The Dish: What’s Behind The ‘Batgirl’ & ‘Scoob!’ Discard? David Zaslav’s Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar’s HBO Max Strategy
deadline.comWhy did Warner Bros scrap Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt? The cancelation by Warner Bros of two made for HBO Max streaming movies came as a shock to the town.
There are several threads here, but the movie amounts to an emphatic rejection of past WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s strategy to make original $70 million live action and animated films directly for streaming site HBO Max.The makers of the live action Batgirl and the animated Scoob!
learned today that those films were being stopped in their tracks. The timing was particularly awkward for Batgirl co-directors Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah.
Both are in Morocco for Arbi’s wedding — some wedding present — and they expected to return to the cutting room and continue work on the film that stars Leslie Grace, J.K.
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