

FunkMiller

Banned
So Keaton is out and Batfleck is definitely back. Noice.
*Snif snif* do you smell it? It's the Snyderverse baby !

I do love your ability to spin absolute disaster into gold :messenger_tears_of_joy:

I rather think The Flash will be getting another delay at some point, though. I don't think these delays haven't been made to restore Batfleck, but are a result of WBD having no cash. And if that's the case, why would you even want poor old Ben back in that shit again?
 

KyoZz

Tag, you're it.
I do love your ability to spin absolute disaster into gold :messenger_tears_of_joy:
Thx, I'm an optimist 😁

I rather think The Flash will be getting another delay at some point, though. I don't think these delays haven't been made to restore Batfleck, but are a result of WBD having no cash. And if that's the case, why would you even want poor old Ben back in that shit again?
Honestly I think the writing is already on the wall, even if The Flash is delayed again.
Also why would I want poor 70 years old Keaton? Affleck is in a better mind than in 2016 so why not? Look at that picture of him with Momoa on the set of Aquaman 2, he look very very good.
Time will tell.
 

FunkMiller

Banned
Thx, I'm an optimist 😁

Honestly I think the writing is already on the wall, even if The Flash is delayed again.
Also why would I want poor 70 years old Keaton? Affleck is in a better mind than in 2016 so why not? Look at that picture of him with Momoa on the set of Aquaman 2, he look very very good.
Time will tell.

Honestly dude, I'm at the point where anything feels like its going to be a disaster at this point. Even if they do decide to get Affleck back full time... what are they going to do? A solo film? Would they shit can The Batman franchise for that? They'd probably have to. Or would he just be back just in DCEU movies? In which case, what the hell are those even going to be moving forward?

I just don't see any positive way forward for DC on film without a complete reboot. It's all way too much of a mess.
 

KyoZz

Tag, you're it.
Honestly dude, I'm at the point where anything feels like its going to be a disaster at this point. Even if they do decide to get Affleck back full time... what are they going to do? A solo film? Would they shit can The Batman franchise for that? They'd probably have to. Or would he just be back just in DCEU movies? In which case, what the hell are those even going to be moving forward?

I just don't see any positive way forward for DC on film without a complete reboot. It's all way too much of a mess.
I think we can have both The Batman 2 and Batfleck solo, the ga is not stupid and can do the distinction.
Imo an ideal slate would be what they showed in 2015. That would be something incredible.
The sooner we have a slate the better, because right now it's all guesses and supposition.
Also yeah I can see Amazon getting DC.
 

FunkMiller

Banned
I think we can have both The Batman 2 and Batfleck solo, the ga is not stupid and can do the distinction.
Imo an ideal slate would be what they showed in 2015. That would be something incredible.
The sooner we have a slate the better, because right now it's all guesses and supposition.
Also yeah I can see Amazon getting DC.

If Amazon did buy it, everything goes out the window, and it’d be a hard reboot. A guiding principal of the company has always been to drop anything that isn’t proving a success with the consumer.

And it doesn’t sound like WBD even have the money to do two separate Batman franchises, even if they wanted to, which I very much doubt myself. Because why?
 

FunkMiller

Banned
Aquaman was pushed back because it needed more production time (aka they need to remove Amber)

Shazam is taking that spot so that it can have an IMAX release.

That's not what The Hollywood Reporter are saying the reasons are, and they aren't some two-bit clickbait website. If Borys Kit has that information, it's coming from someone in the know at WBD.
 

Lunarorbit

Member
That's not what The Hollywood Reporter are saying the reasons are, and they aren't some two-bit clickbait website. If Borys Kit has that information, it's coming from someone in the know at WBD.
Wbd is a mess. The hit they put out on hbo is super depressing.

How about they save some money and scale the marketing back on these movies? Do we need burger King meals with Aquaman? That shit doesn't work anymore. It's not novel to slap a superhero on cups anymore. It's a waste of money.

I'm trying to think in terms of video games.... No game is gonna come out in good shape if the studio is bought and all the upper execs leave. It creates turmoil and mixed messaging.

At this point with covid and the giant mess of continuity and Ezra Miller just release these movies. But if course they won't cause you gotta have something positive for next year's 2nd quarter.
 

Stitch

Gold Member
How can they be so broke? What movies have they released recently and they flopped?
Wonder Woman 1984, The Matrix Resurrections, Bill & Ted Face the Music, Judas and the Black Messiah, Malignant, The Many Saints of Newark, King Richard, The Suicide Squad, Cry Macho, Elvis,....
 

Stitch

Gold Member
that's not even all of them XD some of them didn't really flop, but also didn't really make a lot of money like the last fantastic beasts.
 

Star-Lord

Member
I don't understand why they don't just can whatever DC shit they have ready to roll and start over from scratch. The way things are currently running clearly isn't working for them. Hell, if I was one of the big wigs at Warner, I'd be tempted to sell the rights to DC to Amazon Prime and be done with it. We might actually get a a decent attempt at a DCEU. It won't be on par with Marvel, and more than likely never will be, but at least it could be better than the shite we have now.
 

MastaKiiLA

Member
I don't understand why they don't just can whatever DC shit they have ready to roll and start over from scratch. The way things are currently running clearly isn't working for them. Hell, if I was one of the big wigs at Warner, I'd be tempted to sell the rights to DC to Amazon Prime and be done with it. We might actually get a a decent attempt at a DCEU. It won't be on par with Marvel, and more than likely never will be, but at least it could be better than the shite we have now.
Because Batman prints money. That's why they keep going back to that well, over and over. Like every 3rd DC film will be a Batman or Batman-adjacent film, because WB can't figure out how to make any other franchise work. This is the #SnyderCurse.
 

Star-Lord

Member
Because Batman prints money. That's why they keep going back to that well, over and over. Like every 3rd DC film will be a Batman or Batman-adjacent film, because WB can't figure out how to make any other franchise work. This is the #SnyderCurse.
They can keep going back to Batman all they want, I just want a decent one. I enjoyed The Batman a lot, but I don't think we'll be seeing another Pattinson film for a while. And as for The Joker 2, well, I'm not sure how I feel about it being a goddamn fucking musical, but we'll see. But it's shit like this that proves my point. WB need to stop, drop, and roll.
 

DeafTourette

Perpetually Offended
Previous owners (AT&T) and Warner Media management spent more money than they were taking in. And funding filmmakers to make their flopping vanity projects (Cry Macho) hurt them too.

WBD is trying to right the ship. It's cheaper to cancel Batgirl and have it be a tax write-off than it would to cancel The Flash (which seems to be getting tons of good ratings in test screenings).
 

sol_bad

Member
What even is the proof that it's a financial issue for Warner?
In terms of a release schedule tactic, it was always a dumb idea to release a movie at the same time as Avatar 2. Moving Shazam to a March sloe makes sense as The Batman did well in that month and there are no other heavy hitters then. It makes logical sense to also delay Aquaman 2.

As a whole, it's pretty infuriating that there is yet another delay for these movies.
:(
 

sol_bad

Member
Wonder Woman 1984, The Matrix Resurrections, Bill & Ted Face the Music, Judas and the Black Messiah, Malignant, The Many Saints of Newark, King Richard, The Suicide Squad, Cry Macho, Elvis,....

Greenlighting these films wasn't the problem, the problem was two fold.

1: Releasing them during the COVID pandemic.
2: Releasing them simultaneously on HBO Max like a bunch of fucking morons.

Quite a few of these films did very well critically and most of them were enjoyed by audiences. WB/AT&T cut their own legs off though with the above 2 mentioned facts. If they were release outside the pandemic and theatrically only, they would have made money.
 

LordCBH

Member
I think anyone with a brain knew Shazam would be delayed. It’s suicide to release it against Avatar 2. I would choose Shazam over avatar any day of the week, but I know 99% of audiences won’t.
 

EverydayBeast

ChatGPT 0.1
Aquaman stands out because he’s apart of the justice league the best thing is to show more trailers, find a way to market the movies.
 

KyoZz

Tag, you're it.
FunkMiller FunkMiller just saw this since I'm back from work. I think it answer your question!

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fuck yeah yes GIF


Ben's coming back. It is now confirmed by Momoa himself <3 Now WBD just need to announce his solo movie




Ben Affleck Rain GIF by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice


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Lot of surprises you say??

Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers
 
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sol_bad

Member
FunkMiller FunkMiller just saw this since I'm back from work. I think it answer your question!

Fa_dyPraUAApZhq


fuck yeah yes GIF


Ben's coming back. It is now confirmed by Momoa himself <3 Now WBD just need to announce his solo movie




Ben Affleck Rain GIF by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice


unknown.png


Lot of surprises you say??

Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers


I do hope he is back.
2 Batman's is enough, we don't need 3 Batman's.
 

FunkMiller

Banned
FunkMiller FunkMiller just saw this since I'm back from work. I think it answer your question!


Ben's coming back. It is now confirmed by Momoa himself <3 Now WBD just need to announce his solo movie



Lot of surprises you say??


Pretty sure he just means the Aquaman post credits sequence, and the fact Affleck’s in The Flash, but we’ll see!
 
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SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Shocking how they are broke after launching their $200 million movies on a streaming service with free trials.

Every exec responsible for that needs to be fired and should be unemployable going forward.
 

FunkMiller

Banned
Shocking how they are broke after launching their $200 million movies on a streaming service with free trials.

Every exec responsible for that needs to be fired and should be unemployable going forward.

It's just a really good job no other movie companies waited to put their big movies out at the cinema, that have gone on to gross well over a billion dollars post pandemic.

Oh no, wait...
 
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