Apparently 70% of HBO Max employees are getting shitcanned. They are moving away from scripted movies/shows. Supergirl movie is apparently cancelled. Looks like the Green Lantern show is done too. I’m sure more will follow.
So they’re going to make it a reality tv network? Or just scrap it all together? Not sure how someone could conclude that HBO, the premier network for scripted shows, should scrap them.
It’s the shows and the DC content. I can’t fathom how reversing back to a cable based network is somehow a good move. I’ll pay for streaming and I’ll steal their stuff for free if it’s on cable.
I have no idea what they are doing. Apparently they only want big movies. Seems like Young Justice and other animated stuff are fucked.
Read this for some insight into the stupidity... https://www.tomsguide.com/news/hbo-max-could-be-dead-discovery-plus-rumored-to-take-over
Discovery+ makes wayyyy more money than HBOMax if you look at the numbers none of the HBOMax shows have been good. Theres still gonna be a HBO though so you’ll get the good content there.
That is mind blowing to me. I never for once split second considered the need to get Disc+. Doesnt seem remotely interesting.
HBO Max had 48.6 million U.S. subscribers after Q1. Discovery+ had 22 million globally, while HBO Max was at 76 million globally. Just keep them separate and do a bundle if need be, but Discovery execs running the Warner Bros. division is on the way to being a huge catastrophe. Check out this week's episode of Sydney Sweeney crying on Euphoria on Discovery+!
Sounds like Batgirl was test screening similar to the new Shazam coming out, so this is purely a cost cutting move https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/batgirl-hbo-max-movie-dc-canceled-1235191932/
Killing off Harley Quinn would be an elite level of criminal negligence. It’s literally one of the best things they’ve ever made
It suck’s because they’ll keep churning out those trash ass non Matt reeves movies and just take all their good content to the chopping block because why the hell not right. it’s incredible how poorly run the DC franchise is by these people.
The worst part is Marvel shows us it’s not hard, which makes their inability look a thousand times worse. Maybe Disney can just buy it all.
Marvel takes characters most people don’t even know exist and makes people crave more of that content. DC can’t even get fucking Superman right. It’s truly incredible how incompetent these people are.
Hilariously Smallville showed how to properly do Superman decades ago and the movie studio just ignored it. Superman can be very interesting but he’s gotta have a strong cast of characters around him or it’s destined to fail. This isn’t that hard “Let’s make him a brooding asshole like Batman” literally no one asked for this content why are you doing this?
Also, the Snyder Cut has been retconned and the Whedon JL is the official canon of Justice League. Just stunning incompetence. I thought the Snyder cut was better, but spending $100 million to do a directors cut of a movie only to ignore it happened is why they are who they are.
I mean they’re both hot trash that couldn’t stand up to most marvel movies (which is sad because there are some very forgettable marvel movies) but it was pretty obvious that people enjoyed Snyder’s cut better
I have to imagine they are probably going to reboot everything sooner rather than later so it probably won't matter.
Thought I read something about Henry Cavill coming back as Superman though. To what extent I'm not sure. Or maybe that isn't even accurate at all.
That was a rumor but nothing has come of it so far. I just think it's all such a confusing mess if they really want to do a connected universe it probably needs a revamp.
It and Supergirl were ideas from the now-axed CEO, who wanted a female led DC lineup, replacing Batman and Superman, etc. She's been fired so who knows what will come next
If Flash gets canceled, among the other implications and storylines that would spawn, is the idea that it would mean Michael Keaton would have returned to the role of Batman, to great acclaim, starred in one movie (Flash), cameoed in another (Aquaman), and was a major supporting player in a third (Batgirl)...and will never appear on screen. Only WB could be so incompetent as to have a huge reveal like "Keaton back as Batman," spend a ton of money on three movies to feature him, and then cut, cancel, or reshoot him out of each one of them. Not even Sony is that poorly run and they released Morbius twice.
WB already had the perfect Flash casted in house and yet they still managed to cast the male Amber Heard not to mention they did actually cast Amber Heard as well
NBC now reporting that HBO Max and Discovery+ will merge with Discovery+ being the new service. Seems like a not smart idea, but I'm not the head of one of the oldest media empires in Hollywood.