id actually like to see your in-depth points on the matter as it would probably be an informative read. From what ive seen of how people in company told the story, when Monty showed everyone the RED trailer in company, everyone 'knew' it was gonna pop off basically.
I don't know about when the Red Trailer was dropped in house, but Burnie gave Monty the conditions he could only work on RWBY if he finished animating or it didn't get in the way of animating for Season 10 (or 9 don't remember) of RvB.
Monty was well known to pull all nighters all the way up to when he was in hospital over his allergies, to the point that it was just one of the many running jokes at RT. It's likely that unless someone took complete control access to computers, he was always going to have an awful work/life balance.
And in the RWBY thread, there was talk of him potentially having his own thread here on the site had he lived and gone solo as he apparently planned.
Unless Roosterteeth was retarded enough to not have him sign over his creative fictions, he wouldn't be allowed to take it.
Oh, well in that case they'd just sit on it and do nothing, like with Nomad of Nowhere.
Allegedly, but that's why copyright and contract lawyers exist.
Back when he was doing Rage Quit, Michael would wait until everyone else was gone so he wouldn't disturb anyone, and mentioned that Monty was always in the office there too.
Monty was an employee of RT when he made RWBY, so RT ALWAYS owned the IP, and Monty was just the man in charge of it. Not a lawyer, but that's just the situation when it comes to employees in America.
Because nobody really gives a shit about RT in the grand scheme, so it’s not as much of a blow to the reputation if it dies. So it’ll stay on death row until it’s next to be executed.
Maybe if they make themselves look small enough, they'll avoid the gaze of Sauron.
RT doesn't require as much production or people involved, so they're small enough to be ignored... for now
Reportedly, the new WB boss was pissed at AT&T for launching CNN+ just before this latest merger happened, so it was already on his shitlist when he took over. It was also an enormous waste of money, $300 million spent for 150k subscribers. Considering that they were planning on increasing that spending up to a billion dollars, it's not a fucking surprise that it was one of the first things to get the axe. (Also, note that this is the failed streaming service CNN+, not CNN as a whole, though I expect the hatchets to work their way through there soon enough.)
You forget RWBY. If anything, that’s probably one of the last remaining parts of RT that has any value, and if there’s a price, it can be as good as sold, and RT could be bundled with it. Also, Death Battle could be on the table as well, assuming they don’t jump off to somewhere else where they can have enough creative control and creative freedom to do what they want.
How much value does RWBY even have?
Assuming WBD wants RT off their balance sheet entirely, who purchases the rights to RT itself and/or RWBY? Will RT repurchase themselves and retain the rights? If a third party buys RT, I can only imagine a relatively no name company taking a chance.
It just seems like RT is only worth a few million and if it is even making profits at all those profits are low. That's entirely speculative but I have my doubts it's pushing anything near what CNN+ pushed or if it's even relevant at all. Canning RT probably isn't even 1% of the 3 billion goal.
