Is there anything that we can do to prevent this movie from becoming lost media permanently?
There's so many lost movies, books, TV shows, etc from studios handling them poorly and I don't want this movie to be put into that pile I mean for frick's sake it's 2024 lost media shouldn't be being made in this year
There's got to be some way to save this movie there's no way that someone doesn't have a spare copy in the back on a USB drive
james gunn is probably the only one that could make something happen
But would he be willing to risk losing his job?
i don't know, but i wouldn't want to work for WB if i was him at this point
>we have to ally with Gunn to save CvACME
We're like Batman having to team up with Joker for some reason.
everything that consumers could do has been done
But they all got rejected with no second offers
Not really. You can boycott WB and tell them exactly why. Fricking with their cash is the only thing these people understand
Good luck trying to do that
best plot for an original kids move I heard of in years
Someone would have to leak it, right?
Yes, but it would have to be someone at the studio
The rough cut is probably on a hard drive. Who knows if it's air gapped or not. The North Koreans stole a ton of data and rough cuts of movies in their James Franco hack. Hollywood is stupid so they probably didn't learn their lesson. Might be on a cloud or internal sever. A clever person could probably get a hold of it. I'm guessing the physical drive and server would be near Burbank.
SFX houses, editors and composers also get huge chunks of the rough cut to do their job. Those people don't know anything about security. It would be strange if someone got inside their systems to look around. Maybe piece together a complete film.
But we don't want the rough cut or any edits we want the full completed movie
i did cancel max and gave this as the reason. as well as the other stuff they're removing
losing Frisky Dingo was tragic
meant for
media would get cancelled and shelved forever long before this. Frick snydercut gays.
Isn't that also how and why so many silent films were burned too anon?
Those were burned by accident or via incompetence. Before video and TV and the concept of reruns and rentals, very few movies were popular enough to be re-released and they were put in the vault or just tossed in the trash if the studio didn't have space or money to store it. In those days, film was extremely flammable. So accidental fires and explosions were common because of how unstable the storage was.
It's not that they were canceled. There just wasn't any money in storing something that would not have any re-sale value until many decades later.
I mean you do have a point but what I don't get is we're not in that era anymore so why are they still trying to delete films
They get a tax write-off. A similar thing happened to a movie called 'Hippie Hippie Shake' starring Cillian Murphy which was meant to release nearly 15-years ago; "After the box-office failure of Green Zone (2010), Working Title's parent company, Universal Pictures, wrote off this movie in an attempt to partially off-set that movie's loss of over one hundred million dollars. The insurers reportedly stipulated that the original camera negative be destroyed." But even if the original negative is destroyed there would still surely be a digital copy of the movie on a hard-drive somewhere.
If it's been 15 years and it hasn't been found it's gone forever
this is a communist lie used to justify the "missing" italian futurist films
You don't think maybe it's just terrible like Batgirl would have been?
no. the executives didn't even watch it.
The concept is kino
You're gonna need a crack team of professional thieves
Bros... it's time to put together a team.
>Anon v. Coyote v. Acme
Bros has it ever occurred to you this is just a publicity stunt?
Would you really have cared about this movie otherwise?
Yes and yes.
Nah, you're assuming too much competence on the part of movie execs
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
>Bros has it ever occurred to you this is just a publicity stunt?
At first yes, but it has gone too far for that now.
Other than for #SupportAnimation reasons, why are people clamoring for this to be released? Live action Looney Tunes crossovers have a notoriously bad track record and this sounds like some Tom and Jerry 2021 level slop. They probably barely have the toons in it and cheaply recycle classic gags just like the Tom and Jerry movie too.
Also the animation is done in that shitty cel shaded style the Chip n Dale tried passing off as “2D”, you just know that wouldve rubbed people wrong
just torrent it zoom zoom frickwit
WB wanted 60 million for it
so we start a kickstarter that raises 60 million.
oh wait...no one here would spend any money on this movie anyways
>WB wanted 60 million
Didn't it cost them half that? And weren't they trying to sell it for 30 to Amazon/Netflix?
no they wanted 60 million and only got 30 million as an offer when they tried to sell it.
Regardless of the amount, no one here would spend money to get it released.
I don't get this business model, they made a whole movie before even having a distribution deal? even the worst trash managed to get into theaters, so what happened here exactly? either somebody was extremely dumb or extremely smart and just wanted the tax write-off
>before even having a distribution deal?
Do they even need one? They've got HBO.
apparently they must have pitched it as something sellable if they are shelving it because no one wants to buy it at their price
They made the movie assuming it would be in theaters
New guy comes in and sees that the film isn’t good (or maybe it is good but he doesn’t think audiences will care) and just wants to get rid of it
>New guy comes in and sees
We know he didn't watch it.
Yeah I’m sure the film is amazing.
I only know the title of the movie but it absolutely doesn't sound like theater material. they should have just started off as direct to streaming liek disney did with that Chip 'n' Dale movie. in fact your own proprietary platform seems like the perfect place to dump these metapieces.
so overall it was probably someone being indeed stupid and at some point they saw it was just more profitable to do the write-off
I don't care about that, but I hope someone will leak the pilot episode of that Powerpuff Girls live action. The script alone was dumpster fire kino.
Getting a tax write-off for a film or show should result in immediate release to the public domain. Essentially, through the tax write-off, everyone is paying for part of its creating, therefore everyone owns part of it. This will either discourage this behavior or, at the least, let people see what was allegedly so bad we all had to cover paying for it.
>becoming lost media
if it was never released
it was never lost to begin with.
someone would have to overpay to force WB hand. it would be too embarrasing for them if its successful
they should make it so that if a studio is going to scrap a movie for tax purposes, the film automatically enters the public domain. i think that would be reasonable enough.