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Gotta say the lower-budget aspect to this film made me a LOT more interested in it. I always liked Batman (and his allies) better when they were functioning as detectives, and this sounds like it had a more low key noir angle to it, which again I think these directors would have knocked out of the park.
Yavar
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When was the last time a Hollywood studio shelved a nearly completed film because a tax write-down would be a better option than releasing it? I know something similar happened with a film called "Hippie Hippe Shake" (which had a score by Dario Marianelli), but that wasn't nearly as expensive of a production as "Batgirl":
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/hippies-tossed-aside-in-corporate-decision-20110213-1as55.html
A much earlier example of shelved completed/nearly completed film is a Warner Bros. film called "Stop!" (1970):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174244/
I know there are more. But "Batgirl" might be the the most expensive film that's ever been shelved.
Yep, HIPPIE HIPPIE SHAKE was what I was going to mention too.
I read somewhere that, eventually, years after the movie was shot in 2007, the studio was required to destroy the negative as part of whatever financial agreement they worked out to dispose of the film without releasing it.
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I lost count of how many times the fragile male who wrote the article used the word or variations of "woke"
Haven't you heard? Wokery is the greatest threat the UK has ever seen, but luckily we have the sane, reasonable people at The Daily Mail to fight the good fight.
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My reaction when certain segments of the population keep using "woke" in a pejorative way:
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Aug 4, 2022 - 9:21 PM
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Terrible films get released all the time. You got streaming, broadcast television, digital sales, BluRays, etc. All kinds of ways to recoup your losses if it bombed in the theater. And its not like they couldn't just skip the theatrical run (saving money on promotion and advertisements) and rent it out. Burning the tapes of a completed film makes no sense.
Again, there was never going to be a theatrical run. It was made to premiere on HBO Max.
The decision only makes sense to accountants. Per Variety, "it will almost certainly take a tax write-down on both films, seen internally as the most financially sound way to recoup the costs (at least, on an accountant’s ledger)."
As you say, terrible films are released all the time. As illogical as this turn of events seems, as Sherlock Holmes said, "when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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