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Damn. I guess it’s a good thing the Avatar sequels got delayed.

We’ve been over this before, but I don’t see what that has to do with my question. If WBD is really in this dire of a financial situation, then how exactly do they expect to get the funding for James Gunn’s DCU?

How exactly are they supposed to finance James Gunn’s ambitious multimedia spanning 10 year plan if they’re so broke they have to resort to selling their own assets?

Surprised no one posted this, but here ya go. Lol

If Barbie is as big a hit as the early buzz would suggest, then he sure bet on the wrong horse by going all in on Flash.

I just remembered that TMNT saw a pretty notable resurgence in the early to mid 2010s. The 2012 show was pretty big in its heyday, and the 2014 film did better than expected. Then if he whole thing just seemed to fade away after the 2016 film flopped.

Edit: Never mind. Apparently the music sale is a bigger deal than I thought.

Doing a Super Bowl ad when WB hadn’t done one of those since 2006, screening the movie at Cinemacon, telling people it was one of the greatest superhero movies ever made, getting a bunch of endorsements from celebrities and influencers (including that now infamous Tom Cruise story), and doing 50,000 advanced screenings.

People don’t usually like Jeff Bezos either, but regardless, Zaslav has yet to show any impressive results for Warner Bros. as a company. The little stunt he pulled trying to get people to see the Flash movie blew up in his face. Not a good start.

I don’t know. Most of the arguments I’ve seen against him are about how he comes off like a horribly out of touch snake oil salesman who’s actively pissing off creatives. At least, that’s why I personally don’t like him.

I will never understand the protectiveness certain people have over this guy, but whatever.

On the plus side for WB, Barbie looks like it has pretty strong momentum that isn’t artificial like with The Flash. Their Summer might not be a total loss.

What about Matthew?

It wasn’t supposed to be a theatrical release. That was reportedly why it was canned.

Fascinating timing. I have a feeling these next few days are going to be interesting.

Krypto the Superdog.

The Rock has historically been a reliable draw in China, so the fact that BA wasn’t released there was a sting for sure. It still had bigger box office numbers than any other DCEU movie released after 2018, so maybe we were being too dismissive of The Rock.

You left out the cute animal sidekick.

Hopefully if there’s one good thing to maybe come out of this, it’s that we should stop putting so much stock in reports about test screenings.

Why do I get the feeling they gave this an R-rating because they thought being PG-13 was the reason Morbius failed?

Gotta love the contrast between how the Spider-Verse movies are perceived and how Sony’s live action Marvel productions are perceived.

I’m sure Gunn had plenty of creative freedom relative to the MCU, but he still had to work within the parameters of PG-13 superhero movies that parents were expected to take their children to see. TSS and Peacemaker were him being allowed to completely indulge in his edgy preferences, and they weren’t nearly as popular as his work on GotG.

Peacemaker didn’t seem to leave that much of an impression from what I can tell. Its finale was viewed by less than 600k households over a span of four days. It was no Euphoria or House of the Dragon, that’s for sure. I would have to agree with the sentiment that Gunn hasn’t really proven himself to be a big crowd pleasing director outside of the MCU. Of course, the GotG movies are currently his only films to be PG-13, which his Superman film will also obviously be. Gunn’s style seems to resonate best when there’s a limit to what he can get away with.

Do Logan and Joker not count?