#fuck zaslav

[hopeymchope]

[sweet-little-goldfish-stede]

I'm gonna fax zaslav a picture of the times square billboard

[toonsforkicks22]

#RELEASECOYOTEVSACME

Made this animatic while attending church (and yes I PRAYED that #CoyoteVsAcme gets saved)

Audio by voice actor Eric Bauza. The absolute demand, aggression, and sass he put into Daffy at the Annie Awards reminds me so much of Duck Amuck.

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

Of course WB Discovery would remove the show from their streaming service just as it’s about to reach a wider audience with the new movie.

Fuck Zaslav.

[alicethenobody]

Each book of Infinity Train is always made in response/parallel to the last one in some way. So I imagine for book 5 being about Amelia’s journey and everything it’d be like.

Book 4: HOLD ON to the one you love.

Book 5: LET GO of the one you love.

[roxyrondell]

Once again I’m thinking about the bs reasons they gave for cancelling OFMD. First they tried the whole tHe NuMbErS weren’t there. That got quickly debunked as patently false. All the numbers available were stellar. So the numbers they were talking about must be imaginary numbers. Some kind of math only execs can see. Then they tried the whole “We didn’t know how to market it because of the shock of violence” and the internet once again exploded. It was like they went from a bad excuse to one that was so dumb it was fucking insulting. Here’s the list of shows and movies on HBO that are more violent than OFMD.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

WONDERFUL NEWS, EVERYONE

[iamadequate1]

There is a graph going around Twitter about WBD's falling stock prices. If you go back a year, their stock prices have been in freefall the whole time save for a bump when the SAG strike ended. WBD/Max has no business being a streaming service, and they just keep failing.

Disney had a very bad 2023: massive bombs (movie and TV) with the MCU, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and attempts to emulate classic Disney fare. IPs just don't have a strength anymore, and bloated budgets exasperate the problem. Looking at WBD, embarrassing (and historically large) bombs with the DCEU, with Aquaman of all things being their biggest success (buoyed by Jason Momoa, not the IP). WBD had one big success, Barbie, and that was from Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, et al, who respected the IP instead of slapping the IP on any ole product and demanding money.

Remember Zaslav happily endorsed The Flash and put all the resources behind it just before it became a comedy show watching it bomb? He simply does not know what he's doing, even playing the numbers game and not caring about the artistic product. There were no projections showing The Flash would do any better than it did, but WBD pumped in an obscene marketing budget to not improve the outcome. And now he's trying to emulate Disney's run, perhaps trying to outdo it! Push massive amounts of money behind an IP that will severely underperform (Harry Potter, really?) and ignore the lessons of their biggest successes. If Barbie had been a lazy toy commercial, it would've bombed.

WBD has hit critical mass with their streaming subscriber numbers. They aren't going to have any massive influx of new subscribers, and they need to focus on subscriber retention and keeping their brand in good standing. Axing a flagship show that would be much cheaper to produce than any of these IP money pits is not good business. Just a few weeks ago, the studios were whining that no one wanted to pitch ideas to them. They feel entitled to all the creatives' work without treating them, or their user base, with any respect.

WBD has a show that is critically acclaimed, has streaming demand numbers that beat Star Wars and the MCU, has a massive fanbase, can lure thousands to conventions, has fans who will happily buy merch and will buy out unofficial merch (see: Target oranges mugs or the Old Navy oranges shirt), fans that make up the bulk of their social media interactions, fans that will make pilgrimages to stupid billboards, etc, and they toss it away to pump money into IPs, money that they will never make back.

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

All those missing scenes are destroying me. I'll fess up I was one of those people who grumbled a bit that Ed/Stede's relationship just wasn't doing it for me like it did in S1, it just felt like there was too much missing, not enough of those short adorable wholesome romantic moments full of little things that mean so much and show so much without even telling... I just couldn't understand at first, S1 proved the writers knew what they were doing, it was much too good to be just a fluke, an accidental success.

When the news about the slashed budget came out, the answer became clear, and those missing scenes just keep confirming it. We LITERALLY got robbed. We had amazing, dedicated writers who knew their shit and still got it, equally amazing and dedicated cast who just wanted to do their best, and they weren't allowed to deliver the story they wanted to deliver because of greedy clueless fucking top management.

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

David Zaslav being such a

cockbite

[hopeymchope]

Oh GOD the fiendish David Zaslav is rebooting Harry Potter with a new "extremely faithful" adaption of the seven books. J.K. TERFling is heavily involved, she's executive producing, and they've made a TEN-YEAR COMMITMENT already.

Five Rapid-Fire Thoughts I Had in Reaction to This News:

Fuck Zaslav. (Btw, did I mention that — after deleting half of HBO Max's original content — Zaslav has now announced a price hike to the newly christened "MAX" service? As if giving a shitload of money to the planet's most notable TERF wasn't enough fuckery. FUCK that fucking shitheel.)

See below.

3. All y'all who were like "Boycott Hogwart's Legacy or You're Automatically a Terrible Person" or whatever because Rowling was going to make like a 1% royalty off of that game had GODDAMN BETTER boycott HBO MAX (....uh, sorry, it's just "MAX" now, I keep forgetting bc that name sucks — "HBO MAX" wasn't all that good a name to begin with IMO, but now it's worse) from here on out. YES, I know it's harder to boycott an entire streaming service that may contain OTHER content you want, but c'mon now, just bootleg anything you want off MAX in the future. (I'll help! I will send you a link or whatever if you need assistance. Message me. It's cool.) Because this is going to make her SO MUCH MORE MONEY due to involving her FAR MORE DIRECTLY. FUCK. WHY. Why did they fucking do this.

4. There are so many things in the books that are either A) poorly explained workarounds for continuity/logic issues or B) extremely problematic that the movies were actually BETTER for ignoring them. Can't wait to see the scene where every single known Time-Turner gets accidentally broken shortly after Prisoner of Azkaban in order to ensure the characters can never use time travel to fix their problems again! SUPER excited for the plotline where Hermione has to learn that she's silly and wrong for trying to free slaves because the slaves are fucking happier being enslaved! OH BOY!

5. God, a ten-year production commitment UP FRONT. I hope they lose so much money on this stupid-ass project that they wind up dragging their feet to produce future seasons for so long that the contract runs out before they've gotten farther than like, the third novel, and then it just dies on the vine. Would be HILARIOUS.

[sweet-little-goldfish-stede]

A very unhappy 1 month anniversary of The Cancellation to WBD, may their stock continue to sink.🕯✨️🙏

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

Owen Dennis went from creating one of the best animated shows in decades to being the showrunner for an Among Us TV series because David Zaslav doesn't value animation.

I hate this timeline so fucking much.

[asm5129]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/our-flag-means-death-canceled-max-1235783469/

oh fuck ALL the way off. i mean look, at least it finished in a place that doesn’t feel like it has too many loose threads but still—

this thing was original, clever, fresh, unashamedly queer and extremely popular.

so of course it goes on the chopping block

[roxyrondell]

The first reason they tried to give for cancelling OFMD had me like

The second excuse they tried to give had me like

[ashleyishere24]

Best joke of the year right here