In the wake of BATGIRL and the finished SCOOB! Sequel, HBO Max has eliminated many other WB exclusive streaming titles

It’s been a weird week at Warner Bros. and HBO. In the wake of the daunting decision to withdraw the $ 90 million Bad girl movies that fans expected to return Michael Keaton’s Batman, as well as animation Scoob! sequel that was finished and ready for release over the holidays, film consumers wonder what’s going through the minds of the studio bosses making these films, only to throw them away in their final hours. Apparently it all comes down to Warner Bros. Discovery’s new President and CEO, David Zaslav, and his eye to the bottom line.

As reported by Variety, in the past few weeks at least six Warner Bros. movies have been removed from HBO Max. They include Shot of the moona romantic sci-fi comedy starring Condor wool And Cole Sprouse; comedy about dystopia with artificial intelligence Superintelligencehero Melissa McCarthy; Robert Zemeckis’Remake 2020 of Witcheshero Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci And Chris Rock; comedy An American picklehero Seth Rogen like an immigrant who wakes up after being pickled for 100 years; Doug Liman photo of the robbery Locked down with Anne Hathaway And Chiwetel Ejiofor; and drama Enchant the kings of the city by the director Angelo Manuel Soto. All six films were labeled “Max Originals”.

Meanwhile, the reboot of classic comedy House partyfrom LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill, was previously scheduled to premiere on July 28 on HBO Max, but was canceled from the release schedule. Also, users on social media have noticed that the original HBO series Vinylaired for a season in 2016, it is no longer available on HBO Max, nor the limited series Mrs. Fletcher, Lena Dunham’S Camping or comedy-thriller Run hero Merritt Wever And Domhnall Gleeson.

Streaming platforms can be said to add and remove content fairly continuously, but the odd factor in all of this is that these removals were done under the radar, without warning. IndieWire has done their own scrutiny of all this movement and noted that the main reason this is likely going down is because “content costs can be amortized – or assigned to a cost that is recognized by an entity. over multiple years – over the course of the film’s schedule or expected duration.If years remain on that timeline, a company can remove that asset from distribution and use the remaining cost balance to offset taxable income elsewhere.

So it’s no surprise that big money is the driving force behind it all, but it’s a real shame that movies are being made and taken away by consumers for some sort of compensation. Why even do them in the first place? If this guy is more interested in money than making movies for fans to enjoy, why is he in the world of filmmaking too? It’s a mistery. But we have to keep talking about them and denouncing them, or we risk other films coming out of us.