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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

Saw this conspiracy theory: this announcement was leaked to create buzz/publicly. WB will later announce that public outcry changed their minds, and people who might not have otherwise watched it will see it out.
 
UssGlenn said:
Saw this conspiracy theory: this announcement was leaked to create buzz/publicly. WB will later announce that public outcry changed their minds, and people who might not have otherwise watched it will see it out.
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That would be nice (not the deception, but the movie actually getting released after all), but I'll only believe it if it happens.
 
Variety is reporting that they cancelled it to write it off as a loss on their taxes and in order to do so they cannot ever monetize the film, so it will never be seen.
 
So, what's Warner Bros/DCEU line-up looking like after 2023? So far, we have 'Black Adam' on 21-October, then 'Shazam' on 21-December, followed by 'Aquaman' on 17-March-2023, which is currently in the midst of reshoots to replace Michael Keaton's Batman with Ben Affleck's Batman. Any word on the current status of Amber Heard's Mera? Has her role been reduced or eliminated completely? I'm thinking if she's been excised completely, then Affleck might have been brought in not only as Keaton's replacement since 'Aquaman' is being released before 'The Flash', but also as a way to fill in some of the narrative gaps that might have occurred with Heard's absence. Also, I'm thinking that 'The Batman' spin-off 'The Penguin' that was scheduled for HBOMax might not go into production.
 
If the Tax write off is true, that means we will never see it outside of a leak. The tax write off thing has thrown a few shows I've heard of permanently in the "can never touch again" pile, and I'm assuming it would be the same with this. I read a theory that this is kind of a "new executive wants to get rid of the old peoples projects/ideas that they can get rid of", and I wonder if that was the reason for the choice to can it and they decided to do the tax write off to get the most out of it while still never releasing it.

Regardless its a really shitty thing to do, WB/DC is just in shambles right now.
 
wayoung said:
Variety is reporting that they cancelled it to write it off as a loss on their taxes and in order to do so they cannot ever monetize the film, so it will never be seen.
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If that's true, it's infuriating. We've got to stop letting rich people screw up everything for everyone else just so they can dodge taxes.
 
crookeddy said:
No, only documentaries from now on for WB, but they can make documentaries about scripted movies.
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This is a joke, right?
wayoung said:
On the Turner channels yes, scripted is dead. At least for the time being. I suspect the only reason there are 3 shows left is due to contract issues. CW has been sold to Nexstar which doesn't have WB's pockets, which is probably why most of their shows are being cancelled. If all or only most shows are being cancelled, :shrug:

I would be incredibly surprised if HBO kills all scripted content though.
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That's a shame, TNT and TBS have had some great stuff over the years. And it's kind of a shock too, since not that long ago those networks whole focus was entirely on dramas for TNT and comedy for TBS. Not to mention the fact that I thought a lot of those kind networks were finally moving away reality show and focusing on higher quality scripted series. It might not be too bad if they're going for more science and nature documentaries, but if it's going for shows like Naked and Afraid, then that really sucks.
crookeddy said:
Yup, I think there are other considerations at play, such as canning HBO Max altogether.
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DigificWriter said:
Again, there's no evidence that HBO Max's future is in jeopardy beyond comments from the credibility-less Grace Randolph.
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Where some of this might come is that they are possibly going to be combing HBOMax and Discovery+ under a new name. So technically what is currently known as HBOMax might not be around in it's current form, but they're not getting rid of it completely.

God, this whole Batgirl thing is just insane, and to put it bluntly is one of the stupidest decisions I've ever heard of in entertainment. I'm also disappointed they're doing the same with Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, I liked the first one and I'd been looking forward to getting more movies in that world.
 
So I get making a movie to keep the rights, like the first Fantastic 4 movie, and not releasing it. But how is making a product and then deliberately losing money on it for tax purposes not some kind of tax fraud? It reminds me of the trick of overpricing apartments so they don't rent, then writing off the "loss", but even those are technically on the market.
 
UssGlenn said:
So I get making a movie to keep the rights, like the first Fantastic 4 movie, and not releasing it. But how is making a product and then deliberately losing money on it for tax purposes not some kind of tax fraud? It reminds me of the trick of overpricing apartments so they don't rent, then writing off the "loss", but even those are technically on the market.
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Yes, this loophole needs to close yesterday.
 
UssGlenn said:
So I get making a movie to keep the rights, like the first Fantastic 4 movie, and not releasing it. But how is making a product and then deliberately losing money on it for tax purposes not some kind of tax fraud? It reminds me of the trick of overpricing apartments so they don't rent, then writing off the "loss", but even those are technically on the market.
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The credit they get for the tax write off won't equal the investment. They'll take a (huge) loss on it. Using it as a tax write off lessons the loss and locks it away. But since it's new ownership "they" didn't spend the money on it, the previous ownership did, and since the new ownership decided it doesn't jive with their business plan, this is how they decided to proceed.
 
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