It's no secret WB/Max has been run pretty willy nilly over the last 5 years. Two name changes. Shelving finished films. Messy streaming platform layout. Renting their library to the highest bidder (including Tubi!). Zaslav has to be one of the worst studio heads out there right now, but wow, do they sure think they're doing a great job!
(https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslav-202...)Distribution : Couldn't pay to finish Batgirl or Coyote vs. Acme, but he sure paid himself a raise. Cool by Pat Alexander
Couldn't pay to finish Batgirl or Coyote vs. Acme, but he sure paid himself a raise. Cool
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I don't understand this at all, Pat Alexander. I wonder how the shareholders feel about this. Hope we get to see "Batgirl" and "Coyote vs. Acme" one day.
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Yeah, no kidding. I've been really upset about the whole Coyote vs. Acme and Batgirl scenario. I'd rather see both Coyote vs. Acme and Batgirl than many of the films being released so far this year, lol. It's completely ridiculous. Not to mention all the shows they've canceled and deleted on Max. HBO Max was sooo much better! One of my favorite platforms at the time.
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Those decisions are why he gets the pay rise.
He is not there to make movies. He is there to facilitate making money, which is done in the movie industry.
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Craig D Griffiths is right, Pat Alexander. He's not there as a Creative Executive, he's there to run a corporation which means making money and keeping shareholders happy. By making decisions like axing Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme to make more money back in the tax write-off, he upset fans and viewers, but likely made the company back more money than they would have in box-office numbers coming out of the strike when fewer people are spending money in theaters. I'm a HUGE Bat-Fam fan and was so excited for the Batgirl movie. But the reality is that he likely made the shareholders very happy with those decisions. Also, the streaming service flubs have been ridiculous, but it's a great example of what happens in the industry when someone new comes in and takes over a sandbox full of toys. HBOMax was already struggling and as the new person in charge, rebranding the service as Max was his way of trying to turn that around and make the service less focused on WB Content that he was acquiring. He wanted it seen as a space for his Discovery content that was merging in. It didn't work perfectly, but he's not the one who chose to name the streaming service HBOMax in the first place, which I always thought was a branding mistake from WB at the start. All of the streaming services are struggling currently and in some ways, Max is doing better than others.
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Yeah, Craig D Griffiths, but he's making $49.7MM while a lot of the people who come up with the ideas for the movies and shows and make them are struggling. Ridiculous.
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Couldn't agree with you more, Maurice Vaughan. It's ridiculous and gross. But it's also the sad reality of how larger studios operate. These are corporations first and creative entities second.