swung the ax at six other animation projects, according to Diversity. One of all Batman: Caped Crusadera series of films directed by JJ Abrams, Matt Reeves and Batman: Animated Series co-creator Bruce Timm. The show, that’s is the spiritual successor to Timm’s ’90s classic series.
Unlike some of the other shows and movies that HBO Max has boxed in recent weeks, these projects are still in production. The production teams will be looking for another home for them. Other projects in this wave of cancellations are Merry Little Batman, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Tunes Musical, Did I Do That to The Holidays: A Steve Urkel Story and The wonderful world of Gumball: The Movie.
HBO Max is downgrading content for kids and families. Last week, it dozens of shows, including several animated series. It also in an apparent move to save on licensing fees.
On top of that, HBO Max canceled exclusive movies Bat girl and Scoob !: Holiday Haunting and removed other notable original shows and movies in recent weeks (one of Bat girldirector of to record some scenes from the movie on his smartphone but to no avail). Furthermore, the streaming service and HBO siblings from home programming this month.
Parent Warner Bros. Discovery will remove certain shows and movies from HBO Max before merging the service with Discovery+ next year. “As we work towards bringing our content catalogs together under one platform, we will be making changes to the content offering available on both HBO Max and Discovery+,” it said.
The decisions to cancel and remove content come amid Warner Bros.’s efforts to cut costs at the border. Discovery, formed after WarnerMedia and Discovery’s merger this early year. CEO David Zaslav and his team are trying to cut $3 billion, but the moves have hit the company’s share price, which has fallen 25% since Aug. 4. Valuations of the company has decreased by billions of dong compared to the previous month. definitely looks good, though.
Warner Bros Discovery wants to save $3 billion by deleting series, movies, killing animation employee health fund payments, laying off more women and minorities, and their rewards gone $5.5 billion in market capitalization in one month and alienating top talent. You did a great job. pic.twitter.com/QuocGhW3N6
– Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) August 23, 2022
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