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Reuters confirms that WB is planning to announce "a new strategy" for streaming today on their public media and earnings call. - HBOMax is officially dead and will be folded into Discovery+, they are considering giving Discovery+ a new name after the merge. - They are not only eliminating the scripted content streaming division, but also the unscripted streaming content division at HBOMax to fold it into the existing unscripted content division at Discovery. - Firm commitments to no streaming exclusive movies or same day streaming release ever going forward. - Considering (but, not confirmed) a new free, but ad-supported, streaming service for WB's "classic" movies. - All the media departments (movie, TV, digital, and gaming) will be vertically integrated and working together to create tie-in content for big IPs they own. Also looking into how to merge/tie-in departments that exist at both Discovery and Warner. - They plan to slash executive compensation, engage in a wave of layoffs, and find ways to cancel expensive long-term contracts that the previous management signed (particularly the $250 million exclusivity deal with JJ Abrams and his production company). - They have hired back the former WB Studio Executive who worked on Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings to help guide the movie division. They want to focus exclusively on huge blockbusters and existing IP that does not require them to pay a license to make fewer movies, but safer and larger profits per project, with the movie division. quote:Warner Bros Discovery expected to unveil new streaming strategy https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/warner-bros-discovery-expected-unveil-new-streaming-strategy-2022-08-04/ Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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feedmyleg posted:Nah, I'm judging them on the fact that the 45 year old is clearly a loser I'm 43, single, mostly fit and athletically active, live in a loft downtown, have no kids, no baggage, am relatively well off and can travel at a moment's notice anywhere. I don't meet many 43 year olds in similar positions.* I basically live like I'm in my 20s, only with more financial freedom (age = further in career), because most people my age have a ton of baggage due to having been married once or multiple times, having kids, having a house, having health and weight issues (weight and health means they stop doing more active things or playing sports, etc.), etc. Like I said earlier, dating in your 40s becomes a mess because of the large variance of life situations. My Bumble/etc. is set at my age and it's a gigantic dumpster fire. I typically don't *date* people in their twenties because it's annoying, but that's what you end up around in general when it comes to doing things when you're relatively free as you get older. Actors are often in similar situations due to acting and what comes with it, including keeping your looks as you age and financial freedom. It's like the opposite of "loser," they just stayed younger in a lot of ways than their peers, so they end up with younger because people's standards typically stay par to near what they are. This is different than cases in which people groom teens to be their lovers, which is just disgusting. *edit: I probably would in NYC, Chicago, or LA downtown, to be fair - it's just not common as you get out of the larger cities Darko fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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Okay. You do realize that saying that you live like you're in your 20s and you're not willing to date someone with baggage isn't helping your point, right? e: Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:- Firm commitments to no streaming exclusive movies or same day streaming release ever going forward. So does this confirm that the Venture Bros. movie is canceled? feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Reuters confirms that WB is planning to announce "a new strategy" for streaming today on their public media and earnings call. I know about James Gunn's post, but this doesn't sound good for Peacemaker. It sounds like they're shitcanning all scripted content, from this, yes?
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if they are both consenting who gives a gently caress. Jesus christ, get a loving life.
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feedmyleg posted:So does this confirm that the Venture Bros. movie is canceled? tbh at this point I wouldn't assume anything is safe unless it gets explicitly stated. poo poo sucks!
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thrawn527 posted:I know about James Gunn's post, but this doesn't sound good for Peacemaker. It sounds like they're shitcanning all scripted content, from this, yes? That's for in-house studio stuff. Peacekeeper is gunns, every movie studio has in-house writers who come up with projects. The part pertaining to gunn and other creatives, would be the part talking about getting out of expensive contracts with JJ Abrams, who has nothing to show for his future projects. venture Bros might be in trouble, but it's an animation, so if it's in production it might cost more to cancel that than finish. bushisms.txt fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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feedmyleg posted:So does this confirm that the Venture Bros. movie is canceled? They haven't had the media/earnings call yet, but I doubt they are making announcements about specific projects there. Nothing is firm on stuff that is already in development or finished. A lot of it has been cancelled and shelved already, but a lot of it is still officially on. thrawn527 posted:I know about James Gunn's post, but this doesn't sound good for Peacemaker. It sounds like they're shitcanning all scripted content, from this, yes? It says they are moving away from streaming exclusive scripted content. They will still have scripted content that airs on HBO or is syndicated. As you mentioned, Gunn has said he has been told that Season 2 of Peacemaker is safe. But, after that is 
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feedmyleg posted:You do realize that saying that you live like you're in your 20s and you're not willing to date someone with baggage isn't helping your point, right? "Baggage" in your forties is a hell of a lot bigger than "baggage" in your 20s, from what I've seen and heard. It appears that age is the real low point because in your 50s and 60s the kids have grown up and things are settled. I think I saw a study recently that named the 40s as people's most miserable time in life, too. Don't remember where though. Also, RIP HBO Max, I liked it.
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RIP HBO MAX, gave us ZSJL then blew away like leaves in the wind.
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josh04 posted:RIP HBO MAX, gave us ZSJL then blew away like leaves in the wind. I still think it’s funny that the story about him supposedly conning $70,000,000 out of the studio to finish his version of JL was supposed to make me hate him and sympathize with the studio.
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josh04 posted:RIP HBO MAX, gave us ZSJL then blew away like leaves in the wind. You flew too close to the sun. Now look at you.
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feedmyleg posted:Okay. No, I honestly, have no idea what you're talking about. Some people want to nest, some people want freedom. Baggage isn't a default negative; it's things that hold back relative freedom. in America, people in their 20s tend to be far more free than those in their 40s because most people get married/have kids/buy houses/stuff by their 30s or make lifestyle choices that start limiting them physically. It seems like you're buying into the too common idea that you have to do that stuff by 40, in which case, hell no, you don't. edit: HBO Max was the best streaming service with the best original content (2 is Amazon). This is sad. Darko fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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That really sucks about HBO Max. The Max Originals delivered some really strong content, and their library overall was really good. The app itself is trash, but hopefully some of these titles disappearing reappear on Discovery.
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Can Criterion or Mubi or whoever cares about quality and isn't owned by a giant conglomerate get into originals, please? I'll take ShoutFactoryTV or whatever if they all are.
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RIP to probably the best streaming service so far, too good for this world
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I’m sorry I mentioned Zach Braff
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this is probably the most detailed and disturbing report yet on Ezra Miller, jeez https://twitter.com/DanaSchusterNYC/status/1555151127909376002 I imagine WB is hoping (praying) for an Ansel Elgort/West Side Story situation where the allegations have faded from the headlines by the time The Flash is released, but that seems increasingly unlikely
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Ansles situation was a one and done, Ezras is a slow continuous drip of crazy.
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I do wish that coverage of Ezra being a self-destructive creep wasn’t always paired with images of them looking fierce. There are tons of photos you can find of Ezra looking masculine and like a goober, and pairing stories of their kidnappings with the most provocative red carpet fashion is a bit annoying.
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Reading that article, it's more of a tidal wave, jesus
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Welp. That probably fills in one of the 8 blanks they are going to announce at D23 next month. Gonna be interesting to see Chloe Zhao make a movie about a magical space troll and a pansexual alien whose superpower is making everyone horny and want to gently caress him.
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Eternals Revenge of Kingo
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Fried Watermelon posted:Eternals Revenge of Kingo Return of the Kingo
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Barry Convex posted:we did it, team! Were all of those people really in the movie? I saw it but I swear the team was only 4 or 5 people.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Were all of those people really in the movie? I saw it but I swear the team was only 4 or 5 people. Two of them die, two of them are villains, and one of them abandons them at the climax.
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lmao I only recently finished Eternals, feels like it took me ten months to watch it. It was OK.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Were all of those people really in the movie? I saw it but I swear the team was only 4 or 5 people. I know the movie was extremely forgettable, but the team was obviously more than 4 or 5 people. The big trailer shot of the team didn't have 10 people, but it had 8. A big part of the marketing was that this was a big team.  This one is on you, not the very bad, forgettable movie. Which it definitely was.
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Eternals was the definition of "fine." It also felt like it was simultaneously too long and too short. There are some really cool set pieces and effects, the heel-turn is pretty well done, some of the actors give great performances, the Celestials look amazing and they really nail the display of the scale and how massive they are in a way that most movies can't. But, several of the characters are just red shirts to get killed, Kit Harrington had nothing to do, and structuring the movie as a 20-minute opening, 2 hours of flashbacks to backstory, and a 15-minute climax was a terrible idea for pacing. I get that there is an inherent challenge to introducing at least 12 characters and their backstories in a movie while keeping a brisk pace, but the middle really drags. Also, this may just be me because it isn't a common criticism, but child actors are usually the worst parts of movies. The girl in Eternals is good for a child actor, but it feels a little painful when she is doing scenes with Jolie, Hayek, and Madden, who do a much better job.
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https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/1555222357882458114/ Joker sequel confirmed.
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Eternals isn't nearly as bad as its Rotten Tomatoes score would suggest, but it manages to feel both too ambitious and not ambitious enough at the same time; there are just too many characters introduced and too much backstory for a single film to tackle them satisfyingly, and Zhao's more interesting attempts to deviate from the Marvel Studios house style seldom feel like they go far enough. if it had to be a movie instead of a Disney+ series, it should have taken the Cloud Atlas approach of continuously cross-cutting between different time periods, but Disney would never have greenlit that Edward Mass posted:https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/1555222357882458114/ officially announcing this the same day as WBD's second-quarter results is probably not a coincidence. it's also ironic, given that Zaslav would almost certainly never have greenlit Joker in the first place, as he apparently thinks every DC film should be a $200m spectacle Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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Timeless Appeal posted:I do wish that coverage of Ezra being a self-destructive creep wasn’t always paired with images of them looking fierce. There are tons of photos you can find of Ezra looking masculine and like a goober, and pairing stories of their kidnappings with the most provocative red carpet fashion is a bit annoying. Again, you have to wonder about the reasoning behind this.
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thrawn527 posted:I know the movie was extremely forgettable, but the team was obviously more than 4 or 5 people. The big trailer shot of the team didn't have 10 people, but it had 8. A big part of the marketing was that this was a big team. I don't remember what most of the people in that picture did. I do remember (not pictured) Kingo Pissfingers, Angelina Jolie is literally brain damaged, the white guy in the middle is like Superman(?), and the black dude invented the atom bomb. Oh, and the kid was upset about something. And then I remember Blade saying something off screen. Talk about a forgettable movie.
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Here's the real Joker news: https://twitter.com/VeraDrew22/status/1555213860373532672
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Tankbuster posted:Where's Kingo? They don't include him in the group shots because whenever Kingo is not on screen, all the other characters are asking, "Where's Kingo?" It is a huge crowd pleaser, so they find ways to orchestrate him being excluded from the group shots.
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