Wow, the ‘Batgirl’ movie is just never going to be released.
’ biggest titles to date for the HBO Max streaming service. Instead, the movie has been canceled and will never see the light of day.Variety
, the film became a victim of the change of leadership at the company, which was recently acquired by Discovery. The new folks in charge have shifted their philosophy when it comes to movies. The new Warner Bros. Discovery wants to refocus on big-budget tentpoles for theaters — not exclusives for streaming, as was the practice in recent years under the previous Warners regime.
Theoretically, Warner Bros. could still have put the movie on HBO Max without making any major alterations. By instead putting the movie on the shelf, it enables the new combined company to “take a tax write-down” on the film as well as a computer-animated Scooby-Doo movie that was also in production and is It’s still a shocking bit of news for a movie that a few months ago looked like perhaps the start of a new franchise.
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