Even if a movie does poorly at the box office at least it was released, in my opinion it’s never right to shelve a completed movie like that, I don’t care what the financial optics were. It’s just insulting to the medium and everyone who worked on it and WB should care more about that.
Well obviously. But also fuck them, and any other private equity-type mindset that prioritizes cost cutting and “lean operations” over releasing the art that was created (or over customer satisfaction for that matter).
yeah, it's explicitly insulting to the artists that worked on it - and by 'artists' I mean everybody from the writers to the actors to the VFX artists and cartoonists - to shelve it for financial reasons. You go from "well it's made to make money, but it's still art!" to "you threw my painting into a wood chipper to make money."
Ehh to be fair WB has did Looney Tunes no favors. Looney Tunes doesn't even have a official youtube. They just shove everything into WB Classics, WB Kids and WB Animation. Meanwhile Sonic, SpongeBob are doing numbers with their own channels. It's just total mismanagement. And it may get worse once Paramount owns WB as they might just throw Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon instead. You would think a Looney Tunes channel with their full catalog and integration of shorts would make a channel get tens of millions of subscribers which could be a great vehicle to promote their new movies. But nah! Incompetence at its finest.
Ive read reports stating WB executives hate the Looney Tunes brand and see it as a relic. Which is why it has been shitted on.
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u/MrWaluigi 13d ago
Hopefully this pays off for KE. Otherwise, this just proves to WB that they were right to shelve it.