spending loads of money just to be miserable 😮‍💨

Well, it's the fifth time they're doing this story. It's long past its expiration date.

I suspect she'll be forced to grin and bear it, after all the franchise's current money maker is the theme parks that are modeled after the films and won't be changing.

Notable that the much bigger Star Wars did not survive its sequel series rebrand.

Easy boycott.

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Not even wood, they're made of resin lol

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That it exists?

We're doomed.

They're still riding on the high of the Hobbit films from over a decade ago, it seems.

Frozen 3 will also get a lot of carry over that month for the holidays.

Yeah I don't know about that. Marvel's stable of Glup Shittos going out for one last big romp vs... Gollum and an aging Elijah Wood who probably only has a couple of short scenes.

Same day as Avengers: Secret Wars, whew.

Some deep irony here considering WB's thirst for IP in the Zaslav era.

Mark, no...

It looks new??

He's a hypocrite.

David Zaslav.

As a frequent goer of the theme parks, it's very much the same situation. I learn so much about people there lol

Sure they have, that's what DVD extras tend to be.

But do the kids care for long form TV? They'll watch the movies and be done with it for the most part from what I've seen in the real world.

I mean, the HP films did it first.

Supernatural? But then the core cast is pretty small.

The shows I pointed out initially were critical bombs, just like Euphoria s3 here.

I'm talking about their more recent shows.

Penguin was fine, as was Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. HP looks bad and shouldn't exist in any form at this point for a multitude of reasons. The rest are more niche but have their own audiences.

Aside from The Pitt, a lot of their bigger tentpoles like The Last of Us, House of the Dragon, Dune Prophecy, and some others have been disappointing.

Another HBO bomb.