Honestly the logic of streaming exclusives/originals is fucking weird.
As the whole point of things in streaming service is to make people join or not cancel.
The point of new shows is to make money by selling.. SOMETHING.
I never understood the point of ALL of the Netflix originals. Like having a few shows a year, and mostly running a back catalog is a win-win for consumers, Netflix and show creators, as it’s basically just running shows in syndication.
For WB under the new management, after they said they wanted this movie gone, allowing someone else to have it.. means a chance that Coyote movie may be popular. Which means Zaslav was wrong and is incompetent.
Presumably streamed movies' effective revenue are a function of views and the streaming service price. It seems pretty likely that this movie (and especially some of the other canned movies, like Batgirl) would get enough views for the revenue to be higher than whatever they get from the tax write off, even without marketing. And I would think if they still make a loss on it, they can still write off however much the net loss was.
It must make sense to the bag men doing it, right? I figure there's some voodoo magic the money men are doing to inflate the value of the loss they write off. If they sold it they wouldn't be able to use their imaginations on say...(guessing here) lost potential international ticket revenue? Syndication revenue? Related toy sales?
But no one is paying them.
Honestly the logic of streaming exclusives/originals is fucking weird.
As the whole point of things in streaming service is to make people join or not cancel.
The point of new shows is to make money by selling.. SOMETHING.
I never understood the point of ALL of the Netflix originals. Like having a few shows a year, and mostly running a back catalog is a win-win for consumers, Netflix and show creators, as it’s basically just running shows in syndication.
For WB under the new management, after they said they wanted this movie gone, allowing someone else to have it.. means a chance that Coyote movie may be popular. Which means Zaslav was wrong and is incompetent.
Presumably streamed movies' effective revenue are a function of views and the streaming service price. It seems pretty likely that this movie (and especially some of the other canned movies, like Batgirl) would get enough views for the revenue to be higher than whatever they get from the tax write off, even without marketing. And I would think if they still make a loss on it, they can still write off however much the net loss was.
It must make sense to the bag men doing it, right? I figure there's some voodoo magic the money men are doing to inflate the value of the loss they write off. If they sold it they wouldn't be able to use their imaginations on say...(guessing here) lost potential international ticket revenue? Syndication revenue? Related toy sales?
Im no tax man but that's my take
So basically The Producers scam?