Hollywood Creatives Furious at HBO Max Upheaval: ‘This Isn’t Just About a Few Movies’
thewrap.comsent shockwaves throughout the industry this week, and Hollywood creatives are going public with their anger about how Warner Bros.
Discovery is handling content.Uncertainty and dismay loomed when news broke that WBD was killing the nearly completed DC film “Batgirl,” which was to have debuted on HBO Max.
The parent company also quietly removed a number of HBO Max original films from the streaming service, and TheWrap reported Wednesday that Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav is expected to announce a major restructuring of HBO Max and Discovery+ that will result in a gutting of HBO Max, significant layoffs for its executives and staff to minimize redundancies with HBO and a combined streaming service with Discovery+ with a harder line separation between the scripted and unscripted content operations.“Streamers have been selling us creatives on the virtues of platform exclusivity for some time now,” said “Doctor Strange” and “The Black Phone” co-writer C.
Robert Cargill on Twitter. “The reason Hollywood is so shook by the HBO Max stories is that no one is sure whether this is an isolated incident or a canary in the coal mine.
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