For the first time since its inception in 2020, providing an online alternative to in-person events during the COVID outbreak, the DC Fandome has been canceled for this year. Speculation and rumors have swirled over the past two months, with no official announcement from DC to announce this year’s iteration, with the last few years having been announced a good six months before it was due.
With all the upheaval happening on all levels with Warner Bros. Discovery and DC in particular, this latest hit for fans of the event and DC will feel like another affront to them, as well as a money-saving exercise.
Cancellations
It’s been a rather tumultuous time at DC and Warner Bros. for the past few months. Discovery as a whole, with this latest news on the DC Fandome not helping. The merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery took place earlier this year in April, and since then it seems like one thing after another has been canceled, delayed, sold out, or completely destroyed, in what has been publicly seen as a decision by ” quality assurance”, but in a private capacity is considered to be for tax deductions, expense savings and, in the long run, perhaps to facilitate the future sale of certain branches of the company.
David Zaslav has been the main man in the line of fire, both the one who led the charge with all the cancellations, upsets, etc., and the one who was lambasted and slammed by fans and the media. DC specifically it’s canceled bat girl, which was more or less done, except a bit of post-production to do. His official position on the cancellation was:
“Our ambition is to bring Warners back and produce great, high-quality movies. We can build a long-term, sustainable growth business out of DC…we don’t release a movie until it’s ready. The goal is to make these films as good as possible.
With a budget of $90 million, the film was supposed to stream straight to HBO Max, but by canceling it before its release, the company snagged a tidy tax cut at a time when it had to hard to make money. Reports suggest the company will only release two movies this year, starring Dwayne Johnson black adam being one, and Florence Pugh with Don’t worry darling, The other.
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Other cancellations include several projects, including Batman: Masked Crusader, which seems to be able to be picked up elsewhere, the wonder twins TV show and more. There was a time when Matt Reeves The Batman The sequel was considered to be in jeopardy, but that thankfully seems unfounded, as is the concern over HBO’s spin-off series based on Colin Farrell’s Penguin from the first film.
It’s hard to be a DC fan right now
Being a DC fan has been tough enough over the last ten years, with the DCEU seeming to fall at every hurdle with the sub-par attempts we’ve had at film. Even before the merger and cancellation of Zaslav, the constant upheaval of the DCEU caused a lot of annoyance and stress for its fans. With characters like Cavill’s Superman in the air, Affleck’s Batman leaving and then eventually joining the DCEU, the near-constant state of a PR nightmare that Ezra Millar brought to the production of the flash and now all that, it’s hard to be a DC fan.
With the cancellation of the DC Fandome, it could be something as simple as the company restructuring its intentions from the online-only event to real-world, in-person events, as the official press release suggests. society. Having already attended SDCC this year, and with more cancellations than new projects leaking per minute, perhaps they feel they have nothing to present to justify the event? Or maybe, more cynically, they cancel it to save more money.
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Time will tell if this is the right move for the company, but fans are rightly annoyed, with many using the event to shine every little detail on DC’s upcoming projects, others appreciating that their favorite characters are in the foreground and a sizable group. of them are likely looking for reassurance about the future of DC, HBO, and the characters themselves. David Zaslav’s “10-Year Plan” sounds great in practice, but the “scorched earth” method Zaslav is using right now is frustrating and almost scary for DC fans, the cancellation of DC Fandome included.
What do you think of this latest cancellation regarding DC Fandome?
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