DC Comics Animation - General Animated Feature News & Discussion Thread, Part 11 (Spoilers)

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I don't think this will affect the DTVs at all, they seem to be off in their own little corner. It was my impression that not only are Timm and Tucker gone, Sam Register has been long gone for over a decade, along with that Greg Novack fellow who kept inserting himself in all the special features and then vanished. I have no idea who runs it now.

And this may be an unpopular opinion, but I find the quality of them now to be consistently horrible, so any change whatsoever could only be an improvement. I would assume that any new blood would look at them and say "this animation is unwatchable, we need to do something," the only other alternative would be canceling the line. Which honestly, it's lasted 15 years, it's gone on so long it's time for some kind of change lest they run it completely into the ground.
 

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I don't think this will affect the DTVs at all, they seem to be off in their own little corner. It was my impression that not only are Timm and Tucker gone, Sam Register has been long gone for over a decade, along with that Greg Novack fellow who kept inserting himself in all the special features and then vanished. I have no idea who runs it now.

And this may be an unpopular opinion, but I find the quality of them now to be consistently horrible, so any change whatsoever could only be an improvement. I would assume that any new blood would look at them and say "this animation is unwatchable, we need to do something," the only other alternative would be canceling the line. Which honestly, it's lasted 15 years, it's gone on so long it's time for some kind of change lest they run it completely into the ground.
Sam Register is still there and running it. He's the president of WBA, CN Studios, HB Studios and still an EP on these DCU movies. And still the person people have to sell TV series on before they pitch the show to networks or streaming series. The supervising producers are now Butch Lukic and Rick Morales for both DTV lines as Timm and Tucker are off working on Caped Crusader plus whatever secret unannounced stuff.

Wouldn't be a stretch if they make Register the third head and add WAG to his responsibilities.
 

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With Zaslav's reign of terror on Warner's budgets, I fear the enjoyable DC DTVs may soon become extinct. Frankly it's a miracle they've lasted this long, but it would be very sad to see them end.
It really has been a miracle. I can think back to when I was trying to collect all of them physically at the beginning. I don't think I would have the shelf space for how many they've released since then.


That line for Deadline is a bit misleading. He's looking for a head of Warner Bros FEATURE Animation (WAG or whatever it will be called), theatrical movies, not TV/DTV's.

I wasn't sure that was something they were even still pursuing after what they did to an almost finished Scoob 2.

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Register's plate is pretty full. I can't imagine WB adding anymore to it, but hopefully he still gets to have some say in the world of DC animation as I do think he has made good decisions over the years and generally has good taste.

WB seem to be the last company digging their heels in with the DTV market. They have clearly gotten the budgets to a reasonable level, so I think they'll be fine. It's always interesting to see what The Numbers highlights about sales. While these numbers do not reflect the full picture (time of release/severity of competition/digital downloads), it is still interesting:

Superman: Man of Tomorrow$3,410,042
Batman: Soul of the Dragon -- $2,431,993
Justice Society: World War II -- $3,640,108
Batman: TLH - Part One -- $3,611,095
Batman: TLH - Part Two -- $2,555,593
Injustice -- $2,711,635
Catwoman: Hunted -- $400,134
Constantine: The House of Mystery -- $366,745
Green Lantern: Beware My Power -- $639,482

2022 seems weak so far.

And for the recent major Blu-Ray boxsets:

Batman: TAS -- $21,562,511
Batman Beyond -- $12,532,347
Superman: TAS -- $2,198,168
The Batman (2004) -- $889,008

It's no wonder WB/DC keeps going back to the B:TAS well.
 
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Register's place is pretty full. I can't imagine WB adding anymore to it, but hopefully he still gets to have some say in the world of DC animation as I do think he has made good decisions over the years and generally has good taste.

WB seem to be the last company digging their heels in with the DTV market. They have clearly gotten the budgets to a reasonable level, so I think they'll be fine. It's always interesting to see what The Numbers highlights about sales. While these numbers do not reflect the full picture (time of release/severity of competition/digital downloads), it is still interesting:

Superman: Man of Tomorrow$3,410,042
Batman: Soul of the Dragon -- $2,431,993
Justice Society: World War II -- $3,640,108
Batman: TLH - Part One -- $3,611,095
Batman: TLH - Part Two -- $2,555,593
Injustice -- $2,711,635
Catwoman: Hunted -- $400,134
Constantine: The House of Mystery -- $366,745
Green Lantern: Beware My Power -- $639,482

2022 seems weak so far.

And for the recent major Blu-Ray boxsets:

Batman: TAS -- $21,562,511
Batman Beyond -- $12,532,347
Superman: TAS -- $2,198,168
The Batman (2004) -- $889,008

It no wonder WB/DC keeps going back to the B:TAS well.
What this tells me is that:

- Batman sells really well (I guess that was a given).

- JSA: WWII managed to do surprisingly well as did MoT, showing there is a market for Superman movies. (I wonder how Supergirl and the Legion's film will do).

- Despite the quality of IJ, it's gaming and market pedigree helped it do well.

- I guess Catwoman, DC Showcase, and GL are more niche (comparitve to Batman and Superman) so I'm wondering if there were any specific expectations to gauge how WB might regard their sales. I'm curious how Challenge of the Super Sons does.
 

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I am just holding out hope that we get The Zeta Project and Static Shock complete series Blu Ray sets ASAP. That way we can have the entire DCAU in HD on disc before all of this stuff gets shelved or something.
 

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2/1/23: Butch Lukic teases we will see the full force of the Justice League in the next couple of DTV movies over the next 2 to 3 years.

3/2/23: New year, new Batman Beyond movie rumor.

7/18: WHE teases 2024 line up will be revealed this week.

7/21: 2024 line up announced at SDCC are Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen.

Lukic hints more new characters are coming.

Lukic said 2 movies are done, a 3rd is in development, and he's not sure after that. Also revealed they almost got Al Pacino in one of the past movies.

Lukic hints future movies will focus on the Bat-family.

7/25: Comic-Con interview with Butch Lukic, Ernie Altbacker, Jim Krieg, Jeff Wamester, and Jeremy Adams.

12:32 We originally were. We talked about Kingdom Come as an afterwards after this but the change in regimes, we couldn't go forward with it. They might incorporate it in the future with the new world but that was one we talked about as a obvious possibility to continue not this continuity but something more Justice League and larger.

7/28: Summary from SDCC.

7/31: James Gunn confirms there will be animated theatrical moves set in the new DC Universe movie/TV canon.
 
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Updates:

Scooby-Doo & Krypto, Too! releases on September 26, 2023 both Digital & DVD (please ignore the movie leak online months ago)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two releases on October 17, 2023 Digital; October 31, 2023 for physical release.

The slate for 2024 includes Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen.

Separate topics for the new titles (as well as Talkbacks for all the movies that couldn't be covered here since the site went offline) will be posted soon.
 

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Updates:

Scooby-Doo & Krypto, Too! releases on September 26, 2023 both Digital & DVD (please ignore the movie leak online months ago)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two releases on October 17, 2023 Digital; October 31, 2023 for physical release.

The slate for 2024 includes Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen.

Separate topics for the new titles (as well as Talkbacks for all the movies that couldn't be covered here since the site went offline) will be posted soon.
Why do I suspect that COIE and Watchmen will both be 2-parters?
 

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