#fuck ceo david zaslav

[tuttle-did-it]

First of all, Scotland, for passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act and trying to protect trans people, thank you. Thank you for treating us as humans, thank you for recognising our identities.

However....

fuck you JK Rowling. fuck your TERF rants that endanger our lives. fuck your Nazi attitudes.

fuck you Police Scotland for proving that you're fucks and will not take this law seriously, even when someone intentionally, repeatedly, maliciously and gleefully breaks this law in a very, very public forum.

fuck you Police Scotland for not only refusing to take action when someone is breaking this law intentionally, repeatedly, maliciously and gleefully, but also proving that 1) this new law will NOT be taken seriously by you 2) this tells every TERF and Tory out there that the law is NOT valid, and that the law does NOT include queer people, specifically in this case Trans people; and 3) this tells every queer/Trans/enby/multi-sex/hermaphrodite person that we are NOT actually protected as this new law promises, and you can and will continue abusing us and destroying our lives. Fucking thanks. Cos it wasn't obvious enough that every day gets more and more dangerous for us trans/enby people, so thanks for just making it clear to the fucking world that even when someone mocks this law openly, you don't fucking care because we are not fucking people. Got it. So fuck you Police Scotland, specifically, for doing NOTHING when someone blatantly flouts this law. Fuck every one of you ACAB fuckers.

fuck everyone who still works with you, Rowling and still even speaks to you after knowing what you are.

fuck everyone who still buys anything related to the Harry Potter franchise knowing the money is going into the pocket of someone like this. Because she sends that money back out to fucking Anti-Trans orgs that hurt us.

fuck you HP fans who plan to watch her new tv show. You cannot be a fan of a massive transphobe trying to destroy us, and an ally at the same time. so fuck you.

fuck harry potter fans who wear HP merchandise stuff knowing what she has said and done, yes I don't care if you bought it before she said it, fuck you because you know exactly what she represents. Not apologising. Yeah, I'm totally judging you if you're wearing HP merch, even if especially if you're queer. I don't care how much HP meant to you as a child. I don't care about fucking nostalgia. I care about the Trans lives that are in danger every day because of monsters like this fucking woman.

fuck you Rishi Sunak for backing and legitimising this horrible woman and her bigotry.

fuck you British politics, fuck you Tories. Fuck you all for destroying this country and making every day more dangerous for Queer people.

fuck you CEO David Zaslav. fuck you Warner Bros. for being willing and happy to work with this fucking woman for her fucking franchise so she can continue to fucking make millions and fucking fund anti-trans orgs.

fuck every single one of who who protects, excuses and funds this fucking behaviour. And fuck every one of you who doesn't give a fuck at everything that is happening.

fuck these fucking fucks. fuck you TERFs and transphobes and fuck every single one of you fucking fucks.

Thank you for trying, Scotland. Thank you.

But please explain to the fucking POLICE and the fucking evil POLITICIANS that this new law means we are legally recognised as protected under the Scottish Hate Crime Act, so they all need to stop fucking about and treat it seriously.

and the fucking PRIME FUCKING MINISTER fucking backing this fucking TERF. I'm not surprised, just angry.

This is on you. so, fuck you if you are supporting these fuckery fucking fucks.

As is EVERY SINGLE FUCKING INCIDENT a trans person has in this fucking country. Every time someone fucking deadnames us, every time someone intentionally misgenders us, every time someone threatens our safety, every time someone fucking assaults us? every single incident is on your fucking head, you fucking fucks.

[life-in-toontown]

David Zaslav never got over the Looney Tunes pushing his mom off of a cliff 😔

[mutopians]

hot take that i don't think is all that controversial: it should be illegal for streaming platforms to take a show/movie off of their platform when it's the one place you can watch it. it's a disservice to both the creators and the fans.

[wilwheaton]

“After meaningful conversations, it is clear that the gap between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA is too great, and conversations are no longer moving us in a productive direction,” the AMPTP wrote in a press release on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, SAG is calling out Hollywood CEOs—including Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Disney’s Bob Iger, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, who are all present during the talks—for low-balling and using “bullying tactics.” “It is with profound disappointment that we report the industry CEOs have walked away from the bargaining table after refusing to counter the latest offer,” SAG’s TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee announced on X on Thursday. “We have negotiated with them in good faith, despite the fact that last week, they presented an offer that was, shockingly, worth less than they proposed before the strike began.”

SAG-AFTRA Strike Looks Bleaker Than Ever as Talks Break Down

Oh, look, the same reprehensible billionaires are using the same failed tactics with SAG-AFTRA that they tried with WGA.

Fuck you, David Zaslav, Bob Iger, and your fellow scumbags. You’re nothing without the creative workers who are the heart of the entertainment industry. All we are asking for is reasonable protections so we can earn a living and qualify for health insurance. You want another helipad on your yacht.

As long as it takes. One day longer, one day stronger.

[lawonderlandwriter]

Okay is anyone else as pissed off about the Heritage GOT auction as I am? They're not just auctioning off stupid shit that's either replica props or duplicates. They're auctioning off HERO PROPS. The items and costumes that were in the actual fucking show, worn and used by the actual actors!!! They're auctioning off LONGCLAW!!! Kit wanted that sword! He DESERVES that sword. And they're auctioning off a bunch of Dany's costumes and wigs and accessories as well, all of which would have made for a beautiful wrap gift for Emilia, of which they gave her NOTHING. She never got a fucking wrap gift aside from a flag her brother stole from set for her. I am literally so fucking mad right now. HBO has no integrity. Warner Bros is so hard up for cash because they're being run into the ground by idiot CEO David Zaslav, they've got to sell off shit from an anchor series just to make rent. Fuck HBO. Fuck Warner Bros. How DARE they.

https://entertainment.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=7366&ic=hero-entertainment-gameOfThrones-auctionDetails-7366-090324

[rjalker]

[ID: A video clip of Adam Conover speaking to his phone, walking down the sidewalk wearing a black shirt and holding a protest sign, saying:

"So this morning, the CEO of Disney went on TV and said that what writers and actors are asking for is not realistic because they just don't have enough money to pay us." The subtitles for this sentence are followed by an exaggerated sad emoji with large shining eyes.

At the top of the video are screenshots of an article reading: "Disney CEO Bib Iger Says Writers and Actors Are Not Being 'Realistic' With Strikes: 'It's Very Disturbing to Me'", with the article written by Ellise Shafer.

The next screenshot is from "Variety" and reads, "Iger said that while he respects the right of the unions to 'get as much as they possibly can in compensation for their people', they must 'be realistic about the buisness environment, and what this buisness can deliver'. Iger continued, 'It will have a very, very". The screenshot cuts off mid sentence.

Adam continues:

"But he said this at a billionaire retreat, where he was hanging out with Mark Zuckerberg and David Zaslav, that they all flew to on their private jets. And you know what? I don't think that's fucking realistic.

"Here's a dose of reality for you, Bob: Writers cannot afford to pay their mortgages. Actors are not able to make a living in Los Angeles anymore. That is reality to us, not flying around on private jets.

"And until you accept that reality, we are gonna be out here on the picket lines, withholding our labor, depriving you of your product, and you will not make another dollar off of us until you come back to the table and face reality and negotiate with us as you have refused to do. And until you do that, there will be no acting, and no writing."

The subtitles for "no acting" and "no writing" are in large red text for emphasis.

End ID.]

[mithos343]

future

I found a book of prophecies at the local business school. All of this will happen in 2026

Schools realizing giving small children Chromebooks is a bit much and start handing out garter snakes instead

Elon Musk tries to invent a version of Scientology based on "epic memes" that just ends up being a bunch of "founders" discussing how to blow up a nearby homeless shelter. Musk escapes all legal evasion because American institutions need to protect him in the name of Rich Man Good

A county school system in the Seattle metro area cut arts, drama, history, and literature and replaces it with the Amazon System For Learn2Code.Biz, featuring Mr. Beast speaking at the graduating ceremony

A reality show about how much landlords cry when they evict people is critically lauded

The bees come back out of nowhere. And nobody knows where they came from or where they were. Everyone decides this is fine, decides not to look a gift horse in the mouth

Jon Taffer, of Bar Rescue fame, runs for Senate and ends up winning by three votes

The American Medical Association says eugenics can be "done right, ethically, thanks to our partnership with OpenAI"

When the US isn't able to buy TikTok, it just floods it with influencers who talk about the "Saudi-Israeli prosperity plan." One of them ends up leading the Neom Secession Movement before being killed by Mr. Beast (not related to the Neom Secession Movement it's a hit and run while he films in Neom)

Former US president William Howard Taft is rumored to be spotted in Henderson, Nevada. This goes viral on Twitter and then it turns out to just be a guy

The Atlantic publishes an article by a war criminal about how philosophy departments need to admit morals are "fake and gay." It turns out the author was ghostwritten by his 14-year-old groyper janissary

An Ivy League law professor opens up a restaurant themed around "what if Olive Garden was authentic." It ends up revealing a massive tax evasion movement that ends up with three senators, seventeen Twitch streamers, and five major CEOs arrested

David Zaslav awarded a cultural medal by George W. Bush, who is somehow president again (to the joy of all Americans)

Mr. Beast supposedly finds the golden plates of Mormonism but buries them again

J. K. Rowling claims that sinking the migrant boat was necessary because they might have been exposed to "transgender ideology"

The Broadway musical of Rick and Morty, starring Jon Taffer as Rick and Mr. Beast as Morty, sweeps the Oscars despite not being a film, in no small part because Broadway partnered with OpenAI, who sponsored the Oscars. The host is made of entire pure ChatGPT and it's found out when someone tries to fuck him on stage.

The private equity epidemic is solved when the president of the United States, Jon Taffer, helps the restaurant and service industry find its niche with safe, corporate logos and mediocre brew. In addition to his presidential duties, Bar Rescue is on its 171th season, which also features Mr. Beast pretending to cure the bartenders' "genetic weaknesses" with his osteopathic touch

[toxicnotebook]

“Fran was amazing. The system has been too unfair to too many for too long, and I think it needs to be remade more fair for everyone,” said another showrunner with multiple shows on the air. The actors strike, which will see newly minted Emmy nominees immediately halt all campaigning and could delay the September ceremony, comes the same day that Disney CEO Bob Iger sparked furor among some SAG-AFTRA and WGA members during an appearance on CNBC in which he said both guilds’ demands were “not realistic.” “Dude demands $45 million a year plus a golden parachute in case he fucks it all up — and we’re the ones being unrealistic? If studios making $30 billion in profit every year are really struggling, take a pay cut, Bob,” wrote David Slack, a former member of the WGA’s negotiating committee. “Then #PayYourWriters.” One showrunner with business at Disney joked that Iger was “stealing the crown” from David Zaslav as the marquee studio villain. “He must owe Zaslav a favor,” said the showrunner. (Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, has become one of the union members’ go-to studio villains after a string of decisions that rankled creatives including announced cuts at Turner Classic Movies and disappearing content from streaming service Max, among other moves designed as part of a multibillion-dollar cost savings push following the merger of the two companies.)

[ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense]

Do you think that your hyperfocus on animation brats/individual ‘terrible’ creators who “just want to make bad art” as being the worst things facing the entertainment industry in the modern day is born more out of your general misanthropy and desire to see the vast majority of them screwed over/fail in everything that they do. OR is it born more out of your toxic capitalist view of the world that sees massive companies/the billionaire CEOs and executives at their tops as the only ones whose views on stories/art matter??

I personally think you’re just an awful misanthropic dipshit and absolutely fucking HAAAAAAAATE seeing others succeeding with anything that isn’t specifically, ONLY fucking pandering to your joyless, incredibly bigoted ass at all times (such as projects that have LGBTQ+ artists/crews leading them). But I certainly can see how your shit flinging “Fuck You, Got Mine” attitude in which you couldn’t care LESS about how much artists that make cartoons/movies that you don’t personally like get severely mistreated and exploited by companies. Does lend itself VERY well to supporting the destructive conservative losers heading many entertainment companies today. (Obviously, David Zaslav immediately comes to mind as one of the ones that your fucking anti-creators beliefs lend themselves the MOST to, but I digress)

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Suddenly, it begins to make sense.

Not that I'm considering the recent report from this "Puck" publication legit, but the rumor that Warner Bros. plans to roll out some long-term Looney Tunes project four years from now, under Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's current head Bill Damaschke... It all tells me...

The offloading of THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP, and the black-holing of COYOTE VS. ACME and BYE BYE BUNNY makes "sense" now. As much as it can, that is. I am not *at all* justifying what CEO David Zaslav has done to those movies or the company in general...

But this is typical merger/transition shit... Just on a whole new, worrying level...

Where the new leaders have a "new" idea for what to do with a property, and whatever was in the works when they got there that doesn't "factor in" to those plans? It just gets nerfed or neglected.

Hence why Warner Bros. isn't distributing a Looney Tunes animated feature, and opts to not release two other pretty-much completed Looney Tunes films...

Most studios would've just dumped the films, quietly released them. Warner Discovery DOES have a streaming service where they could've done that, but Zaslav chose to shelve the movies. And other projects that didn't fit the vision of what he and his brigade want to do with Warners' divisions going forward. BATGIRL, SCOOB! HOLIDAY HAUNT, and others would like a word...

Kinda-sorta similar to what happened when John Lasseter and Ed Catmull were installed as the heads of Walt Disney Animation Studios after Iger's Disney purchased Pixar in early 2006. Lasseter and Catmull looked at what was in the works there, and dramatically changed almost every movie. Chris Sanders got kicked off of AMERICAN DOG and it became BOLT. RAPUNZEL UNBRAIDED went through two iterations before Lasseter found what he wanted in TANGLED. JOE JUMP was eventually scrapped and reimagined as WRECK-IT RALPH, and an Elton John musical called GNOMEO & JULIET got dropped entirely from their slate.

Instead of cancelling GNOMEO, Lasseter just offloaded it to another animation studio. Disney still distributed the film, curiously, as a Touchstone Pictures release. It's a G-rated movie. Touchstone was always meant for adult-oriented stuff.

Lasseter had of course canceled films every now and then, like GIGANTIC and COSMIC 3000. Like most executives do, but these weren't near-completed movies made into tax write-offs.

After Disney bought 21st Century Fox film/TV assets, the gutting happened. Fox 2000 was discontinued, several in-the-works films - such as Wes Ball's CG MOUSE GUARD adaptation - were halted, Blue Sky Studios was completely shut down and all of their in-development films - such as a picture called FOSTER - were abandoned... NIMONA, their swan song, had gotten pretty along, so Disney didn't completely kill that one, they just let someone else have it.

Other similar stories: When MGM bought United Artists in 1981, THE SECRET OF NIMH was in the works. MGM had seemingly little interest in promoting that film upon its summer 1982 release, and kinda just left it to fend for itself; it didn't do all that great theatrically but later found its audience on video. Warner Bros. bought Turner in 1996, and Turner Animation's picture CATS DON'T DANCE didn't matter to them much. They dumped it in early 1997, and it flopped hard.

What Zaslav is doing is a more extreme version of this kind of thing that happens during and after mergers.

His Warner Bros. could've quietly dumped BATGIRL, SCOOB! HOLIDAY HAUNT, and COYOTE VS. ACME if they weren't interested in them. At the very least, but they chose to play this game. And look, their stocks fell, their financial situation ain't lookin' too hot!

So, now it's starting to make sense to me in THAT PARTICULAR WAY. Again, not a justification of this. I hate this, honestly. If you're like 80-90% done with a movie, just fucking release that thing.

COYOTE VS. ACME, BYE BYE BUNNY, and THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP were already in the works by the time Zaslav got there, and he and the new heads just didn't care about them. Okay, fine, but... Still release them. So EARTH BLEW UP saw mercy, but COYOTE VS. ACME and BYE BYE BUNNY didn't... Because they just didn't factor into WB Pictures Animation's new game plan going forward. Neither did SCOOB! HOLIDAY HAUNT, TOTO, and METAL MEN, among other pictures that were in the works there.

Sucks. But if it's true that some new Looney Tunes initiative happens starting in 2028, then that to me is my full answer for why they chose to nerf these movies.

Anyways, keep protesting. Release all of these movies/shows. Zaslav gotta go.

[sweetdreamr]

so i just heard that there will be no season 3 of ofmd

I'm not sad. I'm fucking furious.

Fuck HBO Max, and David Zaslav in particular. Fuck the CEOS that do not understand art, who destroy beauty because it's not immediately profitable, regardless of who put their body and soul into it. Regardless of who it spoke to, who it helped, and who it inspired. Or how many.

Fuck the increasingly narrow group of CEOS that, thanks to corporate mergers that our government only occasionally cracks down on (antitrust laws? don't know her --the USA, probably) are now in charge of what stories get told, and which ones don't.

I am livid.

[wilwheaton]

On August 11, day 102 of the 11,500-person Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which has largely shut down the film industry coast to coast, aided by below-the-line workers respecting picket lines and bolstered by 160,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), who initiated their own strike on July 14, the studios finally returned to the bargaining table. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the organization that bargains on behalf of the major studios, offered counterproposals, a long-awaited response to the WGA’s proposals. The two sides met the following week and continued to exchange proposals. Then, on August 22, day 113 of the WGA strike, the two sides met again, but with an important addition: previous negotiating sessions had been led by AMPTP president Carol Lombardini, the studios’ hired hand, while at this one, the bosses who make the decisions were in the room. Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, and NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley came to the table to face the WGA’s elected leadership in the room outside of the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks, California, headquarters where the negotiations have taken place. Workers, suffering the devastating effects of a months-long strike, hoped that the studios might finally offer counterproposals that meet their needs. Instead, the bargaining session led to further unraveling. “We accepted [the] invitation and, in good faith, met tonight, in hopes that the companies were serious about getting the industry back to work,” wrote the WGA negotiating committee in a message to members following the meeting. “Instead, on the 113th day of the strike — and while SAG-AFTRA is walking the picket lines by our side — we were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was.” The two sides had agreed to adhere to a media blackout, vowing not to leak information about the proposals to third parties. Yet immediately following the August 22 session, the AMPTP publicly released a document highlighting elements of their counterproposal. “This was a meeting to get us to cave,” said the WGA leadership, “which is why, not twenty minutes after we left the meeting, the AMPTP released its summary of their proposals.”

The Hollywood Studios Still Aren’t Serious About Ending the Writers’ Strike

These sociopath CEOs are hearing it from shareholders, who want us to get back to work. The shareholders are making it clear that the psychopath CEOs can release the LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of their compensations to get us back to work.

So the sociopath CEOs put on a big show of coming back to bargain and work this out ... and when the WGA sits down to bargain, these sociopath CEOs have the fucking nerve to just lecture the WGA about how great their absolute garbage offer is. The offer WGA rejected because it didn’t address any of the issues on the table.

These sociopath CEOs are the problem:

Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, and NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley 

These sociopath CEOs are greedy and entitled. That any one of them thought that lecturing WGA, then gaslighting members (in violation of not just the agreed upon media blackout, but likely in violation of labor law) would move us any closer to getting back to work tells you everything you need to know about who the problem is.

Fuck these scumbags, fuck their greed, and fuck their gaslighting.

[bloodmoon24]

Hey, im not sure if you heard and saw, but have you seen the recent drama going around of David Zaslav (he is the CEO of Warner Bros, and the owner of HBO who got rid of some of CN's shows from the streaming app) about deleting a unreleased Looney Toons movie?? Only asking u bc you seem to know ur cartoons really well.

My partner recently showed me a SaberSpark video about it, and it fucking pissed me off. I mean, why do streaming apps like Netflix or other streaming companies always cancel or delete shows/movies off their platforms?! These shows and movies are so enjoyable and loved and they just be like, “Eh, let’s get rid of ‘em. No one would care”. NEWSFLASH!! WE DO!! Inside Job? Cancelled! Moa Moa: Heroes of Pure Heart? Cancelled! Friends? Removed from Netflix!

I swear, it makes me wanna…

[popculturebuffet]

It's announced that Consumer Advocate Lisa McCormick is issuing a call to the U.S. Department of Justice against WBD CEO David Zaslav over the shelving of Coyote vs ACME. Thoughts on how Zaslav may finally face legal consequences for how he treated Coyote vs ACME?

I've heard this song before so we'll have to see. This is the second time someone's called for someone to do something... but something NEEDS to happen as what Zaslav's doing feels sketchy as fuck and really SHOUDLN'T be legal or at hte very least shouldn't be THIS easy to do.

[the-lovely-cambion]

David Zaslav never gave Coyote V Acme a damn chance and he’s deleting this forever.

I was looking forward to this movie, but out of everything, the decision made to permanently shelve the movie just made my blood boil hard. Coyote v Acme had the potential, it had many fans just wanting to watch this film, it was made with genuine talent. Instead, it’s been through hell and it never even got the slightest chance to being seen by the people, all because of a damn decision by a fucked up CEO who’s only in it for the money.

[beeclops]

Allow me to express my deep frustration of the anti-animation, reality-show-addicting, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David Fucking Zaslav into my personal echo chamber of choice...