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"One of WBD’s most notorious post-merger decisions was deleting an entire finished feature, “Batgirl,” that had an estimated budget of $90 million, to claim a t
by Barrin92 3y ago
"One of WBD’s most notorious post-merger decisions was deleting an entire finished feature, “Batgirl,” that had an estimated budget of $90 million, to claim a tax write-off"
I feel like if someone reads that in a thousand years they're going to look at us the same way we look at some ancient tribe worshipping idols. Years of work and cultural artifacts destroyed for the accounting department, that's nuts.
- Andrex 3y agoIt's not destroyed, it exists somewhere. And IMO it's just as likely it sees release in the next 1000 years as it is accidentally destroyed or lost. Movie studio regimes change all the time, and it's possible to un-tax-write-off a work (it's just a giant pain in the ass). Adult Swim got Sym-Bionic Titan and IGPX back from the dead, and they're owned by the same parent company (Warner Bros.)