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Blockhouse posted:if this is true then Batgirl is just the opening move There isn't an if big enough when it comes to Grace Randolph
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Peacemaker and Diners Drive Ins and Dives on the same service? it's a bargain at twice the price (I don't know what the price is because there's no way I wouldn't use a password I borrowed from somebody getting it for free off their cable or some poo poo)
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Aug 3, 2022 00:12
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In awe of these “Business” “decisions” of all these companies Lol
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Aug 3, 2022 00:12
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WB just announced they are cancelling the Scooby Doo sequel they already finished, spent $40 million on, and sending it to the vault with Batgirl too. Sounds like someone just woke up and decided to cancel all their already completed projects. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/scoob-sequel-warner-bros-discovery-shelved-hbo-max/
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Aug 3, 2022 00:14
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howe_sam posted:There isn't an if big enough when it comes to Grace Randolph Oh yeah she's not very good when it comes to scoops They just flushed 130 million down the toilet. For no reason. Like I can't even come up with any good reasons to not put the films out and at least try and recoup some of that Codependent Poster fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Aug 3, 2022 00:15
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Arist posted:The people running this poo poo are loving idiots, so I believe it. Been hearing rumors that Discovery is gonna basically kill off Adult Swim and turn it into a dedicated rerun block, to add to the list of baffling decisions.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:15
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I do feel bad for anyone that liked a thing or was looking forward to a thing and now it all being thrown into a dumpster. But also loving  at all of this.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:16
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:WB just announced they are cancelling the Scooby Doo sequel they already finished, spent $40 million on, and sending it to the vault with Batgirl too.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:19
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STAC Goat posted:I currently have Discovery+ because it was 99 cents and I figured why not? And yeah there’s nothing. FlamingLiberal posted:They do understand that it takes a long time to just start over with content, right?
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Aug 3, 2022 00:19
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Streamlining expensive and risky scripted shows when your new company is heavily in debt makes sense. The Batgirl thing is a massive loss of money, but could be somewhat reasonable if they really thought it would damage their DC cash cow brand. But, burning $40 million on a Scooby Doo movie and then putting it in the vault to never be released after it is already finished makes no sense at all.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:WB just announced they are cancelling the Scooby Doo sequel they already finished, spent $40 million on, and sending it to the vault with Batgirl too. Another finished film!? This is beginning to feel like the new guy is deliberately loving with the decisions of the previous out of spite. There's absolutely no reason not to release a finished animated film. It's Scooby Doo, they release a million of them DTV anyway.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:20
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Not releasing a 90 million Batgirl movie because you're worried it will sour audiences and make future DC movies lose >90 million is a somewhat defensible business decision. ...but then to do the same thing with Scooby Doo which doesn't really have that franchise issue? Very strange day.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:30
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It feels kind of like the Goofus version of when Lasseter (before he was outed as being a creeper) took over Disney animation: He scrapped a bunch of DTV projects, but not ones that were decently along in production and the ones that were, did come out, he just refocused the division with a back to basics approach that's paid off. This just seems like, as I said in another thread, that scene from TDK with the Joker burning the money, except this dude doesn't get that the 'just my half' bit is a joke.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:35
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I don’t even understand where this movie fit in. It was using Snyderverse Gordon but Keaton Batman? Huh?
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Aug 3, 2022 00:36
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Presumably Keaton Batman was a result of Flashpoint shenanigans that we'll never actually see.
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Maybe the new CEO is a big Pat Hingle fan and couldn't stand for the erasure.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:41
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wth happened with MCU Phase 4? Last month I started getting into the MCU and it was great... until Phase 4. Loki and Dr Strange Multiverse were amazing, but everything else ranged from mediocre to doggy dogshit.
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Orc Priest posted:wth happened with MCU Phase 4? Last month I started getting into the MCU and it was great... until Phase 4. Loki and Dr Strange Multiverse were amazing, but everything else ranged from mediocre to doggy dogshit. You watched the whole Infinity Saga in a month?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:WB just announced they are cancelling the Scooby Doo sequel they already finished, spent $40 million on, and sending it to the vault with Batgirl too. Literally just throwing money away, for no benefit. Can't even justify it by saying it'll dilute another brand. Amazing. Orc Priest posted:wth happened with MCU Phase 4? Last month I started getting into the MCU and it was great... until Phase 4. Loki and Dr Strange Multiverse were amazing, but everything else ranged from mediocre to doggy dogshit. A bunch of Marvel's big tentpole actors wanted to retire after Phase 3, so they planned to spend some time introducing some new characters. Then COVID hit, loving up basically every aspect of the film industry. I've liked the last three I saw (Spiderman, MoM, Thor) so I personally feel like they've worked out the kinks, but I wouldn't blame anyone for disagreeing. I'm still baffled by Black Widow to this day. Random Asshole fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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omg chael crash posted:I don’t even understand where this movie fit in.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:50
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It's hard for me to believe Batgirl was pulled because of quality. I've seen some of the other DC movies like Wonder Woman 2 and Suicide Squad.
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Aug 3, 2022 00:55
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X-O posted:It's hard for me to believe Batgirl was pulled because of quality. I've seen some of the other DC movies like Wonder Woman 2 and Suicide Squad. It wasn't that the quality was bad, but that it was too good.
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StumblyWumbly posted:What's going to happen to Peacekeeper you guys? no idea but any DC project that isn’t a $200m theatrical release has to least potentially be on the chopping block
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Aug 3, 2022 00:58
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They better not hurt my Doom Patrol
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live with fruit posted:You watched the whole Infinity Saga in a month? That's not even one movie a night. A marathon, but doable.
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Aug 3, 2022 01:04
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Man HBOMax was the best streaming service ever for the two years it existed. What a shame. Discovery is just stripping this legendary company for parts. It’s awful to see.
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Aug 3, 2022 01:04
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Doom Patrol and Titans are probably toast. Peacemaker will probably get a reprieve because of James Gunn.
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gunn allegedly had three projects going at max so i bet he's sweating bullets right now
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Last I heard Titans was actually filming their next season so that will probably happen. Doom Patrol? Who knows.
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muscles like this! posted:Last I heard Titans was actually filming their next season so that will probably happen. Doom Patrol? Who knows. It filming is no guarantee.
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it's insanely funny that the entire TCM catalogue will probably end up on a Discovery Plus tab next to twenty-two seasons of Sister Wives and Next Food Network Star.
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X-O posted:It's hard for me to believe Batgirl was pulled because of quality. I've seen some of the other DC movies like Wonder Woman 2 and Suicide Squad. When it was just Batgirl I thought it was the Cartmanland school of advertising ("The movie so bad, you aren't allowed to see it!"), but yeah, basically Discovery wildly overreached buying Warner and now can't really afford to do anything with the properties they just bought, and the same big brain who made that decision is now just throwing money down the drain for reasons unknown but almost certainly unrelated to the actual film's quality. It's cool that so many beloved media franchises are now in the hands of such an idiot, after the various Justice League debacles I really thought they'd hit the bottom of the barrel in terms of management competence. Very exciting they found someone even stupider!
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Karma Tornado posted:it's insanely funny that the entire TCM catalogue will probably end up on a Discovery Plus tab next to twenty-two seasons of Sister Wives and Next Food Network Star. I mean, to be fair, it is just branding. You are actually getting more content by merging them into a single subscription. Cutting the original scripted programming wasn't a result of a plan to merge the two streaming services. They did it across all of their TV and streaming networks.
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Karma Tornado posted:it's insanely funny that the entire TCM catalogue will probably end up on a Discovery Plus tab next to twenty-two seasons of Sister Wives and Next Food Network Star. They don't even have the Guy Fieri season (Next Food Network Star I mean, not Sister Wives).
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That being said, I don't know why anyone who is a shareholder there would keep investing in them. Their stock is down 38% since they debuted on the exchange after the merger and they are apparently considering just burning a quarter of a billion dollars in shareholder money because ???
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I mean, to be fair, it is just branding. You are actually getting more content by merging them into a single subscription. there's more terrible content in one place, sure, but they're going to make more money off of people forgetting they had two different subscriptions going than one. Discovery Plus very probably made more off people who never canceled after getting it as a Verizon promo for a year than they do from earnest Dr Zit Exploder or Tragic Overweight Siblings superfans subbing up to get this week's carnival sideshow attraction eight hours early. I fully understand that they like to tell shareholders about big content hour numbers like anybody is really shelling out for Say Yes To The Dress Canada, though.
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site posted:gunn allegedly had three projects going at max so i bet he's sweating bullets right now I think Gunn will be fine. Marvel would probably let him keep making content for them as long as he wanted. It would suck for all the actors and crew though
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Aug 3, 2022 01:33
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So if I haven't watched the recent animated Harley Quinn show, which Goons said was good, I am now SOL?
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MH Knights posted:So if I haven't watched the recent animated Harley Quinn show, which Goons said was good, I am now SOL? I don't think they are scrubbing it from the internet entirely or destroying all copies of it. It might only get one more season, though.
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Codependent Poster posted:I think Gunn will be fine. Marvel would probably let him keep making content for them as long as he wanted. i sorry i didn't mean his income, i meant like waiting to see if one or all of the things you have in pre production is getting the axe probably sucks
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