There's no winning in this scenario, if they do cave then everyone will just call it a marketing strategy, people will refuse to watch out principal, it will bomb and audiences will never be listened to again. Other companies may also try and market films like this anyway. Cinema ruined.
The only winning move is to dump it on max so that people can watch it, and accept the $30m loss. There's a minor hope that it might drive people to subscribe. The pr of shelving it is worth more than $30m.
Alternatively they could just put it in cinemas and market the shit out of it, banking on the primary audience being parents and young children instead of seething manchildren on the internet.
>if they do cave then everyone will just call it a marketing strategy, people will refuse to watch out principal, it will bomb and audiences will never be listened to again
Just like the Sonic movie, right?
I was thinking exactly the same thing. If this whole thing had been a viral marketing strategy by Warner, I'd have called it genius. But sadly, I think Zaslav is just a moron.
>A bunch of people, including Ruby Gillman and James Gunn, make a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for giving him faulty products >David Zaslav, current Warner CEO (he's here due to the Discovery merger and came in after the movie started production), decides to shut it down >Even though it's already completed >This is either because he thinks it's gonna bomb and wants a tax write-off to recoup his losses or just to clear out projects that didn't start under his leadership due to hubris >But anyway, to GET that tax write-off, he needs to delete the film >Delete this fully completed film >People are pissed, apparently it's quite good but we'll never be able to judge for ourselves
>People are pissed
That's overstating it a bit. Trying to get a writeoff for willful destruction of an asset is a crime in every scenario except this one.
I have no idea how it's even legal in this case. I can only assume this is some loophole that no US legislator ever took the effort to close because nobody thought the CEO of an entertainment company would ever do something this irrationally stupid and conducive to bad PR.
Paramount+ maybe? I forget which ones but one of the studio streaming platforms has them, I believe. It also has godawful nu-Tunes or some such shit which is abject garbage. Probably best to torrent, as always.
What I want to know is where to watch 2 Stupid Dogs. That was a fine program.
dont fricking laugh this is how my great grandfather was killed in the holocaust. the nazis took him from his bunk and instructed him to walk out to the edge of a cliff. then they cruelly instructed he saw the cliff off. once he did this, he would of course be left suspended in mid-air for a moment, and would take out and display a sign that read" oh no!" before plummeting to the ground below. gruesome stuff
It's okay gravity is just a theory
a lot of furries are about ready to burn down Zaslav's house
There's no winning in this scenario, if they do cave then everyone will just call it a marketing strategy, people will refuse to watch out principal, it will bomb and audiences will never be listened to again. Other companies may also try and market films like this anyway. Cinema ruined.
Or, they delete it. Cinema ruined.
This is the one where Scratchy finally gets Itchy.
This. Despite being praised by test audiences this whole drama makes it a 50/50 chance it will bomb.
Not that quality has ever mattered in Hollywood
Nah, Zaslav is just worried he will look like an idiot if it succeeds. He got decent offers from other stuidos >than the tax break they are going for.
The only winning move is to dump it on max so that people can watch it, and accept the $30m loss. There's a minor hope that it might drive people to subscribe. The pr of shelving it is worth more than $30m.
Alternatively they could just put it in cinemas and market the shit out of it, banking on the primary audience being parents and young children instead of seething manchildren on the internet.
>if they do cave then everyone will just call it a marketing strategy, people will refuse to watch out principal, it will bomb and audiences will never be listened to again
Just like the Sonic movie, right?
I was thinking exactly the same thing. If this whole thing had been a viral marketing strategy by Warner, I'd have called it genius. But sadly, I think Zaslav is just a moron.
I didn't hear ya'll cry when wokies cancelled Pepe and censored classic Looney Tunes, but you're gonna cry now?
>We never got to see a movie with post-weight gain Lana Condor
>Those swollen milkers
Give me a quick qrd
>A bunch of people, including Ruby Gillman and James Gunn, make a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for giving him faulty products
>David Zaslav, current Warner CEO (he's here due to the Discovery merger and came in after the movie started production), decides to shut it down
>Even though it's already completed
>This is either because he thinks it's gonna bomb and wants a tax write-off to recoup his losses or just to clear out projects that didn't start under his leadership due to hubris
>But anyway, to GET that tax write-off, he needs to delete the film
>Delete this fully completed film
>People are pissed, apparently it's quite good but we'll never be able to judge for ourselves
>People are pissed
That's overstating it a bit. Trying to get a writeoff for willful destruction of an asset is a crime in every scenario except this one.
I have no idea how it's even legal in this case. I can only assume this is some loophole that no US legislator ever took the effort to close because nobody thought the CEO of an entertainment company would ever do something this irrationally stupid and conducive to bad PR.
Dont you mean understated then?
You don’t need to be angry to point out criminal behavior, to state fact.
RIP in piss
I used to love when Wile E. Coyote would talk and sound really intelligent.
For me it was the ones where he had to punch in to get beaten by the sheepdog and they just stop fighting and go home once its quitting time
Also brilliant.
>Hello Ralph.
makes me lol every time
where can I watch the original Looney Tunes cartoons bros?
Paramount+ maybe? I forget which ones but one of the studio streaming platforms has them, I believe. It also has godawful nu-Tunes or some such shit which is abject garbage. Probably best to torrent, as always.
What I want to know is where to watch 2 Stupid Dogs. That was a fine program.
Max unless they took them off the service.
Golden Collection DVDs, they even still have the blackface gags.
Based. I am not a racist but I want the original material. I will store it right next to my Nazi memorabilia.
Whatever happened to that Christopher Lloyd Looney Tunes show?
dont fricking laugh this is how my great grandfather was killed in the holocaust. the nazis took him from his bunk and instructed him to walk out to the edge of a cliff. then they cruelly instructed he saw the cliff off. once he did this, he would of course be left suspended in mid-air for a moment, and would take out and display a sign that read" oh no!" before plummeting to the ground below. gruesome stuff