Just looking at the slate that Warner Bros. has for next year, it's quite interesting. On paper, it's a good slate with plenty of movies that have a chance to be successful, but it will be primarily up to general audiences if they care to see any of them. Out of everything they're releasing though, I feel like Dune: Part Two is the only one that really is guaranteed to be a massive hit. The rest (especially the ones based on IP) are huge question marks. We'll see what happens, but for the sake of movie theaters and the industry as a whole, I sincerely hope all of these films can find success. Also, while I'm still glad that Zaslav is prioritizing theatrical, he's really trying to make himself look even worse now than in 2022. I'm not gonna act like Coyote vs. Acme would've been a massive hit theatrically, but Zaslav making that decision after it was mostly complete and doing that to a movie that's attached to one of their most iconic franchises (Looney Tunes), that's really scummy.
Pretty much. My only sympathy is that he walked into a situation where his predecessor had made a bunch of (arguably) mediocre streaming-only movies back when that was what Wall Street was telling everyone to do, so then he had to either release mid-product into theaters, spend even more money on making them theatrically viable or take the unprecedented step of shelving them. I'd have just released them and let the fates decide, but it's not my money.
Just looking at the slate that Warner Bros. has for next year, it's quite interesting. On paper, it's a good slate with plenty of movies that have a chance to be successful, but it will be primarily up to general audiences if they care to see any of them. Out of everything they're releasing though, I feel like Dune: Part Two is the only one that really is guaranteed to be a massive hit. The rest (especially the ones based on IP) are huge question marks. We'll see what happens, but for the sake of movie theaters and the industry as a whole, I sincerely hope all of these films can find success. Also, while I'm still glad that Zaslav is prioritizing theatrical, he's really trying to make himself look even worse now than in 2022. I'm not gonna act like Coyote vs. Acme would've been a massive hit theatrically, but Zaslav making that decision after it was mostly complete and doing that to a movie that's attached to one of their most iconic franchises (Looney Tunes), that's really scummy.
Pretty much. My only sympathy is that he walked into a situation where his predecessor had made a bunch of (arguably) mediocre streaming-only movies back when that was what Wall Street was telling everyone to do, so then he had to either release mid-product into theaters, spend even more money on making them theatrically viable or take the unprecedented step of shelving them. I'd have just released them and let the fates decide, but it's not my money.