Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-21 day agoBrendan Fraser Says ‘Batgirl’ Cancellation Is an Example of Movies Being ‘Commodified’ in Hollywood: ‘It’s More Valuable to Burn it Down and Get the Insurance’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1295file-text
arrow-up1295external-linkBrendan Fraser Says ‘Batgirl’ Cancellation Is an Example of Movies Being ‘Commodified’ in Hollywood: ‘It’s More Valuable to Burn it Down and Get the Insurance’variety.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarescops@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 day agoThey still had to launch the play to get it to flop and collect the insurance. I feel like that’s an important distinction here. We never even got to see if the movie had any redeeming value before WB canned it.
minus-squareCubitOom@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-220 hours agoIts because they didn’t want to fail at flopping like they did in the producers
minus-squarerozodru@pie.andmc.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoIt’s telling that out of all the DC slop WB was ok with releasing THIS film they were like “no, not this one” so it must have been especially bad.
They still had to launch the play to get it to flop and collect the insurance. I feel like that’s an important distinction here. We never even got to see if the movie had any redeeming value before WB canned it.
Its because they didn’t want to fail at flopping like they did in the producers
It’s telling that out of all the DC slop WB was ok with releasing THIS film they were like “no, not this one” so it must have been especially bad.