It was so close, but so far. 

Every movie director in Hollywood over the last 24 hours:

Warner Bros. responds:

Because Marvel understands that their greatest asset is the universe concept. It’s not one actor, or one character, or one team. It’s the means by which the larger ongoing saga is transmitted via movies and now TV shows. There are people who will watch Ms. Marvel and She-Hulk just to see how they fit into the larger…

The answer is actually pretty simple at a basic level: Marvel superheroes are for teenagers, and DC superheroes are for young children. And superheroes designed for teens are broadly speaking easier to market and make appeal to large quadrants of the movie going public.

Doing a little reading around, and Deadline reports that the new plans for WB under Discovery are for anything budgeted at $35M and under to go to HBO Max, while anything over $90M to go theatrical.

Batgirl had a reported budget of $70M, so...they’re just killing it and eating the loss.

Because we ALL KNOW that…

The “can’t get out of their own way” is a branding problem. Like it or not when WB releases anything there is a stick-in-the-mud contingent (not nearly as extreme as Sony) and whether that comes from it being just territorial Marvel fans or WB anti-fans from the Snyder era, I couldn’t tell you.

As someone who hates the Michael Bay “Bad Boys” movies with the fire of a thousand suns, their Bad Boys movie was surprisingly, shockingly, amazingly....good! Fun, even!

The same guy who killed Raised by Wolves? FUCK THAT GUY

Let me get this straight: they gave Zack Snyder six hours and an additional $70M to shit the bed (after giving Whedon an additional $20M to also shit the bed), but now they’re worried about quality!?!

Everyone makes a stinker eventually, but I find it near goddamn impossible to believe that a Batgirl film written by Christina Hodson, directed by Adil & Bilall (I didn’t see Bad Boys, but by all accounts they did a great job, and they absolutely killed in with their Ms. Marvel eps) is somehow “irredeemable”.

And even…

These jokers released two versions of an abhorant film with nearly triple the budget, the second time after a bot and harrassmant campaign encouraged by the director. F this. 

This is absolutely beyond wild. To spend as much money as they have, to essentially have the film by and large complete…. To have Michael freaking Keaton returning to the role (albeit for the second time)… and to give up on the film just like that?!

Come out and say we do not support nor condone this attitude but say it over and over. Call out every example of it. That is how you end this shit but they want money instead.

Give this man a fuckin’ trilogy. 

They really blew it with Boyega and Finn.

Wow, only 5 years too late.

Maybe he’s a different person in actuality than his public persona or the roles he’s played? He’s not actually Dr. John Dorian, and Scrubs went off the air 12 years ago. His overall public persona to me seems rather affable and inoffensive. They’ve been together a long time now, and they seem happy, so why does anyone…

Regardless of anyone’s opinion of Keanu Reeves’s actual acting ability, it’s impossible to deny that he gives his absolute all to each and every performance he gives.

It also has to do with the lackluster writing. Moana showed that Dwayne Johnson’s charm can be translated to animation but in League of Super Pets he’s nothing but dull because you don’t have his physical presence to do some of the heavy lifting (no pun intended). I’ve never found Kevin Hart to be anything annoying…