Following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Batgirl may head to theaters before its HBO Max release
✖ Longtime Warner Bros. executive Toby Emmerich is reportedly considering a theatrical release for Batgirl. The move, which would be a strategic change from the vision laid out by former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, is being mulled in the larger context of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Kilar is out, and new CEO David Zaslav may be more amenable to such a change, since HBO Max was Kilar's top priority. Puck reports that Warner Bros.
Studios have been slow to fully embrace streaming, even rushing full-speed back to theaters in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The notion they would latch onto Netflix's market correction as justification for reversing course on some major streaming exclusives falls right in line with their traditional attitudes.
Still, in the case of Batgirl, there's more than a little reasoning behind it. The Batman made $750 million at the box office, before heading to HBO Max and delivering huge numbers there. Bringing Batgirl to cinemas could also help quell criticism that Warners has plans to send characters like Batgirl and Blue Beetle to HBO Max, while The Flash and Batman get big theatrical releases.
Discovery executives signaled early that they did not plan on investing as aggressively into HBO Max as did their predecessors. That's a risky strategy, since streaming remains the future of the industry, and AT&T Time Warner's approach had catapulted the service to the forefront of the streaming conversation and given Netflix and Disney+ a real run for their money. Still, in terms of short-term gains, it's hard to argue that Warner Bros.
Such a strategy would use the popularity and ubiquity of streaming to bolster movies like The Suicide Squad, which earned love from fans and critics but failed to set the box office on fire. In a theatrical environment more and more driven by risky, expensive movies, such a strategy has to be appealing to fiscally conservative executives who are trying to compete with the likes of Disney but don't want to spend $200 million on every release to do it.
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