Warner Bros. is closing a deal with Amazon to premiere DC animated content on Prime Video

The internal restructuring of Warner Bros. continues and the company continues to make unpredictable decisions. The latest, a deal with Amazon to release DC content on its streaming platform. As reported by Deadline, Warner Bros. Television Studios is currently closing a new streaming deal for its animated properties under the DC banner..

This was announced by the president of the television division of the company, Channing Dungey, in a conference during the marketing event of Content London, anticipating that “Exploring the introduction of animated properties on different platforms”. So what would happen with HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery’s exclusive streaming service? Initially, DC animated content was not going to disappear from the platformgiven that according to Dungey the intention is to distribute animated titles on different platforms, favoring their own, but also extending them to the competition.

“With animation, we thought we had to stay at home, but now we will do it on different platforms”announced the executive. “HBO Max is first stop, but we’re closing a great deal with Amazon for branded animated content”. Dungey didn’t provide more details on the matter, nor did he specify specific titles, but his words make DC animation’s expansion outside of its usual home official.

These changes refer exclusively to the Warner Bros. television storyline, i.e. outside the DC Universe, which is undergoing its changes in parallel and is currently forging a new plan for its live-action superhero saga, with James Gunn and Peter Safran as the new presidents of DC Studios.

budget cuts

On the other hand, Dungey also alluded to the cuts that are taking place at Warner, referring specifically to those of his division. According to the president of Warner TV, in the coming years the company will spend less money on its series, due to the current economic crisis in the sector.

“It was thought for a while that if I didn’t spend $10 million in an hour [de televisión]you weren’t doing your job”highlighted during the conference. “But it doesn’t take much to make a great series and do things differently during the pandemic he underlined.”. Dungey cites as an example ‘Abbott College’, a low-budget series that has brought great benefits, awards and prestige to ABC (owned by Disney). In the end, Dungey is aware that a new writers’ strike could soon occur in response to these cuts.and even if he says so “I’d like to avoid it”adds that “There are some problems that need to be solved and we have to be prepared for the worst”.