KFBF
Superstar
At what point does Warner bros/discovery in service of its share holders determine its better to sell off for parts?
WB Shelves Coyote vs Acme
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OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Damn WB just got money to burn huh, they should release Batgirl on max anyway
Honestly, a lot of these companies not just WB are at that point because the streaming game is a money losing venture.
N-gga acting like they Carolco Pictures
They got waaaaaaaaay too much money to shut down or sell
feelosofer
#ninergang
This is unfortunate because worst case people would check for it just for the fukkery. Some streamer would buy it because it is a classic character and concept.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
And they're often being run by old school television execs who are coming into this completely unprepared. Guys like Zaslav who was once an NBC exec came from an environment where money was real. Budgets, views, advertising dollars. The revenue was real, the profits were real, success was tangible and explainable. With streaming you're dealing with infinite budgets of fake money, "successful" shows that cannot truly be accounted for financially, and investment money that hinges on subscriber numbers that frankly aren't impressive. It's an endless game of debt leverage and investment and sooner or later the hot potatoes get too hot to pass to the next guy.
Seems pretty obvious that we're speeding to an end game where Apple and Amazon are the last standing, unless someone like Alphabet Inc (Google) enters the game. Basically streaming is going to be what gaming is to Microsoft. An added service or content that's used to help market real products that make real money. Amazon Prime rakes in cash whether people are watching shows/movies or not. Apple rakes in cash and their most ardent supporters don't even know they have a streaming service.
And when they feel someone is exploiting them it is in the american public’s best interest to close them, unless they believe it is part of the plan.
Why would they do that when they are all in cahoots together? Only the rich can exploit those loopholes as the majority of people don’t have the resources to figure it out.
One of these days people are going to realize that.
…do you think you’re teaching me something here?
If the IRS believes that purposefully tanking a movie, purposefully failing and causing a loss (not accelerating depreciation, or spreading a loss out over years) is a form of tax evasion, they will probably take issue with it. The IRS is a collection agency for the government, that’s it. If congress has a tax POLICY, and the irs feels someone is circumventing it…that is a concern of theirs.
The ‘in cahoots’ is how policy is created by congress, infuenced by the rich and congress’ corporate controllers. But this is about warner brothers potentially steppingmout of that policy to evade taxes.
Them taking issue with it means nothing in the grand scheme of things as long as they continue to allow loopholes for these type of things to happen is my point.
Let’s not act like the rich haven’t been exploiting those type of loopholes for years yet they keep allowing it to happen
Who is “they” in this conversation? Congress or the IRS?
Congress CREATES the loopholes. The irs catches people trying to create their own.
They as in both Congress and the IRS hence my comment about how they’re all in cahoots together.
We’ll have to disagree on the idea that the IRS is anything more than a collection agency trying to collect money by the tax code…congress is in cahoots with the rich and corporations.
CreepyMcCreeperson
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They have all the old Looney Tunes on Max, and it’s very entertaining as an adult to see the lengths Coyote went through. Breh was ordering all kinds of TNT, weapons, etc. Where was he getting the money for all this?
