Is Gunnar coming for you? How about you? I couldn’t help but envision bullseyes as I watched Warner Bros. go to extravagant lengths to show off its extravagant superhero films to the movie theater people on Tuesday here in Las Vegas. It was the same day, coincidentally, that Warner Bros. Discovery, the new parent company, revealed its quarterly earnings in New York, during which its leader, David Zaslav, preached extreme fiscal discipline and promised not to win the content spending war. Conflicting messages, to be sure.
Or are they? This is where we are: Since the Great Netflix Correction of last week, everyone in Hollywood wants the creative community to feel secure that the freewheeling film and TV spending will continue, while at the same time telling Wall Street that it won’t. Can we have both? We’re gonna see very soon.
