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Warner Bros. Reverses Course on ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ After Filmmakers Rebel

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨realcaseyrollins⁩ to ⁨moviesandtv@lemm.ee⁩

The move gave some creatives pause: "I don’t know how you see the movie and then go, 'That couldn’t happen to me.'"

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ZeroCool@feddit.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

Part of Duffield’s frustration, he says, was that Green did everything that was asked of him: he delivered the film, which sources say cost $72 million, on budget. He hit the right test scores. He even moved away from his friends and family to London for 18 months to save the studio money on post-production costs. All this, only to see his film get run off a cliff.

Duffield believes that Coyote can make money — certainly more than the tax write-off.

Any established name in Hollywood with options would be foolish to choose to work with Warner Bros after they’ve done this three times just over a year. Hell, this point you’d be better off trying to make your movie through kickstarter than Zaslav.

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
At this point with how much free press it’s gotten I wonder if it was a publicity stunt

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