The MCU is becoming like the comics in that it certainly doesn’t hurt to see everything in order to understand what’s going on, continuity-wise... but you don’t have to. I mean, She-Hulk reintroduces Tim Roth’s Blonsky, who, apart from a cameo in Shang-Chi that casual viewers probably didn’t understand, hasn’t been in…

The Roger Corman FF movie, however, was a special case: Corman knew the rights he had to the FF franchise were expiring and also knew there was interest in the property. He hurriedly -and very cheaply- made his FF film for which it is my understanding he was subsequently paid off for it and it was then shelved.

For all we know now -and again assuming Variety is correct- the Batgirl film’s quality is completely irrelevant, but its value as a tax write off proved far more important.

You wonder just how bad the overall product must have looked and, given the money spent, cannot imagine it being that bad, right? I mean some pretty terrible films have been released in spite of everything, no?

Maybe somebody should have put a stop to Cats being released. And honestly $90m while sizeable to you and me isn’t that much for a theatrical release (which would need an additional $90M for marketing)......I don’t even know where it scales for a streaming release

It would be ironic if Batgirl turned out to be okay, not a classic but not a disaster either. If I was involved with the movie I’d probably be really pissed off right about now.

At this rate, I fully expect Miller to be outed for running a crypto currency death cult by December.

That kind of reminds me of the rock star in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books who’s legally dead for tax purposes.

Makes sense, Zaslov’s combined company is highly leveraged, so he doesnt have to invest the finishing costs, AND he gets a tax break?

I just saw the Scoob news, but not the tax stuff. That... makes sense, unfortunately. sigh It really is looking like it’s just a way to “save” the most money, using whatever shady methods are required.

I basically treat the MCU like I treat the bulk of Star Wars.

I’m slightly willing to bet on the later possibility over the first, if only because yeah, 90  million and being almost done would be fairly unprecedented to junk a project. Not impossible to believe, but very very out there.

I’ll be damn curious to see what happens with The Flash. They may figure that the positive test screenings it has supposedly had are worth the risk of going all in on a movie starring Ezra Miller.

I am not convinced that the common movie goer is all that concerned about the inter movie connections. Thor 4 and DS2 both had sizeable numbers (Though the 2nd weeks drops were substantial). Thor 4 is only 30m off of Ragnarock, easily the best film in the series, and DS2 did nearly 1bn worldwide. Not signs that people…

Unless I’m mistaken, Batgirl was always going to be a streaming movie, not a theatrical release. My guess is that the studio looked at Netflix’s recent misfortunes with expensive, all-star, high-profile flops and decided that streaming movies weren’t the wave of the future everyone thought they would be during the…

“I feel like that’s what starting to weigh down the Marvel films. I’m seeing more and more people state online that they feel like watching the newer material feels like a chore because you’re almost expected to have at least some awareness of all the other stuff that came before.”

I guess WB never heard of “measure twice, cut once”!

Nope, lots more. Those were just some of the big ones. 

It happens more often than you’d imagine. There have been major productions with big stars that were permanently shut down due to disputes, like the original 1985 version of The Two Jakes and Broadway Brawler, a 1997 comedy starring Bruce Willis. Darren Aronofsky almost made The Fountain in 2002 with Brad Pitt and…

See, I think you are right about Zaslov being concerned about the state of the IP, but the sheer amount of cancellations at this point begins to come in contrast to that; Surely part of the point of HAVING that much IP is to USE it, as opposed to just cancelling everything.