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What an absolutely stupid merger this was

It's incredibly when you think comic book movies has reached an impenetrable low point, Sony is always there to defy your expectations.

Is 450 or 500 million possible?

Modern use of public domain is akin to artistic vandalism. I'm in favor of permenant copyright ownership

I died laughing at the post credit scene. I could think of no more appro way to end this universe. What a heaping pile of dogshit the DCEU has been, hopefully Superman Legacy is good.

It literally just occurred to me that this movie comes out in 4 days. I watch NFL and CFB every single week, they've advertised the movie, and it never even hit me.

I'm just looking back on The Flash, Daley and Goldsmith were hired in January of 2018 with an intial release date of 2020. Had they stuck with the timeline, they probably could have had filming start in March of 2019 and released it in like January or February of 2020, before Covid. Unfortunately, Ezra's oh-so memorable role of Credence Barebone in the box office juggernaut franchise that is Fantastic Beasts conflicted with the filming. So, rather than recast Ezra in FB or preferably in the Flash, it was imperative to have him in both movies. So they kept Ezra in both of them and moved the movie back to 2021. Then Ezra decides to go AWOL and starting pitching his own script causing Daley and Goldstein to walk away from the project and delay the project once again./ Had they just recast Ezra in October of 2018 in either Fantastic Beasts or the Flash, they could have had the movie out before Covid, before Superhero fatigue, before the likes of WW84 and Black Adam, soured the market on DC movies in particular, for much much cheaper (Daley and Goldstein's script was much simpler than what the Flash eventually became), and, most importantly, turned a profit. If the Daley and Goldstein Flash cost 120-150 million, even if it released to the same mixed reception that the 2023 Flash released to, it could have done like 500-600 million worldwide in the 2020 market.

Apparently Corenswet has a giant dong, so there is that.

Are we in the dark ages of Hollywood?

Based on rumors, it's only 3 members of the Authority.

The reality is that we're gonna see a lot of change in studios going forward. The days of cheap money are gone and the likes of Paramount and WB are likely to be sold.

The figure that is often sighted as "Zalsav's salary" was a 1 year anomaly in 2021 due to a $200 million stock option grant due to closing the merger. it wasn't 200+ million in cash. His cash salary was about $20 million His 2022 salary was $39 million total with just $3.1 million in salary and the rest in stock and non-equity grants. That's in line with the average Hollywood Big 4 CEO.

It's not about the CEO, for me at least, it's about the debt that WB has accrued and the measures that they are forced to take to pay it down. I actually understand and agree with Zaslav's moves, that doesn't mean I like it.

We are about 2 steps away from WB going full Jack Warner and selling their pre-1980s film library. All joking aside, as weird as it is to have a "favorite" multi-media conglomerate, WB is the studio that has provided me with much of my favorite films and TV shows and they have a bevy of IPs I love and they are just going out sad.