"Film Scrap"

A recent decision by Warner DC has somehow created the biggest "movie scrap" in history!

DC's previously shot new film "Batgirl" was suddenly announced by Warner "canceled distribution", and this "canceled" does not mean that DC abandoned theaters to stream online, but theaters + DC streaming all canceled online, in other words -

In other words - shot, is not released online, hey ~ is rich, is shooting to play ~

It is reported that "Batgirl" the original plan is to be in the end of this year around the HBO Max online, the entire film public production costs about $ 90 million (but sources say that the budget is more than 100 million dollars), it is reasonable that such a large investment, the entire work even if it is very poorly shot, but not so much that it does not give any platform online opportunities.

But that's what happened!

According to the feedback from the earlier "Batgirl" screening, the feedback from the screening of this work is "very unsatisfactory", for this reason, has reached the point that DC would rather swallow the $90 million, but is also unwilling to let the "Batgirl" online, good guys, frankly, this makes me want to see more ~

However, from some external media analysis, Warner DC let the $90 million hit the water, somehow actually considered in positive stop loss.

Why do you say so?

According to Variety, if Warner DC finally decided to promote "Batgirl" in North American theaters, then, the publicity costs to draw on $30 million - $50 million, and if you then take into account promoting the film's global theatrical release, then the cost will have to add several tens of millions of dollars.

So, if DC let the "Batgirl" online, means that the cost will soar from $ 90 million to $ 150 million - $ 160 million or so, and by the regular film cost recovery, the box office to reach about 3 times the model, "Batgirl" box office to reach $ 450 million to be considered not to lose money.

But if the movie itself is very bad, this forced money operation, behind the consumption of DC's loss of word of mouth, is far from the $450 million can compensate back, so from this perspective, it is understandable why DC would rather let the $90 million down the drain, rather than "Batgirl" become the biggest "movie scrap" in Hollywood history ", but also unwilling to let its online operation.

Of course!

Earlier a fan saw the news decoupling raised, since the cost of the theatrical release is too high, why not let it go online in HBO Max, through the pay model to pay back the capital in the long run?

According to Variety's analysis of the report.

DC's advantage of not letting "Batgirl" go online for streaming is that it can cut taxes, which is the most economical way to save money at the moment. It is reported that the sequel to the "Scooby-Doo" animated movie also received this same treatment this time, however, this operation on DC's part also means that Warner can't do anything to cash in on these two movie IPs, not only can they not go online on HBO Max, but they can't even be sold The movie will be released to other labels.

It is also really - embarrassing ~

And DC's operation, in the industry, is also set off a discussion, Deadline reporter Justin Kroll has revealed that after the release of DC's decision, competing label executives exclaimed: "I've been in Hollywood for thirty years, never seen this kind of shit."

Don't say, the industry practitioners have not experienced this operation, I guess many fans have never seen it.

However, for DC's current situation, it can be said to be undergoing a huge change of reform, after the merger of Warner and Discovery, the new Warner Discovery executives are also revealed: under the new strategy, "Batgirl" such a direct high-budget film made for the streaming platform no longer makes sense, which is not now Warner Bros. Discovery want to DC movies in full swing.

According to Warner Bros. Exploration CEO David Zaslav's ideas, the future of DC will be to the zhu main output of mainstream theatrical blockbusters, he hopes that DC assets presented in theaters, to present the atmosphere of the film's big event, to have comparable to the output of such studios as Marvel's theater selected works, and obviously "Batgirl" is not in this plan.

So, we can only say that Warner DC or rich, $90 million, said not to do not ~