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https://twitter.com/happyroadkill/status/1654179858090475536
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#union #HBO #funny
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https://twitter.com/happyroadkill/status/1654179858090475536
Just the comic
Keep these in order, Imgur app.
#union #HBO #funny
whitebbwolf
y ´all thing the studios really want to bleed the writers dry before starting to "negotiate" ?
Freak0zoid
I usually yell “Cobain”. He didn’t miss his last shot.
CUBErk
I'm still surprised we expect art appreciation from salesmen...
yalczero
I'd classify studio execs as not just salesmen, but shady used car salesmen.
SaintSleepyWeasel
You know, it doesn't HAVE to be a fucking tax write off. We can change that so it doesn't count.
Bandlith
Poor Final Space....
FortuneBee
Final Space managed to re-secure rights to self-publish a comic book hardback in order to wrap up the story which should come out some time next year though. It's not much but it's something. As much as I loved Final Space, the 2nd and 3rd seasons were too sloppy and too slow, he could have easily published a great series in the time he had but feels like he was hoping out for 5 seasons and a movie with how hard the story hit the breaks and slowed down after season 1.
Ree81
If you haven't watched Pantheon, it's extremely worth your time. :) Sci-fi with some hard body horror. Animated, but definitely for adults. Should've been a 'live action' show imho.
Couchwarrior1337
* A team of heroes plunge into the Disney volcano and pull out Nimona at the last second *
Senguie
Is that what happened? We almost didn’t get Nimona as a movie??? WHAT
Couchwarrior1337
Yep. Merger between companies, and it was almost written off because Disney said, of ALL the things "eh, too gay."
BROpeep
Raised by wolves...
amiurume
Thank you!
SemperCallide
I wanted to see Space Jesus damnit
Fedotia
Can someone explain this "tax write off" thing to my foreign friend ?
FortuneBee
Basically publishers found that they could take a series that they had the rights to claim it was a "Failed product" and thus write it off so they wouldn't have to pay taxes on it, and would thus, get free money out of it. The end result is the IP itself basically ends up in purgatory, where no one, no where, ever, not even the original creator, is allowed to make money on it, because it's declared "Failed product", all because some guy wanted to squeeze blood out of a rock for an small bonus.
FortuneBee
Which is such a shame, because it means no other studio can pick the project up for a new series, no one can reboot or rerelease it, streaming services have to take it down. Even if you bought a copy of it to watch on Amazon Prime, it gets removed and you can no longer watch it, particularly eggregious in the modern era where physical media like DVD's basically don't exist. It basically erases the show from existence in order to make back a quick cash.
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
I'm gonna miss westworld. Like, ya, it went downhill very fast but I enjoyed the mystery and characters anyway.
TheSecondPiewackit
I loved every second of it. The park got bigger in every season. There was only two ways to go in season 5 and they deprived us of it.
CannotBeBanned
I saw the first real world season w Aaron Paul. It was still intriguing
eaeaeaeaea
Aaron Paul didn't bring his Breaking Bad chops in that one though.
HappyTimeHollis
I'm just watching that now. I watched the first two seasons when it was current but fell off. Very keen to get to the 3rd and 4th.
ChuChuIcarus
Personally, I enjoyed the whole thing and wished it could have gotten it's last season.
ProfessorZalu
Megas XLR became a tax write off so there's no legal way to have a sequel or game etc even though it made money and was popular
HackerJacker
i MEAN THERE IS, YOU PAY THE TAX BACK
HackerJacker
CAPS unintentional ny fuck it I'm leaving it
SoraHjort
The execs at the time really hated that it was doing well, annoyingly.
Whiterosett
Fill me in why being a tax write off means they couldn't make a more? Likw they wont i know but wouldn't think that they would be stopped?
mechsrule009
Maybe it should become law that IP written off like this is instantly made public domain
Rogahar
Even tho WE. LOVE. GIANT ROBOTS.
BigUglyBear
Chicks dig giant robots!
ProfessorZalu
You! Dig giant robots
Zipperkiller
I don’t know enough about what happens to an ip with this, but why couldn’t someone buy the rights for a sequel from whoever ended up with them?
TheSnacker
From what I can tell, they can't. Because it is a write off, CN is not allowed to make any money off of the IP, which means they can't sell the rights, and they cannot even sell DVDs or toys using the IP. They will not give up the rights either, since they can't get anything out of that, and if it does well, they would be competing against it
Manae
They probably can! Except the company won't sell it because owning IP is more important than using IP, and DEFINITELY more important that letting someone else profit off the IP even though you aren't using it. Because capitalism is just as shit as every other system because the problem is actually those with the power.
CityYeti
Same with Sym-Bionic Titan. So many questions left unanswered. It was a Tartakovsky show, too....
njrk97
Sym-Bionic Titan, Megas XLR and Motorcity i feel are the 3 shows that were killed before given a real chance.
DarkBusterBaron
Teen Titans had 4 seasons and was canceled on a cliffhanger.
CityYeti
I wouldn't call it a cliffhanger, more like a downer.
CityYeti
Oh, and Mission Hill. I've been watching the series on YouTube again, this time with commentary from the DVD.
THRILLHOUSE69
This artist does funny porn
CityYeti
Thanks for the tip
Gatorjon
This does not deserve to be downvoted. Probably should have used "amusing" instead of "funny". No miss-reading that way.
ulubai
If you don't enjoy an artists work just because they've done furry porn then buddy, there are a lot of artists you won't enjoy because that shit pays bills.
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avidatheist
Maybe they just wanted to direct people to find new porn?
besttom
IK,R? I don't understand all the downvotes.
CorrectMostOfTheTime
I like how everyone admits their kink while not realizing he said funny not furry
thisisjunk
... and?
BeesechurgerProductions
Reread, they said funny not furry, its not a complaint. I misread it too
CardeasIV
Thanks, ill be checking it out!
WeSingLalaWhileTheDevilDoesTheChaCha
Cool, thanks!
Noevilgifs
Cool another one in my list!
ChickenVegetas
That's disgusting. What specific website do they post on so I can avoid it? And do they have a patreon, you know so I can avoid it.
mucotevoli
Artist gotta have a Hussle to make extra cash
BeesechurgerProductions
Reread, they said funny. And checking their comment history, I think it was a recommendation not a criticism
mucotevoli
Whoops, thought it said Furry. U right
Falkh12
Is this supposed to be a warning? Or a recommendation?
Username62611
Judging by their comment history, looks like a recommendation. Shame about all the downvotes.
Username62611
Y'all can stop downvoting. Or continue I guess, if you're mad at someone for being into furry porn. Check their comment history, or just think for a second why they would know that.
BeesechurgerProductions
They said funny. I misread it too.
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MontsterTacks
RIP Batgirl.
doctorbocker
Hey if Jimmy C's trainwreck managed to drag itself to the surface, there's still hope.
johnny2hats
If they can receive tens of millions of dollars on tax write offs because they made an oopsie then they should be required to release the written off material into the public domain and lose the rights
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
As a Belgian, I'm very annoyed at that one, since it was directed by Adil & Bilal. But also as a Belgian, I can't do much more about it than huff and puff and cross my arms a bit.
Ree81
PANTHEON!!!!
MrSwissroll
We talkin' the CW show?
Someshithead241
No, that's Batwoman. A show I wish would be thrown in a volcano
JStengah
The movie they made (all done except for some reshoots and post-production work) but deleted from their servers rather than finish and release it. It's assumed to be for the tax write off, but the napkin math doesn't really work out. Canceling the Batgirl movie saves them maybe $20-30 million in taxes, a drop in the bucket compared to the debt they have from the merger ($3 billion). It's more likely part of a strategic shift or a desire to do a hard reboot of the DC movies than about the money.
studiomurph
They also memory-holed content that had been done and released for years worth a fraction of what Batgirl is/was/could be. It's easy to say the math doesn't make sense for a single item, but they purged a TON of content. Kind of like deleting a ton of small folders to make space in a HD. It's not much individually, but all together it starts to add up
MrSwissroll
Ah, I see. That's a shame, but yeah, DC is all over the place right now so it figures. With any luck, some jaded WB employee secretly saved it and will someday leak it years from now.
titaniumsnail
We can hope. The creators said it was heartbreaking checking the storage folders for the movie and finding them all empty. The decision was also so sudden all of them got kinda caught by surprise.
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
Ironically, Batgirl made on a small budget had a much better prospect of making them a profit than all the big-budget troubled actor stuff they did release that all bombed horribly.
JStengah
I mean, they'd already spent around $90 million and likely would have spent another 20-30 to finish it. It was planned to be exclusive to HBO max as well, and not get a traditional theater release, so it's very questionable how much profit it would actually bring in. All the streaming companies are revisiting their financial equations for streaming content.
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
iirc it was, the same as blue beetle, originally planned for Max and then bumped up to a theatrical release before it was cancelled. 110-130 is cheap for a theatrical movie and would have needed a lot less box office to profit compared to 200mil flops like black adam or flash and it didn't have anyone like Ezra Miller generating bad press for it.
thedudeman519
Rely wanted to see Firefly . Don't think I've ever seen that character in love action
MagnorCriol
I'm sure you could find some love action stuff with her in certain corners of the Internet with a little bit of searching.
thedudeman519
Firefly was gonna be played by Brendan Fraser. Won't even take long. Dude gets mad love
MagnorCriol
Oops, I meant "him", not "her". Not sure why I brain farted there, haha.
thedudeman519
On Gotham Firefly was a woman so I figured that's what you meant
TheChook
They were on Gotham, gender swapped I believe, but they were there. I would have loved the see Brendan Fraser have a go at it though
RayneOfSalt
Lady Firefly, protege of the original Firefly.
trigonman3
Does she get more than one season?
RayneOfSalt
Yeah, she's in several episodes every season from her first appearance onwards.
thedudeman519
Must've missed her. Didn't watch the show religiously. But BD Wong as Strange and Anthony Carrigan as Zsasz were great