Warner/Discovery

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Yikes.

This company is never going to be stable, is it?

Each sale or take over comes with Execs, that have different ideas on how the company should be ran. It backfires and wash rinse repeat. The wholesale change overs are not healthy for the business. This is probably why Murdoch bailed on FOX.

[Lee A Stewart]

The Dish: What’s Behind The ‘Batgirl’ & ‘Scoob!’ Discard? David Zaslav’s Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar’s HBO Max Strategy

https://deadline.com/2022/08/batgirl...gy-1235084032/

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

The Dish: What’s Behind The ‘Batgirl’ & ‘Scoob!’ Discard? David Zaslav’s Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar’s HBO Max Strategy

https://deadline.com/2022/08/batgirl...gy-1235084032/

This all seems like thy have little faith in HBOMax and it's slow growth. Will they kill it and just go with HBO?

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by mwynn

This all seems like thy have little faith in HBOMax and it's slow growth. Will they kill it and just go with HBO?

Maybe they will rebrand it and call it HBO+

[50strat54]

So much fun today.

Given what a$$holes Disney are isn't it great that at the very least they have their house in order?

Yes most Fox Catalog blurays will now go into the black hole but Disney+ is working well for them and the Disney/Fox Merger was done without a lot of drama. This is the way a business should be run. Disney allowed most of the Fox films like Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants to be released the catalog Fox 4Ks ready to be released were not cancelled. Small miracles.

I do wish Disney would stay out of politics but it's their ball so they can say whatever they want.

Even with the failure of Lightyear and West Side Story, they still have more successes than failures.

[captveg]

Disney canceled 200+ projects that were being developed / in production at Fox/Searchlight/Blue Sky.

Yep, no drama at all...

[Farerb]

Originally Posted by captveg

Disney canceled 200+ projects that were being developed / in production at Fox/Searchlight/Blue Sky.

Yep, no drama at all...

Do you know which projects got cancelled at Fox / Searchlight /Blue Sky? The only one I remember is Nimona and Disney at least sold it to Netflix instead if shelving it for Tax write down.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Farerb

Do you know which projects got cancelled at Fox / Searchlight /Blue Sky? The only one I remember is Nimona and Disney at least sold it to Netflix instead if shelving it for Tax write down.

https://imgur.com/a/dKxcoRv

Some context
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comm...he_former_fox/

Some of these got repurposed or found life with different distributors. Point is that mergers are chaos for productions. It's a bit unusual for projects that are in post-production to be shelved, but not unprecedented.

WB would never sell off Batgirl and SCOOB to other distributors because they are part of IP they don't license out. That's a key difference between those projects and Nimona. (Also, Disney didn't sell Nimona to Netflix; Disney canceled the project, and the producer team of the film were essentially free agents able to sell their product to another studio, which they did, though it took nearly two years.)

Maybe if WBD sells DC the Batgirl film could see the light of day, but that seems highly unlikely.

[Poya]

Originally Posted by captveg

Disney canceled 200+ projects that were being developed / in production at Fox/Searchlight/Blue Sky.

Yep, no drama at all...

Remember Ice Age? Y'know, the series that answered the question "What if Shrek but in prehistoric times?"

[Lum]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Yikes.

This company is never going to be stable, is it?

The twists and turns are epic. Warner in its various forms has ventured into business fields from theme parks (Six Flags), TV service (Time Warner Cable), to game consoles (Atari).

[mwynn]

Warner Bros. Discovery Reports 92.1M Combined Streaming Subscribers In First Full Earnings Since Merger
The company is on a mission to find billions of dollars in cost savings.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...gs-1235192127/

For the first time since WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc. merged earlier this year, the combined Warner Bros. Discovery reported full quarterly earnings, outlining its plan to fully integrate the two companies, and find billions of dollars in cost savings along the way.

But of course it’s streaming that remains top of mind for Wall Street, and WBD opted to combine all of its direct-to-consumer subscribers into one number for the quarter, disclosing a total DTC subscriber base of 92.1 million, inclusive of HBO Max and Discovery+. WarnerMedia had reported 76.8 million subscribers to HBO or HBO Max last quarter, with Discovery reporting 24 million DTC subscribers, suggesting that the total number of subscribers fell from Q1 to Q2.

[mwynn]

dcomics.com no longer exists now resolves to https://www.dc.com

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by mwynn

dcomics.com no longer exists now resolves to https://www.dc.com

Like Marvel.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by captveg

Disney canceled 200+ projects that were being developed / in production at Fox/Searchlight/Blue Sky.

Yep, no drama at all...

It wasn’t big news about Disney Fox merger in terms of drama.

Two radio talk shows discussed Batgirl today…Big News.

Disney didn’t cancel New Mutants or any project nearly complete.

Disney handled the merger well. In any merger people lose jobs, mostly at the company (Fox) that gets swallowed up.

[oneway23]

They never seem to break those specific HBO Max subscriber numbers out, do they?

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by oneway23

They never seem to break those specific HBO Max subscriber numbers out, do they?

They stopped reporting them separately a while ago.

[ben6543]

Matt Ramos
@therealsupes
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David Zaslav is currently making it very clear that WBD is more focused on quality over quantity than anything else. #WarnerBrosDiscovery


Matt Ramos
@therealsupes
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Zaslav confirms plans to combine HBO Max & Discovery+ into one streaming platform. #WarnerBrosDiscovery

Matt Ramos
@therealsupes
There will also be a free version of the service that is supported with ads.

Matt Ramos
@therealsupes
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David Zaslav confirms that WBD is fully committed to the theatrical experience & mentioned movies like The Batman & Elvis. #WarnerBrosDiscovery

[mwynn]

Warner Bros. Discovery Sees Q2 Loss on Content Expenses, Merger Costs

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/war...ng-1235333738/

[mwynn]

Warner Bros. Discovery previously said it expects to slash $3 billion worth of costs over the next two years, and distribute those savings into streaming content.

[mwynn]

There's good news and bad news for fans of The CW's Superman & Lois series. The good news is that the series is returning for a third season, making it one of the few DC shows on the network not to be given the ax. The bad news is that the series has had its connections to the Arrowverse severed. Despite minor crossovers with Arrow and Supergirl over the course of the first two seasons, Superman & Lois is now being treated as a completely standalone project, set on an Earth where Tyler Hoechlin's Superman is the only costumed hero.

Showrunner Todd Helbing indicated this choice was mandated by DC, telling Looper, "Part of how this all folds in the big picture with DC is ultimately a DC decision. I'm sure there'll be more clarity in the future, but as of now, we're a different Earth in the DC Universe."