Do you think that AT&T will have a heavy hand with DC or do you think they'll more or less leave things alone and let the company be? Aside from maybe some DC characters plugging AT&T.
Do you think that AT&T will have a heavy hand with DC or do you think they'll more or less leave things alone and let the company be? Aside from maybe some DC characters plugging AT&T.
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Just heard about this. I have no idea what the outcome will be. If it means getting people to embrace the DC movies, I'm all for it.
There'll be some kind of impact, but who's to say what that's actually going to look like? We don't have anywhere near enough information yet. Or at least I dont. And while I know a thing or three about business, this is a level I don't deal with, with concerns I've only tackled as hypotheticals in a classroom.
I suppose it'll depend a lot on what AT&T plan on doing with WB/DC management. We've seen mergers in the fairly recent past where the new owners change virtually nothing. And I very much doubt the publication side of DC is anything AT&T care very much about, so they might not bother doing anything at all. Their interest in DC is going to be in the larger media applications, not print. But the guys in the administrative chain who Didio and co. answer to might make some changes and/or have different expectations.
We'll know soon enough.
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Not necessarily. The big media conglomerates of today put a great value in holding on to IP rights (whether or not they are correct [for varying values of correct] in doing so is another questions). The publishing side is basically a rounding error on the balance sheet, and it likely brings in decent amount of licensing money. Keeping the titles published gives a very strong trademark defence.
The slash-and-burn approach to corporate mergers and buyouts is quite likely to return, but it's not here yet, and also I believe uncommon on mergers of this scale.
Print isn't "losing money," and DC's comics won't even show up on their radar. DC's movies and television shows will though, and I wonder whether DC's actions re Geoff Johns just a day earlier are related to this. Timing, of course, is everything.
Here's another possible factor, although of course there's no evidence for this being the case -- why did Warner Bros. film chief Toby Emmerich suddenly release a statement yesterday lavishing praise on the Aquaman movie, and in which Johns concurred? (As if they were going to admit it if they thought it was shaky.) Could that be a preemptive strike against rumors that DC might have another flop brewing?
So maybe the merger has already had an impact on the comics, with Johns being moved back into print as a writer.
Anyway I don't think I would work well with Major Hoy. He'd want to launch a slew of "appreciation" comics about very old characters.
Last edited by Trey Strain; 06-13-2018 at 04:16 AM.
The streaming service too as apparently Hulu is the most prized Fox asset that both Disney and Comcast are vying for the most.
As I said in the DCEU thread, I expect the DC streaming service to become a general WB streaming service, as AT&T would want to stream non-DC WB owned IP too, and keeping two services around is a bit much.