Warner Bros Discovery Chief David Zaslav On Conglom’s Content Strategy: “Real Focus On Franchises” Like ‘Superman’ & ‘Harry Potter’

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In the near future, it’s pretty simple what the new Warner Bros Discovery will zero in on: “We’re going to have a real focus on franchises,” President and CEO David Zaslav said on this afternoon’s Q3 earnings call. “We haven’t had a Superman movie in 13 years,” Zaslav emphasized. “We haven’t had a Harry Potter movie in 15 years.” “The DC movies and the Harry Pottermovies provided a lot of profits to Warner Bros motion pictures over the last 25 years,” he continued.

Recently, Henry Cavill announced that he was reprising his role as the Man of Steel after making a cameo in Black Adam. However, there are no details on a Superman sequel script or director. “House of the Dragon is a big example of that; Game of Thrones, taking advantage of Sex and the City.

Lord of the Rings — we still have the right to do Lord of the Rings movies,” Zaslav noted, but he did not call out New Line’s upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, due out in April 12, 2024. “You focus on the big movies, the tentpoles that people are going to leave home, leave early from dinner to see,” said Zaslav emphasizing how big pics make two or three times more in the U.S.

Then slamming direct-to-streaming movies, a plan executed under the former WarnerMedia regime, Zaslav said: “We learned what doesn’t work.