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17 May

The Warner-Discovery Merger Proves That Big Is Never Big Enough in the Streaming World

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Back in 2018, telecom giant AT&T completed its $85 billion acquisition of entertainment conglomerate Time Warner, creating a new entity known as WarnerMedia. WarnerMedia immediately became one of the largest entertainment providers in the world, generating $30 billion in revenue per year and hosting more than 40 million subscribers on streaming service HBO Max. Now, just three years later, AT&T has apparently decided that WarnerMedia just wasn’t big enough. On Monday, executives at AT&T Inc. and Discovery, Inc. announced a deal that would combine WarnerMedia and Discovery into one entity that will be able to compete with the likes of…

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11 May

Will an “Aggressively Anti-Snyder” Warner Stop the SnyderVerse?

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Say what you will about Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but the director’s streaming superhero redux managed to branch the DC Extended Universe movies off into its own tangential timeline, which has since been dubbed the “SnyderVerse” by the fandom that now passionately hashtags for its restoration in the studio’s main continuity. While recent revelations about Snyder’s rough relationship with Warner make this restoration unlikely, the director isn’t entirely shutting the door on such a notion. We know that Snyder, once the driving creative force behind Warner’s DCEU, was already the odd man out with the studio by the time a…

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05 Mar

Space Jam 2: LeBron James Will Encounter Batman, King Kong, and Other Warner Universes

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LeBron James, currently the greatest basketball player on the planet (all differing opinions, feel free to be mad and wrong in the comments), is gearing up for the release of his highly anticipated upcoming film Space Jam: A New Legacy. James recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about his team-up with the Looney Tunes, a follow-up to the massively successful original Space Jam, which starred then-greatest player Michael Jordan and earned $230 million at the box office, spawned a billion-dollar merchandise empire, and inspired a soundtrack that went six times platinum. In an interview with the magazine, James, director Malcom D.…

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05 Jan

Zack Snyder’s Vicious Wonder Woman Photo Reflects Warner’s Early Internal War

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While the bellwether day-and-date HBO Max release of Wonder Woman 1984 left audiences divided, there can be no question that the sequel’s storyline reinforced writer/director Patty Jenkins’s vision for Gal Gadot’s version of the DC Comics heroine, reflecting ideals of compassion and mercy with pathological nuance. However, shockingly vicious imagery from an early concept photo displayed by the character’s first directorial steward, Zack Snyder, presents a stark contrast to her current ethos of unbridled optimism. The photo (see the article’s main image,) was prominently showcased by Snyder in the background of a virtual interview with ComicBook Debate, in which the…

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15 Dec

Zack Snyder Weighs in on “Knee Jerk” Warner Bros. 2021 Release Reveal

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A couple of weeks back, Warner Bros. rocked the movie industry by unexpectedly announcing that they planned to stream all their big forthcoming releases on HBO Max on the same day the films debuted in theaters, starting with DC’s delayed blockbuster Wonder Woman 1984 on Christmas Day. With all 17 of the studio’s 2021 movies suddenly heading to HBO Max, everyone from outraged US theater owners to Tenet helmer Christopher Nolan reacted to the move, which was not mirrored by rival studio Disney during their recent Investors Day. Now, Justice League director Zack Snyder, who has recently been welcomed back…

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08 Dec

HBO Max Backlash: Christopher Nolan and More Filmmakers Rip Warner Bros. Over Streaming Release

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Last week’s earthshaking decision by WarnerMedia to launch the entire Warner Bros. Pictures 2021 film slate on its new streaming service, HBO Max, concurrent with a theatrical release, was seen by the industry and the public as the game-changing move that it was clearly meant to be. But the strategy is already garnering a fierce backlash from at least one of the studio’s top filmmakers, as well as a production company that has a major financial stake in several of Warner’s upcoming blockbusters. Director Christopher Nolan, who has possibly made more money for Warner Bros. in the past 20 years…

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04 Dec

HBO Max Release Schedule for Warner Bros. Movies

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The future is here. Warner Bros. changed the movie industry, likely forever, when it announced this week that its entire film slate for the next 12 months will follow Wonder Woman 1984 to HBO Max. More than just a shot in the arm for the new streaming service, this obliterates the theatrical window as we know it, with every one of WB’s next 18 films opening concurrently on streaming and in theaters. This day and date “hybrid” strategy, which mixes online with theatrical distribution, has been described by WarnerMedia as a “unique one-year plan,” although many are dubious, likely including…

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04 Dec

Warner Bros. and HBO Max 2021 Film Slate Destroys Theatrical Window

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When Warner Bros. made the historic decision to put Wonder Woman 1984, a blockbuster superhero movie and their biggest film slated for 2020, on HBO Max the same day as its Christmas premiere, we wondered if it would “end theatrical releases as we know them.” We don’t have to wonder anymore. In a significant transition to a day-and-date model that makes Wonder Woman’s break of the theatrical window look like a small crack, WB announced Thursday that its entire film slate for 2021 was going to premiere on HBO Max. The move will put all 17 of WB’s scheduled 2021…

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06 Nov

Johnny Depp Isn’t the Only Problem Warner Bros. Has With Fantastic Beasts

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At this point, Johnny Depp is only one of the ethical/PR issues the Fantastic Beasts franchise has, but he is apparently the easiest one to address. Depp has been “asked to resign” from the Harry Potter prequel series, according to the actor’s recent Instagram post. Though neither Depp nor Warner Bros. has given a specific reason for the actor’s departure, it comes just days after a U.K. court’s ruling that British tabloid The Sun was not committing libel when they described Depp as “a wife-beater” in 2018. “Johnny Depp will depart the Fantastic Beasts franchise. We thank Johnny for his…

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07 Oct

Minecraft Movie Release Date Delayed Indefinitely by Warner Bros.

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Production of the Minecraft movie has encountered another setback as Warner Bros. delays nearly all of their major upcoming productions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, the Minecraft movie was recently scheduled to be released on March 4, 2022. Now, though, Warner Bros. confirms that the movie’s release has been pushed back from that date and that no updated release date for the project is available at this time. While it’s entirely possible that WB is just trying to find the best way to squeeze Minecraft into their now-chaotic production schedule, we wouldn’t be surprised…

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16 Sep

Sci-Fi Explosion: Join Den of Geek and Warner Archive for Virtual Fun, Trivia, and Prizes

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We’re hosting another Sci-Fi Explosion in conjunction with the Warner Archive Collection, here’s the details! Far beyond the usual sci-fi space stories there lies a strange galactic outpost where inexplicable Star Wars-themed music videos rub shoulders with cosmic cartoons, weird robot PSAs and other forgotten orphans of genre insanity. This is the domain of Sci-Fi Explosion. For the past six years I have been bringing this cosmic cabaret of craziness to conventions and other genre events throughout the East Coast, and I’m beyond pleased to be teaming up with Den of Geek this Friday night for a celebration of the…

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14 Sep

Link Tank: Warner Bros. Declines to Share Detailed Tenet Box Office Numbers

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After a less-than-ideal premiere weekend, Warner Bros is declining to share detailed box office numbers for Tenet. “Warner Bros. continues to make interesting decisions around the release and distribution of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, this time breaking the generally agreed-upon norms of how box office profits are reported. Apparently, other studios in the business are not happy.” Read more at Gizmodo. Ever wonder why your dog digs and scratches at its bed before going to lay down? Here’s the behavioral science explained. “It’s easy to understand why your dog wants to dig a hole in your backyard. Watching them attempt the…

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22 May

Suicide Squad Ayer Cut on the Way? Warner Bros Owner Teases “Anything Is Possible”

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What happens when a dog finally catches a car? We’re set to find out next year, when HBO Max finally debuts Zack Snyder’s Justice League as it was originally meant to be seen. Reports indicate that this version of the project, which attempted to bring DC superheroes Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg together for a big screen live-action adventure back in 2017, will either manifest as a four-hour film, or as a six-part series on the streaming service. “It will be an entirely new thing, and, especially talking to those who have seen the released movie, a…

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05 May

Demolition Man 2 in the Works at Warner, Says Sylvester Stallone

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Demolition Man 2 may yet break free from its proverbial project cryoprison. That’s because Sylvester Stallone, who headlined the cheeky 1993 action/sci-fi cult classic, has dropped the intriguing news that the highly-hypothesized sequel is on the docket over at Warner Bros. Stallone made the revelatory statement in a rather casual manner during a Q&A on his Instagram, answering a fan’s question about a potential Demolition Man sequel with a surprisingly potent—albeit brief—reveal of the project’s apparent position on the studio’s backlog. As Stallone answers of the sequel prospects: “I think it’s coming. We’re working on it right now with Warner…

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