[ SECRET POST #6175 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6175 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I listened to an interview with someone back at the start of the writers' strike who spoke on this.

So, I'm probably missing a piece here, but my understanding is that if a studio cans a movie without releasing it, they can get a pretty significant tax write-off for it. WB's strategy the past several years has been to generate revenue by seeking tax credits/write-offs rather than through box office receipts.

[feotakahari]

But if the goal isn’t actually to show the movies, shouldn’t they be the absolute minimum budget, quality, and runtime? Like whenever a shitty barely-existing movie gets made to avoid a rights reversion.

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NAYRT

I'm pretty sure making a movie with the *intent* of not showing it and using it for tax relief would be out-and-out tax fraud.

These are movies that were produced with the intent to release them, usually by the people who were in charge of the studio before Discovery bought it. So the people who used to be in charge thought the movie would make a lot of money, but then Zaslav decided that it wouldn't make enough money if they released it and would be worth more for the tax write-off.

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DA

This is it exactly. They're actually starting to get some heat from the FCC for canning so many movies recently and getting tax relief. Not to mention that talent has started canceling meetings with WB because they don't want to bother making something for it to be shit-canned for the tax money.

[(Anonymous)]

Zaslav. Zaslav (and everyone who enables him and people like him) is the problem here.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve read a couple articles saying the same thing that included quotes from named studio people. Because Batgirl’s screenings were so poorly received and the reshoot costs were so high, they lost less money by canning it and doing the tax writeoff. But I think they still lost some.

[(Anonymous)]

I think OPs argument isn't that Batgirl was canned per se, but rather that Batgirl was canned but the Flash movie was finished and released. If they had canned the Flash movie but released Batgirl, the losses wouldn't have been as high.

(For the record, I don't know the numbers. But that seems to me the argument from how I understood it.)

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT my comment was in reply to a comment about the tax write off for Batgirl, not the secret.