As media companies deal with a post-pandemic world, where streaming platforms have become key to success while simultaneously becoming expensive to maintain, a lot is changing in the way studios produce movies and television. We’ve seen a lot of unexpected moves from studios, including removing original content from streaming platforms, and the total shelving of near-completed projects, preventing them from being seen at all. In the case of WB Discovery and Max, we’ve seen both things happen.
There’s been a lot of heat on WB Discovery chief David Zaslav in recent months following the decision to simply not release Batgirl, Scoob! Holiday Haunt, and most recently Coyote vs. ACME saw the same fate. Movie fans who had been looking forward to these films, or simply those who wanted to see the hard work of the creators come to fruition have lambasted the decision. Maybe it was due to the anger he’s seeing that Zaslav told the New York Times Dealbook Summit (via Yahoo), that what the studio did took courage. He said simply…
