Warner Bros. Movie Heads Are Burning Cash, and Their Boss Is Losing Patience
In a closed-door meeting, Zaslav railed against the performance of the film, which studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy had supervised from start to finish after joining Warner Bros. in 2022. Zaslav also decried the mounting costs of the studio's upcoming releases, according to people familiar with the matter who weren't authorized to speak publicly. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. disputed this characterization, calling the meeting 'a straightforward Joker 2 postmortem and a constructive conversation on the slate.'
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