David Zaslav maneuvered his scythe-armed arm on Warner Bros. Discovery and everything that falls under its umbrella. Since his arrival and takeover of the merged company from WarnerMedia and Discovery, the CEO has made massive changes in management, followed by cancellations and resignations. And now reports indicate that it could all have been for a reason.
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What’s at the center of David Zaslav’s Spiderweb of Change?
The CEO and Chairman of Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav had spent a lot of time overseeing and overseeing television content distribution, bringing cable and satellite to networks like NBC as president of Cable and Domestic TV and New Media Distribution in the ’90s. He succeeded in determining the future of entire companies in terms of long-term plans.
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However, when it comes to WB Discovery, the myopic lens through which the world witnesses change – slow, one at a time, and incremental – none of this seems to contribute to a futuristic view. Maybe the brushstrokes of shelving films and shipping projects individually don’t make sense, but over time, and once Zaslav finishes his job, the end result will be something anything substantial, both for qualitative purposes and for WB’s rise from its current rubble.
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David Zaslav’s WB bleeding a slow financial death
The company, after months of severe strategic shifts on a tectonic level, has finally admitted that it does not have enough financial capital to be able to release more than two films for the remainder of 2022, i.e. black adam and Don’t worry honey. It means that Shazam! Fury of the gods which was scheduled for December 16, 2022, is now postponed to March 17, 2023, and therefore, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is now moved to December 25, 2023.
As expected, the Twitter crowd is in a frenzy over the current state of the production company.
Warner Bros. Discovery only has enough money to release two movies the rest of the year
• #BlackAdam
• #DontWorryDarling(Going through @Borys_Kit) pic.twitter.com/FkvmNRM1Jr
—CultureCrave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) August 24, 2022
they broke 💀
– rust. (@rustmdg1) August 24, 2022
Warner Bros: pic.twitter.com/K7rUSYKOgh
— Slickzino (@slickzino) August 24, 2022
They were before they decided to scrap hundreds of millions of dollars worth of projects and dump their own service. Ended up losing billions
— Kevin Woods (@TheREALMetricK) August 24, 2022
let it be known that it was Zaslav who ultimately killed Warner Bros.
—Tommy🪤 (@ChildishTommy) August 24, 2022
James Cameron effect. Lmaooo
— CHAMPION (@champion029) August 24, 2022
The CEO walking into his office the next day would be like pic.twitter.com/vaqhbCs4II
— The NASCARking (@nascar_king) August 24, 2022
Of course, the announcement comes days after HBO Max recently shipped dozens of series and projects. After the worst could happen, which at the time included the cancellation of bat girl, now David Zaslav is managing the move of multiple Max projects from the streaming service to be shipped to separate platforms. And amidst all the distress, a handful of people enjoy the “funeral projection” of bat girl before it was completely erased from film history.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
