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  • Was "Batgirl" garbage because AT&T took over Time-Warner?

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 20 16:27:34 2022
    It took some time longer to discover that quality control appeared to have
    gone off the rails at the movie studio. Mr. Zaslav took the rare step of canceling the much-anticipated and nearly complete “Batgirl,” which had cost upward of $90 million; a Scooby-Doo sequel; and six other films
    destined for HBO Max that Discovery managers deemed all but unwatchable.

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.tv/c/EzYFCNY19cQ

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 21 03:43:42 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    RichA <[email protected]> wrote:
    It took some time longer to discover that quality control appeared to have >gone off the rails at the movie studio. Mr. Zaslav took the rare step of >canceling the much-anticipated and nearly complete “Batgirl,” which had >cost upward of $90 million; a Scooby-Doo sequel; and six other films
    destined for HBO Max that Discovery managers deemed all but unwatchable.

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.tv/c/EzYFCNY19cQ

    I saw somewhere that "nearly complete" for "Batgirl" is a bit misleading.
    I believe the story was that, yes, the action had been shot, but none of
    the FX (a major component) had been done. And then there was something
    about being able to take an advantageous write-down on the sunk cost.

    Unfortunately I don't have a link.
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