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Just now, Jonwo said:
all we have to do is wait for it to happen. Watch and witness
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1 minute ago, Jonwo said:
Unless you have a crystal ball then you cannot say it will fail.
Cutting back doesn't mean going all in on unscripted. The way people go on you'd think WBD was going to axe anything scripted which isn't the case.
I don’t need a crystal ball. It will fail.
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1 minute ago, dudalb said:
If you are right, Which is putting all the eggs in one basket...maybe not a good move.
Warners is in trouble because previsou management greenlit projects that shuld not have been greenlit. Zslev was brought in to correct that. Of course there is a danger he could go too far. But whatever previous management was doing, it was not working.
I would not be surprised if other studios begin to retrench and cut costs. That a recession seems to be on it's way will just add to that.
Truthfully it’s a pretty low risk basket. Discovery content is cheap and relatively profitable. But you’re right a lot of Warner projects for the last 10-15 years have been indulgent artistic projects that are not good investments that very few people end up caring about. I’m guessing the days of Warner handing out cash for those movies is done.
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2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:
I think they're aiming to replicate Disney's fewer, bigger, better strategy with the focus on having three divisions consisting of WB/New Line, DC and Warner Animation.
I wonder what’s gonna happen 5 years from now when that fails.
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Just now, Jonwo said:
They're not going to get rid of the Warner side, that's just stupid.
it’s a good thing I never said that then.
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After paying down debt, Zaslav is going to use Warner cash flow to expand Discovery’s content and either cut down Warner to the bare essentials or at the very least never expand beyond what it currently is. HBO max overseas has been halted, Originals slashed, TNT/TBS programming cut, CNN+ shut down immediately…anything on the Warner side that requires an investment to expand is gone. All of that goes to discovery.
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1 hour ago, TwoMisfits said:
The rumor is DiscoveryPlus will now be the lead, and HBOMax will merge into it, and be a new HBO streaming service. So, most of the HBOMax folks would be eliminated as scripted programs move to HBO and Discovery manages all the "just for the streaming service" stuff...
It's definitely a Chapek type move - looking at the worldwide economy and the coming energy disaster in Europe and deciding streaming services might be 1st to go, so time to go really lean and get the price lower (or at least not rising)...
I’m not really seeing how this is a Chapek move at all. Chapek has done nothing but expand outside the classic Disney brands. In fact that’s what he and Iger were at odds about originally. He’s pushed Hulu, Star, FX to the moon.
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1 hour ago, Potiki said:
@HouseOfTheSun was right!
Damn Mr. Unscripted (Zaslav) making quick work of destroying Warner, who would have thought AT&T would be the more competent parent company.
I just hope the destruction is so quick that they sell Warner again within the next couple of years if this drags out I fell it will be painful to watch a once great company completely hollowed out.
Although Warner has already been through a handful of different owners in the last couple of decades and all have failed so maybe they will end up selling piecemeal (HBO, Warner, DC, Gaming etc.) as it is possible no one will want the full entity.
This is next level even for me lol.
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12 minutes ago, Legion and Thunder said:
2/7 phase 4 movies were related to the multiverse
2/8 shows
what kind of “mostly” is that?
Someone watching way too many crappy YouTube theory videos is what that is lol
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1 hour ago, WorkingonaName said:
I miss when we only had 3 movies a year
there’s nothing stopping you from watching only 3 a year.
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11 minutes ago, Ecks Ecks Are said:
I noticed that also. Seems to be the case, since they filled everything through May 2024 (minus the Feb 2024 movie) and it's still not slated.
I thought I read something about armor wars stuff being written into iron heart a while back.
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5 hours ago, dudalb said:
But CHapek has already gotten a lot of the creatives mad.
I would bet that Chapek is going to be a disaster for Disney.
For not other reason then he seems to want to surround himself with Yes Men and sycophants, and that is the worst move any Executive can make.
I don’t think he should remain CEO. He’s just not the guy. I think the reigns will be handed over sooner or later. Maybe someone like Staggs or Mayer returns, heck even Rice himself, Sarandos. Perhaps even Walden, Daniel, or D’Amarro will get a very quick ascent to the top.
in fact I actually don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that privately the board has told him he’s not returning. He answers to the the chairman at the end of the day. I think it’s possible the Board wants Dana Walden as the next CEO and that Rice needed to go for her pathway to be clear.
Walden and Rice had been together for a very long time. To see that she’s inheriting his position and not leaving with him is surprising to me. I think she’s the best bet for who Chapek is replaced by.-
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8 hours ago, dudalb said:
CHapek has proved a remarkable talent for messng up, though.
And if there is a "Brain Drain" on Disney...talented people deciding they have had enough of Chaperk and heading elsewhere.....it would be a disaster for Disney.
Real showdown will be if Feige and Chapek start feuding.
I can't see how somebody who has made as many enemies at Disney as Chapek has can survive long term.
Board of Directors are notoriously slow to admit they made a mistake in choosing a CEO; which is why Chapek has some support there. But if things go south at Disney,,,and Disney is long overdue for some real turbulence....CHapek will be out.
C suite executives have left. Creatives have not.
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That’s a jarring headline to read but if it is true that it’s an open secret that he was angling for the job and that he initially threw himself into the mix for the Warner job, Chapek has pretty clear grounds to fire him without ceremony…regardless of what people will say. Walden is more than enough to fill the shoes.
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I could see Bisha Ali be the lead writer F4 after this.
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31 minutes ago, wildphantom said:
It’ll be a timely lesson to those that should know better in what happens when you leave a hit exclusively in cinemas for months.The difference between 999,999,999 and a billion is a dollar.
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And now back to the regularly scheduled issue of Johnny Depp being a shit tier actor.
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4 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:
Hate when people just straight up lie to me on here.
I’ll go even further. She was a detriment to the movie and it was great in spite of her.
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6 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:
this sounds good. interesting premise, good director (though i didn't like the mr rogers movie). AA's first good movie since... arrival?
Which she did nothing to contribute to.
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7 minutes ago, grim22 said:
This is actually not a bad edict
35M is still a good chunk of change, and can work to get lesser seen genres on screen. Romcoms, straight romances, legal thrillers, basically the 90s.
Slashing HBO Max’s original budget, likely hamstringing true HBO budget. Lol that cash Warner generates is going straight into Discovery’s reality side to push more production.
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32 minutes ago, grim22 said:
Yeah, that made no sense. Like if you cut ties with Clint Eastwood after he delivers back to back bombs Hereafter, J Edgar and Jersey Boys, you miss out on the 4 back to back movies which made money in American Sniper, Sully, The Mule and 15:17 To Paris (which had a low enough budget that it ended up making money for them).
Now he has delivered Richard Jewell and Cry Macho (which admittedly had other mitigating circumstances around it), but what is to say that another The Mule or Sully isn't around the corner.
The irony is that J Edgar and Jersey Boys are exactly the types of movies you would greenlight based on this thinking but The Mule and American Sniper less so. The first 2 have big stars and/or are musicals which normally did well, the second two feel like they have big stars in hindsight but American Sniper somewhat made Bradley Cooper into the star he is now. And without American Sniper, you don't get A Star Is Born because Cooper guiding Sniper's post-production was what gave WB enough confidence in him directing as well.
It's all linked in the end instead of looking at things as one movie stand-alone.
Clint Eastwood is also beyond geriatric and Sully which was his last real hit was 6 years ago now.
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6 hours ago, dudalb said:
If is confusing if you have not seen Wandavision, that could hurt it. People don't like to be confused.
…? Wouldn’t that be the case everywhere then? It’s getting good to great reception everywhere
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Top Gun is gonna do what American Sniper did and everyone on these boards are going to be confused as to what went wrong with their predictions. This shits gonna be Boomer Endgame.
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The Warner Bros. Thread | Will NOT merge with Paramount...capitalism is still terrible
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What’s actually hilarious is that Zaslav probably saw the ridiculous sum Warner gave Snyder to make his version of the movie and nearly busted an aneurysm.