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Seeing David Zaslav slowly destroy what became the best streaming app in real time, is honestly depressing. It'll just be a shell of it's former self once he's done.
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The Batman show hasn't been cancelled. It will be made but it won't be released on HBOMax. They are going to have to shop it around to see who will release it.
And yes, it's a cost saving measure since whoever picks it up will also have to pay for the cost of making it.
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Well if Batman can get screwed then I know for a fact that Superman show ain’t making it.
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Things must be bad when Zaslav makes DiDio look like an angel.
Last edited by Johnny; 08-23-2022 at 01:16 AM.
The investors would never allow it! DC is their biggest IP and one with immense potential to help WBD get out of debt. It’s also why they’ll never sell HBO or WBIE, those are their most profitable divisions, especially recently with the HUGE successes of House of the Dragon and Multiversus.
Done with DC. Can't handle the constant whiplash! Time to go on a hiatus!
The company is 50 billion in debt after the merger
If they continue as business as usual they will still have that debt for the next decade
They are going about it in inept and damaging ways to the brand but the sole reason for these cuts is the huge amount of debt post merger
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There's rumours that Cartoon Network itself is on the chopping block.
Yeah, Zaslav is a dinosaur. And sexist. HBO Max, male skewed, scripted. Discovery+, female skewed, non-scripted. So women don't watch drama or comedy, and men don't watch documentaries? I wonder if the reality is that he just doesn't understand scripted content, and was genuinely surprised by the backlash and negative publicity from all of the cancellations?
Maybe Sony could take over, and then give Spider-Man back to Disney?
Oh is it? Then why was that Scoob sequel scrapped? Scooby isn't safe either.
It'll be gone when he's done. The remnants will be absorbed into Discovery+.
Wouldn't be the first time you know - the Adam West Batman was on ABC, which is Disney-owned.
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