Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot

Just accept that it is completely 100% over for WB. Looney Tunes is just an IP that can be sold off quickly, next is going to be bigger properties like Harry Potter and LOTR, and after that less financially viable properties like DC Comics. It's all going to go, and what will be left is a shell of a company while all the executives get golden parachutes.

So this is how you kill off a series with nearly a century worth of fans. I rarely care for what cartoonbrew says about shit but they did point out that it's exclusively executive faults for the death and destruction of LT.

I hope whoever buys LT will turn that shit around.

I hope whoever buys LT will turn that shit around.

Lmao, the Saudi's aren't going to do shit.

If Gunn Superman bombs, DC Comics is fucking dead.

Luckily for him the industry is full of old people and pussies, so he won't suffer any consequences from gutting it.

The Harley Quinn fart comic didn't save them?

A-al-a-a-al-Allah Akbar!

No, it doesn't matter how well or poorly it does. DC Comics is dead no matter what, Superman will just determine how much the IP is to be sold for.

God-fucking-damn man...

Gee who knew forcing diversity down peoples throats and forcing them to watch gay shit destroyed an entire industry, now everyone including the woke aren't gonna have jobs. Hope it was worth it guys.

Most rumors are siding on an American company buying them.

personally my wild card is Sony.

There’s Disney, Comcast, Brietbart and who else?

Brietbart

Breitbart buying Looney Tunes would be crazy.

I don’t think they have the money, their cartoon output seems to mostly consist of a few shows they barely advertise/d.

Maybe another Luigi has to rise up...

Alright now I'm 100% convinced they're selling Looney Tunes. Jeff Sneider-dono, I kneel...

Amazon

Does it matter at all? He is the highest paid media CEO and will walk away as one of the wealthiest former studio heads ever. He doesn't have to give a flying fuck about how badly he destroyed one of the oldest studios in the world. He;s rich and WB made him way richer.

brb, gotta shoot Zaslav cause he doesn't make good cartoons.

They haven't had jobs for a couple years now.

And they learned nothing from all of it.

Go Woke....

THEY'RE KNOCKING DOWN TERMITE TERRACE?!

people get killed every day for less

Good luck with that, young men don't care about cartoons anyways, the industry drove them out years ago.
Your best bet is some twitter (or I guess Bluesky these days) xer going off their rocker or something.

Total CEO death

anon they knocked that shit down in the 60s. this is like the third or fourth building.

Nah, they demolished the original building in the 40s. Per it's name, it was very run down and they couldn't keep up maintenance.

They made some iconic shit in building 131 though, Zaslav is still a prick for tearing the last Warner Bros Cartoons studio down.

With ai and fans tweaking the products any property can keep living thank god. This destruction of lt is pathetic.

Seconding. May be interested in buying some too.

Im just too tired.

Apple

What if Musk bought them

Impressively shitty; I think Warner might be the worst-run entertainment company in history, or at least since Pat Sullivan Enterprises.

You're thinking of Daily Wire.

The timing of this can't be a coincidence. They're out to demoralize LT fans for god only knows what reason at this point.

let's say some other company bought the rights to the looney tunes
music is a huge part of the shorts, and warner's gimmick was they have a huge music library that the shorts could pull from for free since they were under the same roof
i dont see warner selling their music library, so what happens when you have rights to the characters and animation, but not rights to the music?

Company went woke, got broke, and now cartoons suffer.

cartoons edited to all hell

I think they are just hellsent on selling the IP, probably in 2026, because they don't have use for it and are slowly removing it from themselves (removing from Max, removing the building, etc)
Their moves like this and distributing films out to small publishers are more showing they want to rid themselves of the IP and are preparing for it more then just spiting nerds on Anon Babble

I still don't get why they are doing this. Even if the IP isn't popular at the moment, why get rid of it? Are they that desperate for cash?

The studio is crumbling because of wokeflops and they need to downsize to survive.

They're going to build a warehouse to store all their prosthetic dicks for HBO shows, aren't they?

when was the last time the building was actually used? I don't think thats the og og termite terrace building so what exactly makes it the looney tunes one? is it just the building they've used in recent years for still like the looney tunes cartoons?

this poster again

need Looney Tunes out of WB's hands

don't want to risk them falling into Disney's hands

Yep. Looney Tunes is an innocent bystander that got killed for other’s mistakes.

Nintendo. They were radio silent in today's Direct stream, they'll announce it in the next one. Expect Bugs and Daffy to be playable racing characters in the new Mario Kart for Switch 2

It was the typical stale woke garbage like all the rest of the comics, it only used the farting as thinly veiled bait.

WB sells Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry and Scooby-Doo to Paramount

Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry and Scooby-Doo become a part of the Terrytoons library

However, all restoration and preservation of the three iconic franchises (as well as Terrytoons) are put on hold indefinitely as all of this are only mandated by WBD and not Paramount

Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Scooby-Doo and (finally) Terrytoons would air on Nick and would be successful for next few months, only to be screwed over in ratings by SpongeBob and dumped onto its sister channel Nicktoons before being completely forgotten for good

And thus the yellow sponge claims a few more victims

Amazon MGM

what about Lionsgate?

Disney is just gonna own everything, aren't they?

Doubtful. Disney's actually losing money more and more, especially with their shitty live-action remakes, shitty Pixar movies and godawful Star Wars sequel trilogy not making as much profit as the studio hoped

Disney's the next trash fire in line. The parks aren't making the money they need to.

Disney can still afford all the duds. They're a huge conglomerate. even if all their films flop, all their other companies and divisions they own make them money

That's just not true anymore.

Outdated information is outdated, dude

I want to believe that.
I really do

Sony

I'm still scared

Warner's music is worthless nowadays, they only meant something years ago.

Mufasa made up any loss Snow White will. Inside Out 2 made up any loss any of the Pixar slop films did. Moana 2 made up any loss that Wish had. Star Wars damaged the property but they still profited

The theme parks and ESPN are what makes them the boco bucks which allows them to stay afloat while Warner is on heir deathbed and Fox already died

We're all scared, but thankful that Snow White failed at the box office

Fox already died

as a TV corporation, it still lives on. It was just split in half during March 2019 following Disney's purchase and the actual studio was renamed to 20th Century. Plus, it was just an excuse for Disney to get the rights to X-Men, Deadpool and Fantastic Four back in hopes of them being in the MCU, and although both Deadpool movies were doing incredible critically and at the box office, this could not be said with neither X-Men nor Fantastic Four

It's kind of amazing how everyone at the top at WB has no concept of

It's not about what you like, it's what the consumer likes

When Zaslav is very open and direct about how he hates cartoons and does not want to bother with cartoons.

They've straight stated that there is no more room for children's media (idk why they looped LT into that). That out of all of the media they produce, children's media loses them money. It doesn't help that there's like 3 generations of CEOs that worked to sink the brand name.

At the same time them selling LT is a rumor. I checked the sources that everyone is pointing at and it's like some guys podcast that is paywalled. It also mentions like he only heard it from a guy working at WB who even then stated that "they're thinking about it."

Hollywood hates nerds and kids. If the MCU didn't pop off you'll have everyone in the industry shitting on nerd culture. But because it makes fat stacks now, you have them saying how much they love stomping goombas and playing as zelda when they were kids. Shit we still have oscar voters proudly proclaiming that they didn't watch all the nominees for best animation.

The problem is animation is expensive and doesn't fit in with current business models.

cable

Advertising doesn't pay well anymore and the big demographic of 12-18 doesn't watch TV anymore. Which leaves toddlers and their baby shows or manchildren, neither of which advertisers are interested in.

streaming

Is the ultimate "FORGET ABOUT OLD PRODUCT GET EXCITED FOR NEW PRODUCT", which means you want to pump shit out as fast as possible and animation takes time and effort.

movie theaters

Animation will never net you a billion dollars unless you're a big IP like Shrek, so they don't bother.

especially when you have a song from 1893, more specifically, "Happy Birthday," still copyrighted by WMG to this day

I get that right now, it's not making money but popularity comes in waves. It's stupid to dump an asset that might jump back in a decade or so.

I remember when WB sold off a whole bunch of their cartoon library to the Turner Company and then had to wait until they merged with Turner to get them back. Now they're doing this shit again.

That out of all of the media they produce, children's media loses them money

Have they tried not being so bad at it, children's media makes tons of money

The guy is connected ,people say he isn't but he 100% got the new James Bond directors right entirely
It is very feasible with the moves they are making they are looking at offloading this IP

It used to, but not anymore.

Now it's only a matter of time for WBD to finally sell Tom & Jerry and the pre-May 86 MGM library to Amazon MGM

popularity comes in waves

the issue is that they are actively damaging the brand. Like think about what they've actually done for the LT brand in the past 20 years. Shit do people even associate LT with WB anymore? Sure they made the 100 shorts with Browngardt, but the rest is either behind Max. Shit Space Jam 2 was more about their other properties than it was about LT.

Maybe the truth is that WB is sinking much faster than expected?

If you say so. I just find it weird that I've never heard of this guy before, but then again I only pay attention to animation news.

Even Marvel finally ran out of steam, people don't care about MCU like they used to and Marvel Rivals lost its FOTM status.

ENTER

imagine if disney suddenly decided they hated mickey mouse and started scrapping anything that included him

the mentality of everything being a interchangeable and replaceable "product" is a mental illness

Why don't Suspiciously Wealthy Furries pool some money together and buy the Looney Tunes?

Because they are only interested in buying Lola, Bugs, Fifi, and maybe Pepe as a stretch not the entire IP

Animation will never net you a billion dollars unless you're a big IP like Shrek, so they don't bother.

Actually nowadays, Illumination has been dominating box office records than any DreamWorks, SPA, Pixar nor WDAS movie because of their string of mediocre slop with impressive marketing

This but unironically.

I read this as "Warner Bros to rape Looney Tunes at the building lot"

Why did WB sell their soul to AT&T again? Seriously, I didn't see a net positive to anything with that acquisition.

Like I said, big IP.

There was a brief period during the Dot Com bubble when tech companies merging with entertainment companies looked like a good idea. See MSNBC.

idk why they looped LT into that

Cartoons are for kids.

Most movies they've made are IPs or based on existing IPs, dude
The same reason why Time Warner merged with AOL in the early-2000s for a short while

sorry bugs and co., we love you

"children's media loses them money"

Most of the top 20 highest-grossing media franchises of all time are children's media,

Which includes Harry Potter, Batman, and The Looney Tunes.

somebody's brain dead and it not funny, not at all.

>Which includes Harry Potter, Batman, and The Looney Tunes.

no love for Tom & Jerry or Scooby Doo

Apple.

PornHub

That's a perfect description to what they're basically doing to them.

A b-b-b-b-bb-b-b-b-b-b Anal Folks!

Once again idk why they looped it as children's media but Harry Potter and Batman would fall into family media.

This is from deadline

This is part of a new plan whereby the streamer will prioritize adult and family programming. Children’s programming, such as Looney Tunes and Sesame Street before it, doesn’t fare as well and is no longer viewed as a priority.

You can speculate what's family media and what's children's media from there.

shitty live-action remakes, shitty Pixar movies and godawful Star Wars sequels

How hard is it to not make a "shit" movie? or even just a half-decent one?

Christian evangelical churches

dumped onto its sister channel Nicktoons before being completely forgotten for good

There's not even a "Nicktoons" anymore, it all just yellow now.

How the mighty have fallen

it was woke that destroyed Looney toons

Not the retarded ceo who only cared about making money.

i dont see warner selling their music library, so what happens when you have rights to the characters and animation, but not rights to the music?

I believe right after The Flash bombed big time Zaslav put Warner's music library on sale as well
So it's possible Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies and Carl Stalling's recordings will be a package deal

went woke

In what world is Zaslav "woke"? The guy who deleted the raceswapped Batgirl movie and is defending JK Rowling?

cancel all free entertainment in the parks

focus on the Disney adults audience

welfare tickets are a nice cash injection, but the users scare off some of the paying customers

overcharge for everything

shut down iconic attractions

But at least it looks nice for the next quarterly report.

MOTHERFUCKER!!! RUSSIANS ARE SOME MEAN ASSHOLES!!!