I'd like to think that he's peeved "that a movie displaying the beautiful
geography of the southern USA, and innovative thinking has been killed by a
studio"
(My words, not his)
/Doug
east...@mcd.on.ca
On Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 19:10 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
A US Congress-member (not from California, but San Antonio TX) who called
for DOJ investigation of WBD when the write-downs started, did so again on
X late Monday...
https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-joaquin-castro-congressman-federal-probe-1235612061/
(link)
B
Dave Sikula, to PGage,
I'm the last one to defend Zaslov, but I found Frazier's original article
to be strained at best, and Chuck Jones, who probably knew the characters
better than anyone, realized that they were best seen in seven-minute
doses, and rarely at that. An hour and a half of it would probably outstay
Add to that Wall Street now seems to mostly care about debt reduction, and
rewards studios and streamers immediately with a bump in their stock price
when any significant debt reduction is announced. So Zaz pays down his
enormous debt load and gets a stock bump in basically real time.
The Studio
The $60m is purely international figures. I don't think the "sneak preview"
box office numbers get reported until the actual opening weekend when they
get added together and create a suspiciously large number to ensure they go
high in the top 10. So basically that's $60m before the US has taken a
To be fair, the Trolls number is probably heavily influenced by the 'sneak
preview' screening last weekend and presale of 1st-run streaming rights to
the 'Cock.
Honestly, tho...how does any student OTHER than WB release a Road
Runner/Wile E. Coyote movie? ("Roger Rabbit" not withstanding.)
On
According to Matt Belamy at Puck, the film is now going to get shopped
around, so not necessarily locked into the vault. Aside from anything else,
I guess there are some relationships to maintain.
He also has a bit of a discussion about exactly how much you really save by
taking a tax write off
There’s a biased reasoning that if the movie is getting shelved it must be
a terrible movie. It’s entirely possible that these movies are fine, even
better than some which have been released, but there’s some accounting or
tax benefit to shelving them. If it’s saving them money one way or another
He released the new Space Jam movie, but this is getting shelved? Come on.
On Friday, November 10, 2023 at 11:40:52 AM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote:
>
>
> As others indicated, I’m not versed in studio accountancy, but nobody
> seemed interested in the tax write off by NOT releasing the Cindy
>
It certainly seems like accounting rules, the levels of debt that are involved
in these write-offs, and/or something else has changed over the last 10 years
to make eliminating completed works better for the bottom line than releasing
them straight-to-DVD (which is still kind of a thing), or
As others indicated, I’m not versed in studio accountancy, but nobody
seemed interested in the tax write off by NOT releasing the Cindy
Crawford/Baldwin brother film Fair Game, despite it being theatrical
malaise. The studio that gave us Kangaroo Jack is claiming a Wile E Coyote
movie is somehow
Producers, directors, writers, and some technical people have to take years
out of their lives to make movies like this happen. To go through all that
and then find out nobody will get a chance to watch them must be
heartbreaking.
It’s like a Renaissance prince was a patron to a master artist. He
I would have liked to watch this.
Resilience, anvils, trains, fake light at the end of the tunnel So many
metaphors for this story.
I still don't really Get the idea of spending $70M+ and canning it and
getting a tax write-off. I guess that's why I'm not an accountant.
/Doug
They dropped an anvil on the whole project.
On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 10:16:52 PM UTC-5 Tom Wolper wrote:
> The coyote just can’t catch a break.
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 10:14 PM Jon Delfin wrote:
>
>> fortunately, the original New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier is still out
>> there
>>
The coyote just can’t catch a break.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 10:14 PM Jon Delfin wrote:
> fortunately, the original New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier is still out
> there
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:05 PM Kevin M. wrote:
>
>> It’s a clever premise. Sort of like Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law but
fortunately, the original New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier is still out there
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:05 PM Kevin M. wrote:
> It’s a clever premise. Sort of like Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law but
> for the WB animated characters
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM Mark Jeffries
> wrote:
>
>>
It’s a clever premise. Sort of like Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law but for
the WB animated characters
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
> The live-action/CGI film made originally for Max (when it was HBO Max) in
> which Wile E. Coyote sues the maker of all of those devices
The live-action/CGI film made originally for Max (when it was HBO Max) in
which Wile E. Coyote sues the maker of all of those devices that did not
help him catch the Road-Runner, in which John Cena played the attorney
representing ACME, wrapped last year, was moved to theatrical release in
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