Why is "Batman: Caped Crusader" not on Max: And my concern over the animation industry
I loved the recent Caped Crusader show from Bruce Tim, JJ Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Ed Brubaker known for Under the Red Hood.
I fell in love with the Amazon Prime show, from the setting to vehicles and designs. I ate this show! Batman: Caped Crusader is a stellar series coming from brain who created BTAS (Batman: The Animated Series). But why isn’t this show on WB. Discovery’s Max service?
If you ask David Zaslav, he would likely say that WB chose to sell the animated show to Amazon because they believed it would generate more revenue than if the show had been featured on Max.
Attribution: Amazon Prime Video, Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment, Bad Robot, 6th & Idaho Productions.
Recent news has come to light that Warner Discovery, has change the Craig of The Creek’s copyright from "The Cartoon Network Inc." and under "Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc." Lending the credence to the recent sentiment of Cartoon Network's slow phase out.
Attribution: animatedplus on X.
This is happening as The Animation Guild is kicking off a rally on August 10th at IATSE 80th in Burbank California. This follows recent news that IATSE finished negotiations with the major studios in Hollywood industry over AI, like writer and actor unions last year.
As by recent moves by Warner Bros. Discovery as to close down the Cartoon Network office last summer, cutting some jobs and moving remaining staff to Warner Bros. Animation offices.
Attribution: Animation Workers Ignited.
As Warner Bros. Discovery has cancelled projects like Batgirl and Dave Green's Coyote vs Acme film.
The film set to be a about:
"Coyote, in his pursuit of the Road Runner, he hires an equally-unlucky human attorney to sue the company. When Wile E.'s lawyer finds out that his former law firm's intimidating boss is ACME's CEO, he teams up with Wile E. to win the court case against him."
Attribution: Warner Bros. Discovery, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, “Two Monkeys, A Goat and Another, Dead, Monkey” , Lin Pictures.
I say this in light that Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down the the Boomerang streaming service this upcoming September, as the service will be moving most of content on the service "to Max".
With it being reported that not all content will survive the transition to Max. And that individuals effected by the shutdown will be given only given a partial refund for what they payed for the service.
Attribution: CN News / Schedules on X
Personally as individual effected by the shutdown of Funimation, atleast with Sony shutdown the service they gave individuals effected 3 months of Crunchyroll's standard plan for their service.
I cover this to say, people should be conscious with what’s going on at Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav, (CEO of WB Discovery) will do anything and everything that will pump-up the stock value of his company.
As he keep making millions of dollars of exploiting the labor of his workers. The workers who produce these incredible animated features and shows. Individuals in behind the scenes that created a 24/7 cartoon "network" that provided both classic animation from its back catalog. Giving a stage to international action animation that created a generation of fans. And a programming channel that gave a creative feed to those looking to produce their niche pet projects and out there sketch comedy shows.
Attribution: Sentai Filmworks, Tatsunoko Productions, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
To me that’s, what the Warner Brothers name means to me. What makes up Warner Brothers are the people working behind the scenes. Those work in the animation industry, film industry, and music industry.
Not a corporate CEO, who made a career for making trash television, that doesn't view the work of others as nothing more than a cheap disposable "content" to make money.
Attribution: David Zaslav Headshot - Warner Bros. Discovery Website
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