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Soonmot posted:because that person made the mistake of reading the replies to the tweet It’s a thread, you kind of have to. Then the very first reply is one of them.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I don't know if it is an intentional thing or not, but given how badly WB/D burned executives, talent, and production staff, you are going to have tons of people who are giving these kinds of stories and interviews with claims like this. I hate to agree with Leon, but this appears to be the case from the article posted. A lot of the story comes from people fired for having now redundant positions and of course the company being bought is the one to receive staffing cuts. This is how mergers work. From the article: quote:The layoffs have “amplified the lack of diversity at HBO,” another former executive told The Daily Beast. “HBO is the most homogenous part of this umbrella. Instead of trying to figure out how to integrate some of the [Max] executives into HBO, they just made this sweeping cut of three divisions: kids, family, and international. A lot of Black and brown people lost their jobs.” The article even points out that the only part of HBO that was diverse was the Max part. Which again was now redundant with discovery having its own platform and creative whatever.
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Have there already been a lot of jokes about Zaslav trying to return WB to AT&T and claiming it was broken when they got it?
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Vintersorg posted:Can you read? Where did I say they are fake? It's some assholes out there who make up a small minority of the fanbase. How many loving times does this thread have to be told not to judge an entire fandom based on a few assholes. Why do you always go to bat for snyderbros so loving hard my dude, and why do you seem to always take it so personally
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It's pretty funny that if they had just released the movie it probably wouldn't have set the world on fire, but still would have made some money. It also would have scored some PR points with how the main lead and the directors are all POC. Now they're losing more money and the publicity is getting worse and worse. They pretty much deserve it, too.
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My uncle at WB said the movie melts your face like the ark of the covenant.
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Addendum to the previous post reiterating the Snyderchat ban: if someone engages in Snyderchat, just keep calm and carry on. I don't want to cause too much collateral damage by probing people responding to Snyderchat, but the alternative is a Snyderchat feedback loop that keeps going and going, which is also not desirable. -- On the topic of the Batgirl cancellation, I find the decision to shelve it weirder and weirder with every passing day. Like Codependent Poster said, I can't imagine a scenario in which a Batgirl film doesn't make at least a small profit even if it really is a tyre fire of a film. Earlier in this thread someone suggested that the cancellation had as much to do with the quality of the film as it does with racism on the part of the new Discovery leadership. People dismissed that at the time, but the more we hear about the current state of affairs at Discovery the more plausible it seems. Either way, it's a real shame.
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He's not gonna be DC's Kevin Feige. What they don't get is that Feige first and foremost was a giant Marvel comics nerd. The success came because of that, not because Feige had been in charge of big projects before.
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"His role in the creative direction of the live action Aladdin brought him to this spot" kind of sounds like a they are punishing him out of context.
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Glad they finally found a Feige in Feige is extremely talented and there shouldn't be any doubt about that, but he also has the authority to use that talent to improve movies and make them cohere to some central ideas about Marvel and the characters. Will Lin have any authority while trying to manage a burning house?
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StumblyWumbly posted:Glad they finally found a Feige in That is the real trick. Disney for all its faults has the sense to leave Feige alone and let him do his thing. WB-D doesn't seem so sensible.
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Wasn't the story that Feige threatened to quit unless he didn't have to deal with Perlmutter anymore? I thought it was something like that.
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Isn't it kind of calling your shot early? Like, I've never been a PR exec but I'd wait until the guy's produced at least one big success before you're like "This is the guy who's gonna lead us for the next 20 years!
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When I was a kid in the 90’s, I called DC the WCW to Marvel’s WWF. I never expected DC to become 99 WCW.
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I got interested and looked up what Dan Lin did before this and it's just a hodgepodge of projects. Compared that to Kevin Feige who's credits are literally just every loving Marvel movie pre MCU. Not that I think Lin is going to fail or that he's bad at his job but the difference is stark. Feige has absolutely lived in comic movies his whole career. Lin's career is all over the place without a single comic movie in the list. Again, I wish Lin luck but this feels like this is just another name for the meat grinder. I'd ask how they're so bad at this but it's hard getting any traction when your parent company is being sold every two years and the new buyer obviously demands immediate results. FlamingLiberal posted:Wasn't the story that Feige threatened to quit unless he didn't have to deal with Perlmutter anymore? I thought it was something like that. Yeah, they had to split into Marvel Movies and Marvel TV to keep him around and relegated Perlmutter to TV. I think once Trump was elected and Perlmutter had his attention diverted, Feige made the move to tie them both back together and totally kick Perlmutter out of the whole process.
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Who is/was in charge of the CWverse? gently caress it, put that person in charge of the DCEU. Most of the CW shows were well-liked for at least a season or two, and they managed to tie them together pretty neatly. Couldn't hurt giving them the reins.
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Open Marriage Night posted:When I was a kid in the 90’s, I called DC the WCW to Marvel’s WWF. I never expected DC to become 99 WCW. Oof thats harsh
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Vandar posted:Who is/was in charge of the CWverse? gently caress it, put that person in charge of the DCEU. That is Greg Berlanti who broke some record a couple years ago of producer with the most projects on air at once or something like that.
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RevKrule posted:I got interested and looked up what Dan Lin did before this and it's just a hodgepodge of projects. Compared that to Kevin Feige who's credits are literally just every loving Marvel movie pre MCU. Are they good movies though? I think a healthy respect and love for the source material really helps in adapting these stories to screen, a 1 to 1 translation just won't work. Having someone who can keep the heart of the stories and characters in tact while making them work in a new medium is important. But even someone who isn't a comic fan, but knows how to make good movies could do a decent job. It might be another way to keep the DCEU from just being a ripoff of the MCU. I really do want the two franchises to be different. I want to like them both, but if DC is just more Marvel, except with characters I don't have decades of history with, meh.
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1563195318060978178?t=HITVBS9gxEODdzkr8Ajfqw&s=19 Tweet is underselling his most important credit: He was the lead director of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for 10 years. Kind of an out of left field pick. Especially since they originally went with John Watts. He's got an enormous amount of credits and decades of experience on big shows like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and Fargo. But, he's never directed a movie before. He's also apparently directing the next Star Trek sequel, so I guess Fantastic 4 will technically be the second movie he ever directed.
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Given the kind of shows he's worked on the last 10 years, does the lack of theatrical experience really matter that much? Hell, Ridley Scott did bread adverts and David Fincher did music videos before 'graduating' to cinema releases, as did a host of others. Compared to that, this guy seems relatively well placed.
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It's amazing considering the number of times people have fan-casted the IASIP foursome for the FF.
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Shakman feels very Russo Bros, but in a good way. He knows comedy, he knows ensemble casts and he know serialized storytelling.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Shakman’s a fantastic tv director, so I’m excited. I have honestly not heard of him until today. Does he have a signature style? What distinguishes him as a fantastic TV director? I feel like it can be hard to predict someone's style when they have a career like him. He has a ton of huge credits, but when you come in and do 6 episodes of Game of Thrones or 4 episodes of Mad Men, those shows have already pretty deeply set stylistic choices, so it can be hard to really pinpoint a specific director's impact. Some of the MCU directors are very workmanlike and are just there to implement the writers/Feige vision competently, but others leave very clear stylistic marks (for better or worse) like Whedon, Waititi, Raimi, Watts, the Russos, Zhao, and Coogler. Watts was originally going to do F4 and I can imagine a pretty clear mark he'd leave on it. I don't know about Shakman (not in a bad way, but I just literally don't know. I loved Mad Men and the first 6 seasons of GoT, but I couldn't really pick the episodes he did by just by watching them.) Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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Ezra Miller meets with Warners leadership in a The Flash course correct.quote:According to sources, Miller vowed to seek help after learning that De Luca and Abdy were considering all options for Flash, including scrapping the $250 million movie if things devolved further with Miller. While the actor is said to not have minded the stream of bad headlines, they were spooked by the notion of the film getting canceled and jolted to take action. Says one source: “They care about The Flash. It’s one of their favorite characters to play.”
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I have honestly not heard of him until today. Does he have a signature style? What distinguishes him as a fantastic TV director? He came in late to Always Sunny (season 3), but he pretty much established how the show would be shot and directed from that point on. His episodes are among the best of the middle seasons and the creators themselves have recently attributed a lot of Sunny hitting its stride during those seasons to his direction. Also this: live with fruit posted:Shakman feels very Russo Bros, but in a good way. He knows comedy, he knows ensemble casts and he know serialized storytelling.
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Lobok posted:I feel like whoever wrote that headline was a fan of a certain Warner Bros. cartoon.
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