Ellison’s gone on some sort of rampage. I don’t know why he’s obsessed with acquiring WB you just got Paramount focus on that for longer than a second. Zaslav is a figure I’ve defended in the...
Ellison’s gone on some sort of rampage. I don’t know why he’s obsessed with acquiring WB you just got Paramount focus on that for longer than a second.
Zaslav is a figure I’ve defended in the past. Hes like a Michael Eisner, someone that makes tough and unpopular decisions but that are ultimately beneficial for a company that was struggling financially. WB is a healthier company now than it was before Discovery bought it. But this hasn’t stopped Ellison from getting his friends to write hit pieces on Zaslav painting him as some incompetent fool who has made things worse.
I’m just hoping Zaslav is able to hold it all together until they split and Ellison can’t afford to buy WB.
It's wild to me that anyone would think Zaslav is a good CEO. He's been terrible. Look at the awful rebranding and management of the company's most valuable assets. They've trashed the HBO brand...
It's wild to me that anyone would think Zaslav is a good CEO. He's been terrible.
Look at the awful rebranding and management of the company's most valuable assets. They've trashed the HBO brand and the DC brand under his tenure. HBO was once the most prestigious name in broadcasting. He threw it all down the drain for a streaming service and then changed the name after a few months. So it was all for nothing...until they decided to change it back again a few years later.
DC may be on the upswing again with James Gunn in charge, but it doesn't take a great CEO to look at Marvel, say "oh, let's just give the guy who made some good Marvel movies a truckload of money to fix DC."
He may have temporarily helped boost profits by firing a lot of people and cancelling completed projects for the tax write downs, but that doesn't make him a good CEO.
I do hope this merger doesn't happen though. The media landscape is already consolidated enough.
The HBOMAX rebrand definitely was pretty bad. But him cancelling completed films is part of that unpopular but ultimately the stuff WB needed to do after AT&T’s foolish overspending. He got HBOMAX...
The HBOMAX rebrand definitely was pretty bad. But him cancelling completed films is part of that unpopular but ultimately the stuff WB needed to do after AT&T’s foolish overspending. He got HBOMAX to be profitable for the company instead of the money loser it would have been under previous management.
He even amended fractured filmmaker relationships, AT&T lost a lot of loyalty after their Project Popcorn in 2021 and then Zaslav’s scrapping of films. The appointment of Abdy and De Luca gave them credibility and it gave them films like Sinners, Weapons, and One Battle After Another. As well as next year’s Wuthering Heights and The Bride. WB used to be considered the director friendly studio prior to 2013, and it’s just now that it’s attempting to re-establish that reputation.
Ellison’s gone on some sort of rampage. I don’t know why he’s obsessed with acquiring WB you just got Paramount focus on that for longer than a second.
Zaslav is a figure I’ve defended in the past. Hes like a Michael Eisner, someone that makes tough and unpopular decisions but that are ultimately beneficial for a company that was struggling financially. WB is a healthier company now than it was before Discovery bought it. But this hasn’t stopped Ellison from getting his friends to write hit pieces on Zaslav painting him as some incompetent fool who has made things worse.
I’m just hoping Zaslav is able to hold it all together until they split and Ellison can’t afford to buy WB.
It's wild to me that anyone would think Zaslav is a good CEO. He's been terrible.
Look at the awful rebranding and management of the company's most valuable assets. They've trashed the HBO brand and the DC brand under his tenure. HBO was once the most prestigious name in broadcasting. He threw it all down the drain for a streaming service and then changed the name after a few months. So it was all for nothing...until they decided to change it back again a few years later.
DC may be on the upswing again with James Gunn in charge, but it doesn't take a great CEO to look at Marvel, say "oh, let's just give the guy who made some good Marvel movies a truckload of money to fix DC."
He may have temporarily helped boost profits by firing a lot of people and cancelling completed projects for the tax write downs, but that doesn't make him a good CEO.
I do hope this merger doesn't happen though. The media landscape is already consolidated enough.
The HBOMAX rebrand definitely was pretty bad. But him cancelling completed films is part of that unpopular but ultimately the stuff WB needed to do after AT&T’s foolish overspending. He got HBOMAX to be profitable for the company instead of the money loser it would have been under previous management.
He even amended fractured filmmaker relationships, AT&T lost a lot of loyalty after their Project Popcorn in 2021 and then Zaslav’s scrapping of films. The appointment of Abdy and De Luca gave them credibility and it gave them films like Sinners, Weapons, and One Battle After Another. As well as next year’s Wuthering Heights and The Bride. WB used to be considered the director friendly studio prior to 2013, and it’s just now that it’s attempting to re-establish that reputation.
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