5 posts tagged ‘warner bros discovery’
Year-end roundtable: Warner Bros. Discovery's 12 months on fire
AV Club,
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
Beloved Hollywood Genius David Zaslav Admits Writers Were Right 49 Days After Strike Ends
Gizmodo,
The current Warner Bros. Discovery regime is making headlines with its take-backsies on the James Gunn-produced Looney Tunes feature Coyote vs. Acme, which was briefly shelved before thankfully getting shopped around instead. As the WB strips away its legacy in its 100th year, head honcho David Zaslav is out… Read more...
David Zaslav says okay, fine, the writers are "right about almost everything"
If you were a wealthy Hollywood executive who had inadvertently become the face of studio greed, you might want to resist commenting on the relative salaries of the laborers with whom you were recently locked in a long-term battle. Yet Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav can’t help himself. “They are right about… Read more...
Rep. Joaquin Castro asks Justice Dept. to review Warner Bros.' practice of permanently shelving movies for tax breaks
Boing Boing,
In the past couple of years, Warner Bros. Discovery has withheld completed movies from release in order to get tax breaks. "Batgirl" and "Scoob! Holiday Haunt" were fully completed and intended to be released on the streamer Max, but permanently shelved so the studio could cut losses and get tax breaks. — Read the rest
Warner Bros.’s Coyote Vs. Acme fiasco attracts congressional attention
It’s not an uncommon sight in any Road Runner cartoon for Wile E. Coyote to become the victim of his own schemes. His flagrant self-owning behavior often sees the relentlessly beleaguered desert predator a casualty of a bomb he set, a tunnel he painted, or a cliff he sawed. Ironically, that’s the kind of situation Mr.… Read more...