The Warner Bros. Thread | Will NOT merge with Paramount...capitalism is still terrible

[ZattMurdock]

Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Black Telephone) just retweeted this:

 

 

[WittyUsername]

17 hours ago, ZattMurdock said:

Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Black Telephone) just retweeted this:

 

 

Did they seriously pull the article for being critical of a CEO?

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

We’ve had 4 live action Batman characters (Bale, Affleck, Pattinson, Keaton) within the last 11 years. Adding a fourth sounds like overkill. 

[excel1]

8 minutes ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:

We’ve had 4 live action Batman characters (Bale, Affleck, Pattinson, Keaton) within the last 11 years. Adding a fourth sounds like overkill. 

 

I mean nobody saw Keaton lol. but what are you referring to

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

16 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

I mean nobody saw Keaton lol. but what are you referring to

Brave and The Bold

[Belakor]

And on top of that the DCU Batman that Gunn is teasing. What a mess lmao.

 

 

[Potiki]

6 hours ago, WittyUsername said:

Did they seriously pull the article for being critical of a CEO?

The company that publishes GQ (Condé Nast) is also owned by a company (Advance Publications) that seems to have an 8% share in WBD. At least that seems to be the likely culprit of the quick retraction. 

 

Wikipedia page of Advance Publications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

[WittyUsername]

1 hour ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:

We’ve had 4 live action Batman characters (Bale, Affleck, Pattinson, Keaton) within the last 11 years. Adding a fourth sounds like overkill. 

It is overkill. Having competing Batman film series is uncharted territory that runs the risk of creating brand confusion, not to mention potentially dividing the fanbase further. Even the old regime at WB came to see that as a bad idea, which was why George Miller’s Justice League film was ultimately canceled.  
 

That’s not even getting into the fact that we also have the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movies. 

[dudalb]

Washington Post did an article today on how Zaslev managed to unite almost all of Hollywood..including other studio execs..against him with his moves on Turner CLassic Movies.

[Cappoedameron]

 

[Porthos]

On 7/3/2023 at 7:29 PM, ZattMurdock said:

Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Black Telephone) just retweeted this:

 

 

 

It's reappeared...

 

In redacted form...

 

And NOTon GQ:

 

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Exclusive: The Mysterious Disappearance from GQ Magazine Website of Controversial Warner Discovery Chief David Zaslav Profile

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by Roger Friedman - July 4, 2023 6:58 pm

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It’s a case of a missing profile.

 

In the last two days, New York Times Culture writer Jason Bailey published a profile of controversial Warner Discovery owner David Zaslav. The story appeared on gq.com and was titled “How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood.” The story was a pretty complete recitation of Zaslav’s issues with Hollywood including the current scandal at TCM, and didn’t even include his CNN problems.

 

But now the piece is gone. It’s been wiped clean from the GQ website. Vanished into thin air. A revised piece, 500 words shorter, has taken its place but not on the GQ website. This is the version that went out to aggregators like Yahoo News. If you Google Jason Bailey and Zaslav, the result is dead links to GQ.com and to other sites that linked to the original version.

 

Where did it go? And why? All of that remains unclear. The revised, shorter version is different than the original in that it cuts back to just the facts, ma’am. Bailey’s colorful thoughts about Zaslav being like the Richard Gere character in “Pretty Woman” — he tells Julia Roberts he buys companies to sell off their parts– are gone. There’s also now no mention of the party Zaslav threw in Cannes with Graydon Carter for Warner Bros’ 100th anniversary, or breaking news that he’s trying to sell 50% of the rights to Warner Bros. soundtracks that include songs like “As Time Goes By,” the studio’s signature piece of music.

 

If anyone knows what happened here, do email me at showbiz411@gmail.com. And meantime, here’s a link to the original story. https://archive.ph/2023.07.03-160323/https://www.gq.com/story/david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-ceo-tcm-max

 

[ZattMurdock]

20 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

It's reappeared...

 

In redacted form...

 

And NOTon GQ:

 

 

 

[abracadabra1998]

21 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

It's reappeared...

 

In redacted form...

 

And NOTon GQ:

 

 

They’re gonna make a movie or a mini-series about this in 10 years lol. Insane

[JWR]

This is reaching Bob Chapek levels of stupidity. 

[ZattMurdock]

9 minutes ago, JWR said:

This is reaching Bob Chapek levels of stupidity. 

Chapek never got close to this. This idiot was actually the reason why Chapek didn’t look that bad. Glad he is gone, cannot wait until WB actually find a home instead of being sold for parts.

[grim22]

51 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

It's reappeared...

 

In redacted form...

 

And NOTon GQ:

 

 

Zaslav has never heard of the Streisand effect.

[WittyUsername]

I wish the board of directors would just give him the boot already. 

[Cappoedameron]

 

somebody save DC from WB please!

 

[WittyUsername]

20 minutes ago, Cappoedameron said:

 

somebody save DC from WB please!

 

What the hell is the point of this? They might as well not even bother having Batman in the DCU then. 

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

1 hour ago, Cappoedameron said:

 

somebody save DC from WB please!

 

I'm guessing we might get solo movies for villains in the Reeves universe like Joker, but in the Battinson continuity.