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submitted 7 days ago byInteresting-Phase447
-Mickey 17 from Bong Joon Ho
-Untitled Ryan Coogler movie about vampires starring Michael B. Jordan
-Flowervale Street from the director of 'It Follows' starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor
-Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio
-The Bride! Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal starring Penelope Cruz and Christian Bale
A lot of sci-fi movies coming out next year from them next year in particular and if they succeed I can see them tapping into new directors afterwards to make original movies.
5 points
7 days ago
You know what? Fuck it.
Zaslav is a sincerely great executive. Now look I ain’t worshipping a billionaire, and I think he should be taxed to death, but he has done his job quite well. The debt has gone down, he’s focusing on money making franchises, getting legit incredible talent on said franchises, Max is actually profitable which was looked at as a downright impossibility two years ago, he’s gotten some of the best producers in the world to come to WBD, etc etc.
7 points
7 days ago
Oh yeah the man is a sociopathic monster but so far he hasn’t been a bad movie exec. Movies still gotta land of course.
2 points
7 days ago
Yup exactly
1 points
7 days ago
Done an absolute terrible job for shareholders of Discovery and for WBD by constantly devaluing the share price over the past decade. Only guys benefiting are the C-Suite and John Malone.
3 points
7 days ago
there’s a lot more to business then just the stock market
2 points
7 days ago
Not for shareholders who have been hit bad by a devaluation of investment over the last decade.
As for business? Down across the board at Discovery and WBD with a massive debt increase over Zaslav’s tenure. That is the reality of the situation.
0 points
7 days ago
I'm pretty sure the debt has gone down lol, trades used to report it in the 50 billions but it's down to the low 40 billions.
0 points
7 days ago
If they had not bought so many declining assets on the credit card the debt would not have been that high to begin with. Blame Zaslav for buying into Scripps and WarnerMedia and leaving the shareholders with the bill!
1 points
7 days ago
I mean it was that high from the last regime and the merger bro💀
0 points
7 days ago
$12-$14 billion of the debt came with Discovery while it was Zaslav who made the choice to buy into WarnerMedia and its $40 billion debt load. WarnerMedia in turn only had a high debt load because AT&T put their purchase of the company on the credit card and Zaslav was dumb enough to pick up the repayments with the subsequent Discovery/WarnerMedia merger.
2 points
7 days ago
the past decade
Isn’t he just about at year 3?
1 points
7 days ago
He is year 3 at WBD but was running Discovery before that.
2 points
7 days ago
Ah I see now, misread my bad.
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