David Zaslav spent a lot of time during today’s investor call talking about James Gunn, Peter Safran and the DCU. Zero mention of The Batman 2.
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David Zaslav spent a lot of time during today’s investor call talking about James Gunn, Peter Safran and the DCU. Zero mention of The Batman 2.
John Rocha is hearing that Andy Muschietti has been removed as the director of The Brave and the Bold.
I can’t believe Gunn was actually going to go in that direction. He was actually going to have a Middle Eastern terror state in his movie in the year 2025.
Good lord.
PW Insider reports Brian Gewirtz has returned to WWE and will have a voice in the creative for The Rock moving forward. Some believe Gewirtz could end up as the head of creative if TKO need to pivot...
It was not his opinion.
Jeff Sneider is already hearing that the new DC Studios is a mess behind the scenes.
John Logan is no longer attached to write the script for The Brave and the Bold.
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MJF’s contract is rumored to expire next week.
The Star Wars franchise is a mess and in a vulnerable position. Zaslav is the type who is going to want to compete and go down fighting even if it means going down in flames.
JJ Abrams did submit a pilot script for his hack HBO project Demimonde. It was rejected.
Say what you will about David Zaslav but he had the sense to see through Abrams’ act.
It’ll be interesting to see who Zaslav puts in charge of Star Trek if the merger happens. He’s going to want to supercharge the franchise to compete with Star Wars and Disney.
Jeff Sneider says Javier Bardem is Marvel’s top choice to play Galactus.
“This is generational disruption that we’re going through. Going through that with a streaming service that’s losing billions of dollars, it’s really difficult to go on offense”. -WBD CEO David Zaslav
Warner Bros Discovery stock is down 20% today. They’re finished.
Grace Randolph says Marvel executives are very worried about The Marvels box office. It’s tracking similarly to The Flash which was a box office disaster.
Interesting that people working at WB believe it doesn’t really even matter who is in charge of DC right now since they expect to be sold to Universal in two years.
WBD stock trading at a pathetic $10 a share.
James Gunn has never run anything. He’s just telling the talent what they want to hear even if he has no plans to follow through.
Robert Meyer Burnett has said it was actually former WB chairman Tobey Emmerich who was running DC. Hamada was just his point man.
I have always felt that the Gunn announcement, followed by the dog and pony show press conference a month later, was just Zaslav trying to get the stock to shoot up a bit. Didn’t work.
James Gunn...
I wonder what WBD shareholders are thinking right now.
What is going on at WB? Jesus, what a mess.
Box Office Theory predicts $350-400m worldwide box office total for The Flash.
The Flash is currently at 68% on rotten tomatoes. Yikes.
Not for one of the alleged best comic book movies ever made.