Current Events > Batgirl film cancelled: No plans to release film on HBO Max or Theaters

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Brendan Fraser is cursed.

s0nicfan posted...

Brendan Fraser is cursed.

You shut your god damn mouth.

Its amazing how long it took him to learn that acting doesnt mean to just shout all your lines.

Ryven posted...

This is fucking stupid. Was really looking forward to seeing it. Especially for Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton.

Also JK Simmons.

They just need to stick with making good DCAU content as they can still do that.

Live action just isnt working out for them, stick to their strengths.

DarkwingDucky posted...

Also JK Simmons.

ok i wasnt mad about this at all until this post

anything robbing me of jk simmons is criminal

Baha05 posted...

Almost sounds like this might be a way to launder money

No it sounds like a way to steal money.

Laundering money using doesn't involve losing a shitload of legit money. You disguise illegal profits as legit ones.

If you were trying to launder money through a movie you would release it and then fudge numbers to make it seem like it made more profits than it did. It would be kinda ass backwards to have millions of illegal money, invest it and then say "we lost it".

To take legit money, spend it in illegal ways and then say "oh shit we lost $90 million" is fraud not money laundering

I wonder if The Batman spin-offs like Penguin and that Gotham PD show will also end up being cancelled.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

They just need to stick with making good DCAU content as they can still do that.

Live action just isnt working out for them, stick to their strengths.

I think there's a pretty decent chance Discovery is gonna cut them too. Where are they going to fit in their future vision? It sounds like the plan is to focus only on tentpole movie releases and reality show content.

This is one of the reasons people consider Marvel to be better than DC in the films department...The latter for some reason still don't have a clear gameplan on what they want to do. No structure or direction

Leslie Michael and Brendan deserved better

No reason DC should be the equivalent of a soup sandwich

Just sell DC to Disney at this point

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/batgirl-movie-why-not-releasing-warner-bros-1235332062/

In other words, the movie was nearly finished, and already building awareness among fans. Why would Warner Bros. Discovery throw all that away?
According to sources with knowledge of the situation, the most likely reason: taxes.

Several sources note that Batgirl was made under a different regime at Warner Bros., headed by Jason Kilar and Ann Sarnoff, that was singularly focused on building its streaming service, HBO Max. That effort included Kilars infamous decision to release the studios entire 2021 theatrical slate simultaneously on the streamer, which helped build the subscriber base but also jeopardized the studios reputation with top-tier talent (though many agents and stars privately came to appreciate the move when the company paid generous bonuses as a make-nice).
Even before David Zaslav took the reins of the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery as CEO this spring, the exec went on a well-publicized listening tour designed to repair the companys relationship with the creative community. As part of that effort, Zaslav has made no secret of reversing Kilars strategy and committing to releasing first-run feature films in theaters before putting them on HBO Max.
Batgirl found itself on the bad end of that decision, apparently neither big enough to feel worthy of a major theatrical release nor small enough to make economic sense in an increasingly cutthroat streaming landscape. Spending the money to expand the scope of Batgirl for theaters plus the $30 million to $50 million needed to market it domestically and the tens of millions more needed for a global rollout could have nearly doubled spending on the film, and insiders say that was a non-starter at a company newly focused on belt-tightening and the bottom line. (Spokespeople for Warner Bros. and Warner Bros. Discovery declined to comment for this story.)
Releasing the movie on HBO Max would seem to be the most obvious solution. Instead, the company has shelved Batgirl along with the Scoob! sequel and several sources say it will almost certainly take a tax write-down on both films, seen internally as the most financially sound way to recoup the costs (at least, on an accountants ledger). It could justify that by chalking it up to a post-merger change of strategy.

I don't think people realize that this is going to go way beyond Batgirl. Warner Bros/HBO are no longer the same company. CW is already completely gutted and basically wrapping up next year. HBO Max is next. This is only the beginning.

If it isn't a blockbuster movie do not hold your breath on it being released at all. Remains to be seen how HBO as a channel will even be supported after this merger.

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Foppe posted...

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You can add Green Lantern to that list now, too.

__aCEr__ posted...

It will find its way onto the internet eventually.

Not if Bully Zaslav gets ahold of both it and a paper shredder. He really seems to have it out for this film apparently.

One could always dream.