DC Media: TV Shows, Animated Movies and Video Games

[CPSparkles]

Everyone’s making arguments assuming that the test audience scores indicates a movie worse than Batman and Robin when they’re really comparable to a number of films that ended up coming out and being extremely successful and well-loved. Nothing to indicate that cancelling the film is worth losing out of the trust of the fans and the creators

It’s easy to say business needs to be impersonal when you’re running a grocery store or manufacturing cars. It’s a lot harder to do when the people you hire are the product.

The test results had nothing to do with the decision. like Robanker said the real reason is write offs.

it's Purchase Accounting. WB can write off their costs on something like Batgirl as a loss.
New mergers have certain loopholes they can exploit within a window of time to write off certain deals/projects started just before the merger.

Even if it was the reviews, the situation WB was in back when batman and robin came out is very very different from their current situation.

Back then, Batman [a single Intellectual property] wasn't bleeding cash or desperately in debt.
Today WB and it's parent company are heavily in debt and the value of their entire catalogue decreases every time a bad movie is released.

Not remotely comparable situations. They are desperate and have little wriggle room currently.

Cancelling the movie isn't going to lose that much customer trust. They lost that years ago but it will create problems with creatives going forwards most likely.

[CPSparkles]

After Burton we had couple of "interesting" Batman movies that also did some damage to the brand.

Yeah and it took Nolan and a few years distance [with the animated series in between] to recover.

[Veni]

https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=...A9-53BB-A709-4

Harley Quinn Season 4 has appeared on EIDR with a 2023 release date and episode titles

The episode titles:

401 Gotham's Hottest Hotties

402 B.I.T.C.H.

403 Icons Only

404 Business Conference Without Chlamydia

405 Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up

406 Metamorphosis

407 Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise

408 Il Buffone

409 Potato Based Cloning Incident

410 Killer's Block

[CPSparkles]

https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=...A9-53BB-A709-4

Harley Quinn Season 4 has appeared on EIDR with a 2023 release date and episode titles

The episode titles:

401 Gotham's Hottest Hotties

402 B.I.T.C.H.

403 Icons Only

404 Business Conference Without Chlamydia

405 Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up

406 Metamorphosis

407 Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise

408 Il Buffone

409 Potato Based Cloning Incident

410 Killer's Block

I'm guessing they filmed 3 and 4 back to back just like they did with seasons 1 and 2. Right?

[GamerSlyRatchet]

https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=...A9-53BB-A709-4

Harley Quinn Season 4 has appeared on EIDR with a 2023 release date and episode titles

The episode titles:

401 Gotham's Hottest Hotties

402 B.I.T.C.H.

403 Icons Only

404 Business Conference Without Chlamydia

405 Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up

406 Metamorphosis

407 Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise

408 Il Buffone

409 Potato Based Cloning Incident

410 Killer's Block

They also leaked the titles for Batman: Caped Crusader and seasons one and two of Batwheels.

I'm surprised nothing's popped up for My Adventures With Superman.

[Digifiend]

The sandman is pretty solid. Shame matt ryan isnt in it, even tho jenna is ok. Jj cant stop screwing us even when he does nothing. That is all.

Ha, you can rely on Doctor Who actors to do a good job in comic book movies and shows. The actors who played the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Doctors, and all of the 11th's companions, have done something Marvel or DC related.

CW Gotham Knights is said to be dead

Fake news. The source they're citing says he doesn't know the show's status.
https://twitter.com/ErikDavis/status...09749749108740

Strange Adventures and Green Lantern appear to be dead.
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/kevin-sm...green-lantern/

[Thezmage]

The test results had nothing to do with the decision. like Robanker said the real reason is write offs.

it's Purchase Accounting. WB can write off their costs on something like Batgirl as a loss.
New mergers have certain loopholes they can exploit within a window of time to write off certain deals/projects started just before the merger.

Even if it was the reviews, the situation WB was in back when batman and robin came out is very very different from their current situation.

Back then, Batman [a single Intellectual property] wasn't bleeding cash or desperately in debt.
Today WB and it's parent company are heavily in debt and the value of their entire catalogue decreases every time a bad movie is released.

Not remotely comparable situations. They are desperate and have little wriggle room currently.

Cancelling the movie isn't going to lose that much customer trust. They lost that years ago but it will create problems with creatives going forwards most likely.

I was referring to the people in this thread arguing as if it was the next Batman and Robin when the audience reactions are closer to It Chapter One

[Frontier]

I'm guessing they filmed 3 and 4 back to back just like they did with seasons 1 and 2. Right?

It would seem to indicate that they commissioned another 26-episode order like season 1-2, if it's legit.

[Veni]

It would seem to indicate that they commissioned another 26-episode order like season 1-2, if it's legit.

It's can't be 26 because season 3 has 10 episodes. Season 4 has also 10 episodes according to the link. So they commissioned 20 new episodes this time instead of 26.

[Primal Slayer]

Sandman is finally out on Netflix. I really enjoyed it. The middle was a little slow with Vortex but really hoping for a 2nd season.

I'm guessing they filmed 3 and 4 back to back just like they did with seasons 1 and 2. Right?

Yeah, they just prefer to break up HQ into shorter seasons compared to YJ.

[Robotman]

https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=...A9-53BB-A709-4

Harley Quinn Season 4 has appeared on EIDR with a 2023 release date and episode titles

The episode titles:

401 Gotham's Hottest Hotties

402 B.I.T.C.H.

403 Icons Only

404 Business Conference Without Chlamydia

405 Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up

406 Metamorphosis

407 Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise

408 Il Buffone

409 Potato Based Cloning Incident

410 Killer's Block

Harley and crew are gonna have a field day when they find out that Nightwing's real name is Dick.

It is kinda fitting that Nightwing and Harley have a run in. Batman's former sidekick who went on to bigger and better things and The Joker's former "sidekick" who ditched him and went on to better things.

[StarSpangledMan]

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/studios/...av-219535.html

Looks like the danger to WB animation was exaggerated.

[Frontier]

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/studios/...av-219535.html

Looks like the danger to WB animation was exaggerated.

That's good to hear .

[Robotman]

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/studios/...av-219535.html

Looks like the danger to WB animation was exaggerated.

“…there seems to be a great deal of misinformation and conjecture floating around.”

The understatement of the freakin year.

[HsssH]

Yeah, from reactions online you might think that literally everything was cancelled.