#discover warner bros

[ismellpestilence]

It isn't enough for a show to be good. It always has to be more. More growth. More popularity. More time trending on social media. More money raked in for the studio.

I actually can't keep going through this. I can't keep losing shows like this, especially not shows that only needed one more season. There's hardly any point in getting invested in new shows. It's not worth the risk getting attached only for it to be killed a few months later.

[thepeoplesmovies]

David Thewlis Set To Star In Sherlock Holmes & Daughter Series

Needing a Sherlock Holmes fix? Warner Bros. Discovery will have a series for you. Today they announced the original new crime thriller series Sherlock & Daughter. The brand-new drama stars BAFTA Award-nominated actor David Thewlis (Fargo, Landscapers, The Artful Dodger) as the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and will air on streaming service discovery+ in the UK and Ireland later this…

[downthetubes]

Blu-ray Babylon 5: The Complete Series release date announced

Great news for fans of J. Michael Straczynski’s groundbreaking SF saga, on both sides of the Atlantic

Marking the 30th anniversary of the show’s debut, Warner Bros. Discover Home Entertainment will release Babylon 5: The Complete Series (1994–1998) on 5th December 2023 on Blu-ray for the first time ever, available to preorder now from AmazonUK (Region 2). The release will present all 110 original episodes of the American space opera television series, created by writer and producer J. Michael…

[graphicpolicy]

Around the Tubes

Some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day #comics #comicbooks

It’s a new week! We’ve got a lot coming at you after a busy weekend at Baltimore Comic Con and SPX! We’ll kick it off with some comic news and reviews you might have missed! CBR – Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Vows To Fight To End the Hollywood Strikes – When it looks like you’re about to lose a lot of money, of course you are. How to Love Comics – What Are Marvel Epic Collections And…

[itswalky]

So did your parents ever explain why you shouldn't get involved in anyhting potentially occult or supernatural? Or why the focus was on stuff like Dungeons and Dragons or Harry Potter and not characters who predated them like Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate?

Most of this question can be answered by noting that most of these examples were irrelevant to my childhood either by How Old I Am or I Didn't Know They Existed.

Harry Potter didn't exist until I was in college! I remember the day, while I was employed at the Warner Bros Studio Store during art school, that the managers had a meeting and told us that The Next Big Thing, By Corporate Decree, would be something called Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone. And we would sell it. And we would have exclusive rights to sell it. And by god it was going to be the big thing or fucking else.

So that didn't come up much with my parents, no.

Also, I'm not sure I knew who Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate were until I was in my twenties. They wouldn't be an example I'd know to bring up.

And so the focus was on contemporary things I knew about, like He-Man or Disney's Gummi Bears or the Black Cauldron PC game I got for my birthday and got to play like five minutes of before it was discovered that there was magic in this.

(five minutes was enough to get frustrated and stuck in it, anyway, so not the hugest loss)

I got to watch Star Wars, which ""promoted eastern religion," because "it was good."

so

[doodleempireofsticks]

Okay SO

The trailer for the Minecraft movie sucks BUT it has given me an idea

I liked Minecraft Story Mode as a kid and obviously this account is mostly Animation Vs Minecraft fanart so I've been seeing a lot of the "MCSM deserves an apology/watch AVM instead posts" and I had an idea.

What if when the movie comes out (April 2025 I think) we have a watch party of various, much bette, Minecraft content.

Like a playlist of various letsplays and animations and fan content that everyone watches at the same time, maybe spread across a few days so it's only a couple hours each day and anyone can join in.

So people could recommend all the pieces of Minecraft media they like and we can collectively (however many people join in, I'm not pretending I have a large following lol) enjoy and discover new Minecraft content, instead of being disappointed by the movie and giving Warner Bros money for putting in zero effort.

I just wanted to check if people were interested so like, even if you have never seen AVM, if you're a Minecraft fan or a fan of some Minecraft content pls vote in this poll (no pressure though ofc, this is just an idea)

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

06/11/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Rhys Darby; Nathan Foad; Vico Ortiz; Rachel House; AdoptOurCrew Message; Pink News; #MoonGlowingWithPride; TellTaleTV Round 3 Reminder; Watch Parties; Articles; Fan Spotlight; LoveNotes; Daily Darby/Tonight's Taika;

== Rhys Darby ==

More pictures of Rhysie outside and in the hot tub! Is that an OFMD hat I spy?

Source: Rhys Darby's Instagram Stories

== Nathan Foad ==

Nathan posting cute pics on IG again.

Source: Nathan Foad's Instagram

== Vico Ortiz ==

Vico is attending Dyke Day LA!

Source: Vico Ortiz Instagram Stories

== Rachel House ==

More pics with Rachel at the Sydney Film Festival!

Source: sarussellwords Instagram

== Adopt Our Crew ==

Did you know it's the 6 month anniversary of the first cancellation? Our AOC Crewmates sent out a lovely message.

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Instagram

== Pink News ==

Have I mentioned how much I love Pink News lately?

Source: Pink News Twitter

== #MoonglowingWithPride ==

Our absolutely stellar crewmate @xray-vex is leading a new way to celebrate queer joy, community and healing! Please join him and other crewmates on June 20-21, 2024 for the OFMD Full Moon & Solstice Event! See more information below!

Source: @xray-vex's Twitter

== Tell Tale TV Round 3 ==

Round 3 is up! This is the final round! Thank you to @ofmd-ann for these adorable graphic reminders! Please vote here and often!

Source: OFMD-ANN's Tumblr

== Watch Parties ==

Good Omens Season 2

Dates: June 10-14, 2024

Times: 3:30 pm PT, 6:30 pm ET, 11:30 pm BST

Episodes: M-Th: 1-4, F: 5-6

Where: RhysDarbyFaction Discord Server

Need access? Reach out to @gentlebeardsbarngrill on tumblr or @aspirantabby42 on twitter.

== Articles ==

== Fan Spotlight ==

== Cast Cards ==

Tonight's Cast Card from our sweet @melvisik is Eliza Jiménez Cossio, one of our writers!

Source: @melvisik's Twitter

== OFMD Colouring Pages ==

More Our Flag Means Pride pages from @patchworkpiratebear and distributed by @adoptourcrew! I'm very excited to colour in the Rosy Maple Moth!

Source: AdoptOurCrew and PatchworkPirateBear's Tumblr

== Love Notes ==

Happy Taika Tuesday Lovelies. I gotta be honest, I'm not sure what to say tonight. I'm feeling very raw about a lot of different things, fandom related and home related. So tonight, what I'd like to do is share with you a mindfulness poem by Thich Nhat Hahn called "The River of Feelings".

" There is a river of feelings within us, and every drop of water in that river is a feeling. To observe our feelings, we sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it flows by. It may be pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. One feeling lasts for a while, and then another comes. Meditation is to be aware of each feeling. Recognize it, smile to it, look deeply into it, and embrace it with all our heart. If we continue to look deeply, we discover the true nature of that feeling, and we are no longer afraid, even of a painful feeling. We know we are more than our feelings, and we are able to embrace each feeling and take good care of it. - Thich Nhat Hanh"

Our feelings are very important lovelies. Bad feelings are just as important as good ones. The more we understand them, the more we understand ourselves and others as well. Please be kind to yourself tonight crew. Tomorrow is a new day.

Img Source: The Latest Kate's Tumblr

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Tonight's theme is balls. Gifs courtesy of the brilliant @ofmd-ann and @neverswungonswingingstars

[gothicprep]

i'm currently reading a book called "you are what you watch" by walt hickey. the chapter i'm on right now is called "commerce and culture and commence", and what hickey is describing in this chapter is something similar to a flywheel – the idea of a book or movie or tv show leading to people buying merchandise, which in turn leads to them going to amusement parks. he's zeroing in on a very specific part of pop history that i had completely forgotten about, the warner brothers' studio store. it's discussed as the missing link between the entire history of pop culture before the 90s and everything that's followed since then.

hickey explains that, before the wb store was innovated, pop culture merch was for children. tv shows about batman, for example, didn't lead to adults wearing shirts about batman. it was all targets to kids. disney locked in on this idea of connecting merchandise to films very, very early. the empire strikes back was the one that really capitalized on this in particular, but star wars in general realized again that you can sell toys to children based on the thing they'd seen. but the thing that warner bros studio store did is that they tapped into the aging boomer audience that had money and were nostalgic. bear in mind, this is 1991, so boomers at the time would have been in their 30s and 40s.

after batman came out in 1989, it was the biggest movie of the year, so wb produced a little bit of adult merch for it, and it sold out almost immediately. then they quickly realized that there was a big demand for batman pins and memorabilia from those boomers. this wasn't just nerds in fandom spaces, these were genuinely mainstream individuals. again, this was the biggest movie of the year.

if you look at the warner brother's library, it's not the cuddly mickey mouse stuff. it's the snarky looney tunes stuff. so wb thinks to themselves, "hey, we're in the 90s. this could work." hearing the people interviewed in the book talk about the development of the store is so interesting because they immediately realized where their strengths were – ignore kids entirely, try to poach people from department stores and design studios instead, and make the kinds of things that people will want to actually buy, except it has daffy duck on it.

what really jumped out to me was that the pop culture artifacts became representations of identity, and wb basically discovered this accidentally. there's a moment in the book about the specific looney tunes characters being targeted to specific groups of people. the consumers didn't want all the looney tunes on their shirt, they wanted one specific character. they had no idea this identity component even existed until they started selling stuff.

the architect of this was a woman named linda postell, who's interviewed in the book. she mentions that, early on in development, all the men who would buy foghorn leghorn stuff would all basically look the same. if they bought harley davidson, they were a taz guy. etc.

there are a lot of looney tunes characters, and wb mined their archives to appeal to more people. before the store concept, marvin the martin was only in about 20 minutes of the cartoon in the aggregate. they slap him on merch, and suddenly, the IT guy has him on his mug because he's persnickety. within a few years, marvin is refereeing space jam. the people who pulled this off were fucking geniuses. you're not only evoking memories of someone's childhood, you're doing it in a way that articulates something about that person in the process.

i'm a millennial, and my generation sorted itself into one of four hogwarts houses. we had that burst of post-apocalyptic fiction that required people to sort themselves into one of five classes. there was star wars and their weird "are you the light side, or the dark side?" campaign. this strategy has been employed by people in the entertainment industry where content design is all a downstream of this.

this next bit isn't in the book at all. it's just my hot take. but i feel like this has been actively destructive to the world of culture criticism, consumption, and enjoyment in very real and specific ways. in what we see in so many of the arguments over things like star wars, there's this thing that's like "star wars is my identity, so i have to defend what i believe to be the correct version of star wars". or, "marvel is my identity, and i can't stand dc people". or vice versa, "dc is my identity. i love zack snyder movies. these marvel movies are trash. put them on the curb". the adaptation of culture around this tribal behavior, imo, has made it very difficult to actually make culture that's resonant while also not allowing itself to give in to that competitive nature.

if you were to consider the release pattern and the mentality around the snyder cut, it becomes difficult to disentangle it from this. there was an underdog perception around it, despite the fact that these are fans of one of the two biggest comic book universes in the world. "i have been wronged. i have ought to be compensated for this in the form of a film made to my specifications."

there are elements of it that, ugh, good isn't the word... i guess allowed us to understand a deeper reason why some things resonate with us and others don't. with sitcoms and relating to a specific character, rather than the entire ensemble cast, is sometimes how people get clued in on a specific show. that was the case with friends and cheers. having on-ramps into pop culture for different people isn't the worst thing in the world. and understanding that people do take this seriously enough that they can articulate an element of their identity through it is not bad.

that being said, these are publicly traded corporations that have a fiduciary obligation to shareholders to maximize value. as a result, sometimes we're gonna get things that play off this instinct in a way that are unhealthy for pop culture and culture as a whole.

so, impressive as the development process was was, they were cracking something open there in the desert that cannot be put back.

[ducktracy]

CATCHING UP ON ASKS AND MEANING IT THIS TIME. i have dates on so you can all properly shame me for my negligence. BUT FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT

YEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! there are talks of the LTC movie BEING ON THE BIG SCREEN AND MAAAAAAAAAN. i don’t know if it’s a limited release or worldwide or WHAT, details are all up in the air, especially since i’m not sure about the specifics regarding if this movie has a proper distributor or not. BUT. I AM SO EXCITED EITHER WAY. this movie has been a large driving force of motivation for me to keep on keepin’ on so to say i’m excited is the understatement of the year

while we’re on the subject, here’s a poster for the movie that was released for 2022 comic con i only just discovered within the past few months ISN’T IT SO CUTE. I’M SO EXCITED. GAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

(ALSO SHOUTOUT TO PROTRUDING HAIRS ANON THAT GOT SLIPPED IN HERE. the ask is still relevant because the Daffy in my holiday card i drew the other is, of course, a duck with protruding hairs. you will never catch a bald duck in the vicinity of ducktracy.tumblr.com.edu.gov.net)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Return to Oz (1985, Walter Murch)

02/02/2024

Return to Oz is a 1985 film directed by Walter Murch, an unofficial sequel to the famous film The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming and produced by MGM in 1939. The film earned an Oscar nomination for best special effects.

Several months have passed since the events of The Wizard of Oz, and Dorothy Gale is melancholy because she continues to do nothing but dream of her magical adventure, and that Uncle Henry and Aunt Emma don't believe her.

Later, Dorothy discovers to her horror the Yellow Brick Path in ruins and, running along it with Billina, finds the Emerald City, Grey, desert, largely destroyed and with petrified inhabitants, including the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.

The film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the collaboration of MGM, or Warner Bros., the studio that currently holds the rights to the 1939 film.

The film's screenplay is based on L. Frank Baum's second and third novels, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, both sequels to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

George Lucas, Murch's friend and colle8, had to personally intervene, guaranteeing the studio that he would act as executive producer or even director in case of problems.

The soundtrack of the film was entrusted to the composer and musical writer David Shire, also know for numerous TV soundtracks, theater musical and for many films including Saturday Night Fever. The entire musical sequence from Dorothy's Theme to the Rag March of the final scene is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.

The Italian dubbing of the film was directed by Renato Izzo, Gruppo Trenta.

On home video, in Italy, the film was released in VHS format by Walt Disney Home Video in 1986. The DVD was released in 2013 in the Disney Family Classics series.

Writer Joan D. Vinge adapted the film's screenplay into a novel.

[brian-in-finance]

Image: Warner Bros / Universal Pictures / A24

51 Most Anticipated Movie Performances of 2024, Ranked: Lady Gaga, Pedro Pascal and More

After a wild year that brought us an atomic bomb creator, a toy doll coming to life and an Indigenous woman’s fight for survival against her white husband, 2024 promises to be another exhilarating one with a slew of highly anticipated films and performances set to grace the silver screen.

We’re going to have performers from long-awaited sequels (Joaquin Phoenix in “Joker: Folie à Deux”) and prequels (Anya Taylor-Joy in “Furiosa”), to anticipated biopics (Angelina Jolie in “Maria”) and original stories and characters (André Holland in “The Actor”). There are also performers from long-awaited adaptations (Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in “Wicked: Part One”) and ones from movies that have been finished shooting for quite some time (Mark Rylance in “The Way of the Wind”). Either way, the lineup is diverse and promising, and likely to cater to a wide array of cinephile’s tastes.

To share in the gleeful excitement of some of these titles, Variety ranks the 51 most anticipated performances of 2024. Read below.

Note: All release dates, titles and distributors are subject to change. To cover the greatest number of upcoming performances, only one actor is mentioned from any given movie.

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Remember to tap or click the link ⬆️ to discover the rest of Variety’s most anticipated movie performances of 2024.

[the-magiarcheologist]

Hogwarts Legacy concept art

Don't know if anyone has shared these yet:

And individual porfolios of many artitst who worked on the game (go look at their full profile to find all the concept art for HL)

Intersting tidbit that can be found in there 👀 (maybe they can still offer that possibility for the sequel??)

Looking at the concept art for the cairn dungeons and the ancient magic dungeons (by Ben Simonsen) it also looks like thay had thought of much more elaborate puzzles within the dungeons and it hurst my heart that they cut that 😥 I wanted challenging puzzles to solve!

[brokehorrorfan]

The ghost with the most is back in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, hitting theaters September 6 via Warner Bros. I'm giving readers in the Boston area the opportunity to see the film early - and for free!

Broke Horror Fan is sponsoring an advance screening of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at AMC Boston Common in Boston, MA on Tuesday, September 3, at 7:00pm.

Click here to get your passes while supplies last. Seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed, so be sure to arrive early! Attendees are encouraged to dress up in gothic glam or afterlife attire.

Tim Burton returns to direct a sequel to his 1988 classic from a script by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe star.

After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

[the-desolated-quill]

How do you say your sequel is creatively bankrupt without saying your sequel is creatively bankrupt? 🤣

Yes, so not only is the Joker sequel that nobody needed or asked for going to be a musical, it’s going to be a jukebox musical. The worst kind of musical. Because why bother writing original songs when you can just sing other people’s?

Also Joker 2 reportedly has a budget of $200 million, which is ever so slightly more than the first film’s $60 million budget. Why the massive budget increase? Fuck knows. It’s especially stupid considering the low budget is one of the reasons why the first film made such a MASSIVE profit. But then again this is Warner Bros we’re talking about here. Ever since the merger with Discovery, they haven’t exactly been concerned with how much money they’re wasting on objectively terrible ideas. David Zaslav is probably surprised to wake up every morning and discover he’s got a pair of feet.

[fly-pow-bye]

First, there was Batgirl. Then, there was Scoob Holiday Haunt. Now, it's Coyote vs. Acme, a Roger Rabbit-styled take on a New Yorker article about Wile E Coyote suing Acme, that is getting written off for taxes. Originally supposed to be released in July only to be replaced with Barbie, now this finished film can only be seen in the alternate universe where people are reminiscing about Coyotenheimer.

This film was considered finished, it was screened to test audiences to their approval, and all of the hard work made for this film will now rot in a Warner Bros vault. This was all to get 30 million dollars on a movie that cost 70 million to make. With a choice to either release the movie in theaters, release the movie straight to Max, or sell the movie to another streaming service, the Zaslav-run Warner Bros Discover decided to lose 40 million and make sure nobody gets to see it.

There was a nice crew reel showing a bunch of behind the scenes footage of this now unreleased movie, but it turns out having a movie written off for taxes does not mean Warner Bros Discovery cannot copyright strike it down.

[howardhawkshollywood]

The back of this publicity still reads

STAR TO BE?

Hollywood's better prognosticators have it that Martha Vickers, soon to be seen with Humphrey Bogart in Warner Bros.' romantic thriller, "The Big Sleep," is right at stardom's glittering door as the result of her performance opposite the bogey man. She a native of Ann Arbor, Mich., but boasts more home towns than the average traveling salesman, having attended schools in Chicago, Miami, St. Petersburg, Fla., Detroit, and Dallas, Tex. She was a model before being discovered for films. Vital statistics -- 5'4", 108 pounds, light brown hair and blue green eyes. She isn't married, or engaged.

From Warner Bros.' Studio

Burbank, California

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