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 burning off the
unaired episodes in the wee small hours.
David
On Friday, November 10, 2023 at 08:40:53 AM PST, Kevin M.
<[email protected]> 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 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 lacking?!
The studio said “yes” to the cinematic flotsam and jetsam that was the Arthur
remake, Battlefield Earth, and Cop Out, but a film about a female caped
crusader gets buried in a shallow grave?
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:36 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
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 asks the
artist for a painting on a specific subject, and when the artist shows him the
final work he burns it.
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 8:02 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:05 p.m. Kevin M. <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 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 July but got
postponed in favor of, hi "Barbie"!, and now Daddy Zaslav, Super Genius, has
decided that it will jon "Batgirl" and "Scoob! Holiday Haunt" in the Land of
Tax Write-offs--understandably, the film's director is pissed:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-cena-coyote-vs-acme-movie-shelved-1235643235/
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