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Way to put words in my mouth. I’m just pointing out that you guys have a tendency to get carried away when it comes to Marvel movies. You predicted that MoM and L&T would claim the May and July records respectively, and iirc, you’re currently claiming that WF could see a $250 million OW. Maybe it will see a 20-40% increase, but you seem to be treating it as if it’s a sure thing.
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I see that @Legion By Night and @Ecks Ecks Are are already getting carried away.
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It’s so self-contradictory too. Zaslav wants to keep things cheap, but he also scoffs at the notion that WB should maintain a good working relation with a director who consistently gets films finished on time and under budget? Furthermore, how does he not realize that in Hollywood, being friends with people is actually very important? Connections are everything in the industry. Anyone who’s been involved in it can tell you that.
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Is a potential recession the next big topic you want to fixate on?
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Well, that would certainly be bold.
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A few days ago, no one would have guessed that WBD would cancel films that had already been made, but look where we are now…
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Again, if this is such a problem for Discovery, they shouldn’t have bought WB to begin with. No one forced them to do it.
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I’m really tired of people trying to defend these decisions as “just business.” If Discovery isn’t willing to take risks with the company that they bought, then they shouldn’t have bought it to begin with.
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You should care if they start dedicating their new content to crappy reality shows instead of scripted content.
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Do you have any idea how many people have been abandoning cable in the past several years? It is increasingly being seen as obsolete. This isn’t the 2000s anymore.
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How much money do you think cable is making these days?
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I’m increasingly losing hope that The Batman 2 is even happening.
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HBO is a premium cable network, and cable in general is rapidly becoming irrelevant. Streaming is the future.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Zaslav tries to make the Phillipsverse the main DC movie universe moving forward. It was already reported a while back that he wants Phillips to take on an advisory role for future DC films, despite his lack of knowledge or interest in the greater DC Universe. He probably thinks Phillips is a good candidate to be DC’s Kevin Feige.
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Disney+ actually spends money on their content. They don’t rely on cheap reality shows to draw people in. If Zaslav wants to mimic the Disney model, he’d have to put actual time and money into his company’s content, which he clearly isn’t interested in. Of course, trying to mimic Disney was always a stupid idea. It was stupid when AT&T tried it, and it’s even stupider now that Discovery is trying it.
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HBO Max was never going to be up there with something like Disney+. WB simply doesn’t have the resources to compete with the company that owns Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and The Simpsons. Zaslav is out of his mind if he thinks dropping all their scripted content is what the service needs.
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Something tells me WBD will be prioritizing this over the Reevesverse. Call it a hunch.
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Why did Discovery even buy WB in the first place?
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I have to ask; is there anyone who still honestly thinks that the Discovery merger was a good thing for WB? I tried to be optimistic about it last year when it was first announced, but now I’m convinced that it will be the death of the studio.
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Would it be too controversial at this point to say that I think WB was better off with AT&T?
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Scrapping a popular streaming service in favor of reality TV and an aging premium cable network is certainly a choice.
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Gunn’s SS not only had the misfortune of being a follow-up to widely disliked movie that was released five years earlier, but it also had pretty subpar marketing, and unlike the first movie, which banked heavily on Will Smith and the Joker, there weren’t really any big hooks it had going for it. That’s on top of the day and date release. Also, the title might not have done it many favors either.
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The first SS did well largely because of all the pre-release hype it managed to generate. It had the biggest August OW of all time, but its legs were subpar, and it quickly became a laughing stock on the Internet.
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I’m already seeing people on certain corners of Twitter who are happy about Batgirl getting canceled, solely because they think it was “woke.” These are the kinds of people Zaslav is emboldening. Honestly, I think people might have been might too hard on Bob Chapek…
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Wasn’t it reported a few weeks ago that Zaslav also wants WB movies to be shown in Russia again?
