I’m not saying they aren’t losing anything, but the true number will be smaller than what they are saying long term. They’ll still have plenty of movies in post production to release next year, and probably plenty ready to go once a deal is made with SAG. They’ll prioritize a deal with the actors once there’s risk a film they’ve invested in will need to be cancelled entirely unless a deal it’s done and can wait on the writers until their isn’t a script to be found, but they’ll still probably recoup the bulk of the lost earnings directly. TV production is probably feeling a true loss more directly and are hurt more immediately by the writer’s strike.
Warner Bros are expecting 10.5-11 billion in revenue this year even with the strike so they are fine with waiting.
Delaying Dune 2 means one less weekend for another movie next year. Sure they could release multiple movies in the same weekend, hope for a Barbieheimer type thing to happen again, but it seems more likely that’s something like that will decrease revenue.
Not having actors or writers creates a bottleneck. Yeah they can do post production on the stuff they’ve shot already. But nothing new is coming down the pipeline. Are you saying they’ll do post at the same time they’re shooting after the strike ends?
Warner Bros are expecting 10.5-11 billion in revenue
If money is nothing to them then why don’t they simply pay the writers and actors more? The point is the money they’re losing is more than the money they’d have to pay out.
I’m not saying they aren’t losing anything, but the true number will be smaller than what they are saying long term. They’ll still have plenty of movies in post production to release next year, and probably plenty ready to go once a deal is made with SAG. They’ll prioritize a deal with the actors once there’s risk a film they’ve invested in will need to be cancelled entirely unless a deal it’s done and can wait on the writers until their isn’t a script to be found, but they’ll still probably recoup the bulk of the lost earnings directly. TV production is probably feeling a true loss more directly and are hurt more immediately by the writer’s strike.
Warner Bros are expecting 10.5-11 billion in revenue this year even with the strike so they are fine with waiting.
Delaying Dune 2 means one less weekend for another movie next year. Sure they could release multiple movies in the same weekend, hope for a Barbieheimer type thing to happen again, but it seems more likely that’s something like that will decrease revenue.
Not having actors or writers creates a bottleneck. Yeah they can do post production on the stuff they’ve shot already. But nothing new is coming down the pipeline. Are you saying they’ll do post at the same time they’re shooting after the strike ends?
If money is nothing to them then why don’t they simply pay the writers and actors more? The point is the money they’re losing is more than the money they’d have to pay out.