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[Basic Blond Boy]

And then suddenly they took a money bribe to not release Coyote vs. Acme. Huh, that's weird and sketchy.

Coyote Vs Acme was never going to make back its money, no matter how much animation fans on Twitter cry over it. The test screenings were poor and the last Looney Tunes outing was Space Jam 2 which was a massive bomb. Add in that Coyote isn’t even the biggest LT character and it makes sense why it was easier to just sell off and kill the thing.

Then Boomerang got shut down. Honestly really sad to see, but they really hadn't been tending to it for years at this point, probably wasn't making money.

It was a channel very few even had at the height of tv. Last few years Boomerang wasn’t even a channel for classics and was just CN2.0. Not much of a loss.

Then the Cartoon Network website got shut down. Not sure why that happened since CN is still on, but okay?

I mean, barely. CN has been on the decline for a while with viewership only being people in their 20s and above. The former Warner staff deliberately sabotaged CN to push the channel into a streaming direction, and, most hilariously, to save money for fucking CNN as those dipshits got Warner in deep shit during Trump’s first term.

Then they removed a lot of the Cartoon Network line-up from Max including nearly all but the recent season of Teen Titans Go. Wait, what the fuck is happening?

Tarnished brand. As stated above, CN was pushed into a decline deliberately and only cared for by us older folks. The man child audience sadly isn’t enough to make it worth the costs. Maybe if CN produced content kids actually cared about past 2015, there would be more shows still available.

Then they sabotaged The Day the Earth Blew Up's distribution, which is weird because they're thinking on selling the Looney Tunes brand and Ketchup wants to pick it up. Zaslav, what the fuck, dude?

He didn’t sabotage it. The film was going to be a tax write-off that thankfully costed so little to make that Ketchup could pick it up and distribute it while giving Warner a profit. Warner obviously didn’t care what happens with it afterwards.

The man has either had it out for animation from day one (and we might need to owe all of those animators an apology but I really don't want to do that because just look at those fucks), or he just doesn't like LT/thinks it's not worth keeping alive because of their own sabotage to keep kids from getting into it. Something's just not right here in WB just giving up animation entirely.

Just no point. It is a diminishing returns industry. Sadly, all reports highlight that kids are moving away from Hollywood. Gen Z is looking to be the last generation with any kind of attachment to Hollywood content, including animation.

It doesn’t matter what Warner throws out anymore. They clearly cannot compete with the internet and know it isn’t worth the battle. Studios like Warner and Disney have been burning bridges for damn near two decades now. They cannot just rebound, especially in their current state.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I mean, barely. CN has been on the decline for a while with viewership only being people in their 20s and above. The former Warner staff deliberately sabotaged CN to push the channel into a streaming direction, and, most hilariously, to save money for fucking CNN as those dipshits got Warner in deep shit during Trump’s first term.

That's the worst decision of their time and they will not admit it openly in public.

Just no point. It is a diminishing returns industry. Sadly, all reports highlight that kids are moving away from Hollywood. Gen Z is looking to be the last generation with any kind of attachment to Hollywood content, including animation.

It's so tempted to said to Hollywood: "how do you feel to be in the same boots as the Rust belt"?

 

[Trollblade69]

Do not post AI slop.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

HES BLUFFING! POST THE AI SLOP!

 

[ThinkThankThunk]

The Day the Earth Blew Up is actually doing really well here, at least in the locally run theaters. It looked like it ate shit in the chains, but the chains themselves are eating shit in general too. We're going back to a market of 70's niche content in a post-60's blockbuster Western and Spy economy. By far the most popular movie in the local screenings is Flow - a movie made on a relatively low budget distributed through smaller networks resulting in higher margins for the theaters and cheaper tickets for audiences. They may not be selling out as fast or hard as Marvel was a decade ago but it's a substantially healthier dynamic than one-weekend blitzes with $25 dollar tickets to pay the WB/Disney/MGM tithe.

Long-term WB's approach to their animation division will be standard and the big studio animation will be doomed, but so is the rest of the Hollywood market. As the AMCs and Cineplexes are forced to downsize and adapt to a market where the big houses are increasingly not worth playing ball with I think we'll see theatrical animation thrive in smaller, more arthouse or international style releases.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

The Day the Earth Blew Up is actually doing really well here, at least in the locally run theaters. It looked like it ate shit in the chains, but the chains themselves are eating shit in general too. We're going back to a market of 70's niche content in a post-60's blockbuster Western and Spy economy. By far the most popular movie in the local screenings is Flow - a movie made on a relatively low budget distributed through smaller networks resulting in higher margins for the theaters and cheaper tickets for audiences. They may not be selling out as fast or hard as Marvel was a decade ago but it's a substantially healthier dynamic than one-weekend blitzes with $25 dollar tickets to pay the WB/Disney/MGM tithe.

Long-term WB's approach to their animation division will be standard and the big studio animation will be doomed, but so is the rest of the Hollywood market. As the AMCs and Cineplexes are forced to downsize and adapt to a market where the big houses are increasingly not worth playing ball with I think we'll see theatrical animation thrive in smaller, more arthouse or international style releases.

Despite seeming like it had no fanfare and very little marketing i went to see it with my family and it was not bad. It was great to see an animated film feel like it would fit right in with at least the late 2000s that didn't feel like it needed to be overbloated to meet a company qouta.

 

[Niggerphobe]

Common side effects season 2 has been confirmed right after the season 1 finale

 

[Bruce LaLiLuLeLo]

Does somebody have invites to the western animation dm chain? I'm probably extremely late but I thought I could contribute something. I'm not good at the arts but could figure something out, both on the drawing and writing side.

 

[Introvertigo]

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[Coolio55]

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Can't wait to see everyone's reaction when - surprise surprise - it's a giant dirty gaping asshole.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

50 million??? What in the world.

 

[invisibult plus+]

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It’s probably not going to be Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but thank God they managed to get it.

 

[starborn427614]

Can't wait to see everyone's reaction when - surprise surprise - it's a giant dirty gaping asshole.

It was never going to live up to the hype, but people deserved to make that decision for themselves instead of WB doing it for them.

 

[Saaivas]

Can't wait to see everyone's reaction when - surprise surprise - it's a giant dirty gaping asshole.

The more important question is ''are they going to make their money back?'' and the answer is no. People like to shit on the ''animation is cinema'' crowd for not seeing the movie, but the truth is that ''animation is cinema'' crowd is in reality a very small percentage of population.

I literally had a post about this movie being released in 2026 4 tweets above this one lmao. Do you remember when everyone truly believed that we are getting this movie on Easter 2024? Me too and I still have no idea what kind of collective coping was that.

 

[Sneak 'n' Snore]

The more important question is ''are they going to make their money back?'' and the answer is no. People like to shit on the ''animation is cinema'' crowd for not seeing the movie, but the truth is that ''animation is cinema'' crowd is in reality a very small percentage of population.

Yeah, there is definitely a precedent for specifically 2D animation having a hard time wowing people in a way where 3D doesn't struggle.
The Powerpuff Girls movie for example bombed and that was still long before the brand got hit with terrible reboots.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

April 1 is this character's bitthday

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Name your Cartoon waifu (No anime, even if I want to post about Nami)

 

[ShiftyBoi]

Name your Cartoon waifu (No anime, even if I want to post about Nami)
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Okay hear me out....

Bros I think I can fix her

 

[Kari Kamiya]

The Powerpuff Girls movie for example bombed and that was still long before the brand got hit with terrible reboots.

I sometimes wonder if that's because Ebert and Roeper gave the movie a thumbs down and not just because it was based off a cartoon that not everyone watched. Even back then, normies only checked out a movie if they were interested in it, bored enough to watch a random movie, or if Ebert said it was good.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I sometimes wonder if that's because Ebert and Roeper gave the movie a thumbs down and not just because it was based off a cartoon that not everyone watched. Even back then, normies only checked out a movie if they were interested in it, bored enough to watch a random movie, or if Ebert said it was good.

Who the fuck cares what a pretentious fat-nosed kike and his gay lover have to say about shit nowadays?