It would seem that they decided that the juice wasn’t actually worth the squeeze after all. Moral of the story: don’t give your Legal Department a hunting license. They don’t always make decisions that are in the best long-term PR interests of your company.
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Warner Bros. has fan film THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM pulled from YouTube.
Warner Bros desperate to get Jackson, Nolan back.
Not the same kind of desperate, though. Warner Bros executives were only desperate enough to send the CEOs to see Peter Jackson in person in New Zealand (where I hope Jackson received them in his full-scale mockup of Edoras’s throne room) to talk about him doing more LotR flicks. That’s fairly desperate, sure. But how desperate are they to get Christopher Nolan back?
This desperate: “Inside sources at the studio say that “the director received a seven-figure royalty check from Warner Bros. within the past eight months. The payment was tied to his 2020 film Tenet.” …You only pay millions of dollars to start the groveling process when you’re really, really desperate. I still suggest Nolan should give Zack Snyder a call. See if he has any good ideas for suitable public humiliations, and all that.
Warner Bros acquires mining permits for Middle Earth.
Whether or not it’s a strip mining operation remains to be seen.
Continue reading Warner Bros acquires mining permits for Middle Earth.On a Thursday earnings call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that newly-installed studio leaders Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy have brokered a deal to make “multiple” films based on the beloved J. R. R. Tolkien books. The projects will be developed through WB label New Line Cinema. The first “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, helmed by Peter Jackson, grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide; Jackson’s follow-up trilogy based on Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” matched those grosses.
Welp, they’re going all-in on THE FLASH.
Somebody online called this ‘the definition of the sunk cost fallacy,’ and I can see the point.
Tweet of the Day, Counterpoint On The BATGIRL Thing edition.
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor: WB to axe SUPERGIRL?
Such are the rumors.
Continue reading Let the Bodies Hit the Floor: WB to axe SUPERGIRL?According to a recent report from Rolling Stone, the previously announced Supergirl film is also unlikely to move forward at the studio. The film has been in development, and Sasha Calle, who is also set to appear as Supergirl in the upcoming movie The Flash, was set to star. Her appearance in The Flash was meant to introduce the character before her solo film.
Warner Bros. Making a Space Invaders video game. …Come closer, Warner Bros.
From GeekTyrant: “Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have started developing a Space Invaders sci-fi action film project that will be based on the classic 1978 arcade game from Taito. “
So, Warner Bros. Come closer.
No, closer.
…NO. Bad movie company! BAD! No biscuit!
Warner Bros greenlights horror Aquaman-spinoff “The Trench.”
It’s Mythos time, boychik:
Continue reading Warner Bros greenlights horror Aquaman-spinoff “The Trench.”Warners has hired newbie scribes Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald to pen a horror-tinged script centered on the Trench, the deadly amphibious creatures seen attacking the hero and his love, Mera, in Aquaman.
Wan and Peter Safran will produce the project, titled The Trench, which would be much more modestly budgeted than the normal DC superhero tentpole.
(H/T: Geektyrant)
Warner Bros drops them some Joker camera tests.
Repost from #toddphillips1:
Camera test (w/ sound). Joker. pic.twitter.com/R9W2QqKwNS— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) September 21, 2018
Continue reading Warner Bros drops them some Joker camera tests.