Top 10 WORST Decisions Made By Movie Studios
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2022
- Film studios and bad decisions seem to go hand in hand. For this list, we’ll be looking at detrimental choices made by film studios that either ended up hurting themselves or their own products. Our countdown includes "Star Wars" sequels, the re-release of "Morbius", rushing the release of "Justice League" and more! Which of these decisions stunned you the most? Is there an instance you wish we’d included? Let us know in the comments!
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I know one decision that stunned me the most. Sony Pictures cancelled the animated Popeye film so they focused on The Emoji Movie, a critically panned film. Aw man, I wonder the Popeye the Sailor animated movie would look like if Sony had not cancelled it.
their worst decision of all was going w0ke
Dumbo 2, Gigantic, the animated Popeye and other movies being cancelled, The Emoji Movie, Spider-Man 3, etc. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I'm not sure how the cancellation of Batgirl ranks up there with any of these others. We haven't seen it so we'll never know what would have come of it. Who knows? A released version may have been part of this list for have been released at all.
Disney buying 20th Century Fox and shutting down Blue Sky Studios, Disney buying Lucasfilm, Marvel, the remakes for Cinderella, Pete's Dragon, Mulan, The Lion King, Malificent aka the live action Sleeping Beauty remake no one asked for, etc. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
1st rule of a cinematic universe:
"You do NOT tell everyone that you're making a cinematic universe"
I appreciate the fightclub joke, but you do tell people you're making a cinematographic university that's what you're doing, what you don't do is screw it up at the first outing, nor do you try to set up too much of that universe within the movie themselves.
The sad thing is that I DID want The Dark Universe to be a thing. The Universal Monsters did it all first.
So the Split method of universe building?
What’s the second rule?
@@attiasprouse682 do not imitate the MCU
The number of bad decisions made by WB in regards to the DCEU could practically fill another Watchmojo list
The 2016 suicide squad being one of them
With all due respect, Batgirl probably would've been a mess, I'm not saying it deserved to get canceled but it shouldn't been placed after the Flash because it spoiled a lot of stuff before it came out and plus it wasn't like it was come out in theaters anyway but seriously, I feel bad for the cast and crew who put a lot of work into making the movie, only for the plug to get pulled however it's not like Leslie Grace got fired, they are planning to using her a in another project, just not in her own movie, at least for now.
The DCEU is a mess; it’s always been a mess.
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@@davisphillips993 All because of the all mighty dollar
If Spider Man 3 hadn’t had Venom, I firmly believe we would have seen a fourth Sam Raimi Spider Man movie
Yeah. I love Venom, but it was too much. He should have only survived fighting Sandman and Hobgoblin because of the suit; only to reject it in the end anyway. Then Venom for the 4th film.
I would have liked to see more of what Sandman could do. I saw a lot of potential for him going in but he ended up hardly doing anything in the movie that I remember.
I really felt Thomas Hayden Church was the only great part of Spiderman 3. I could sympathize with his character and it felt pretty genuine.
@@Spikes01k I agree. Maybe one day soon we’ll get another Raimi Spider Man movie. We can always hope
Honestly Venom wasn't the sole problem. Dancing emo Peter, the soap opera amnesia subplot with Harry, the butler that could have saved years of heartache if he just told Harry the truth years earlier, and ending the film with Peter having to save MJ yet again during the climax are some other issues I had with the film. Remove Venom and it's still the weakest film in the trilogy.
A perfect candidate for this list would be the Last Airbender film. The studio forced the director to use more well known actors instead of using actors that fit the ethnicity of the original source material and they took away things (like jokes) that would have made it appeal more to the target audience (and to fans of the cartoon)
I had to take my stepson to see it. I had a passing understanding and what I saw had almost nothing to do with what little I knew. It was both whitewashed and horrible.
You forgot to mention the Theatrical Cut of Justice League where WB spent 300 million dollars to completely reshoot and rewrite the film to add more jokes and quips because they thought the Snyder Cut wasn't good enough.
I really liked The Snyder cut
And they used a test screening which never even happened to justify the changes...
@@neK6299 Wait What?
The original two-sequel "on Earth" concept of _Alien3_ would've been *incredible* but bad scripts, bad ideas (David Twohy), the writers strike, the end of the Cold War, even worse ideas (Vincent Ward), & Fox pushing a release date completely f***ed it up. It's a crime against cinema that _Alien3_ was so mishandled.
I prefer the Audio Version of Alien3
I want to see alien 3 redone with that concept by fincher. Redeem his only bad movie for a perfect list
The Batgirl cancelation wasn't that bad, the bad decision is not cancelling the flash movie along with batgirl.
That's doubly asinine.
@@redrick8900 right
Right, people think that it was already shot so there wasn't much left to spend to get it out. But just because it's in the can doesn't mean it's done. There's post-production and advertising. That said I would think they would at least get a streaming distribution of it unless it looked like it would bomb and would never recover the sunk cost. One day we may see a little of this and see what a stinker it would have been.
@@kevinraper114 False. Post production was already done. Some people felt they should do more on it.
Batgirl & Flash is okay compared to what I'm about to tell ya,
You know there's a whole show called BATWOMAN that deserves All Cancelation and disgrace to entire Human understanding of sensibility to sue that show
But still keep going like blind as a bat shit stupid logic
Nobody really watches it literally nobody interested in it
The common thread that I’m seeing with Warner brothers is that they can’t seem to leave well enough alone. It seems like every time that they handed success on a silver platter they they have to mess with it.
batgirl is s success ?
@@soulreaver1046 no
Pretty much describes their music division, when they literally razed it to the ground years before...
Here's one that nobody knows:
Hiring the writers from MORBIUS to write MADAME WEB
😬
god help us. . . .
They also did some other mediocre action movies, like The Last Witch Hunter and Gods of Egypt. But they also co-developed Netflix’s good Lost in Space series, so at least they have some potential
@@najhoant but not for movies
It's okay, WatchMojo. You can have Warner Bros take all 10 spots.
You got that right.
Yes
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No really we INSIST, watch mojo
They are the worst Movie studio, even before, at the present time and in the Future. 🤣
“But hey, at least there’s always the Mandalorian.”
That is a massive understatement
And Obi-Wan. And animation.
And book of boba fett
And Star Wars Land
It's overhyped, it's clearly the best thing Disney has done with this franchise but that isn't saying much.
If I've said it once , I've said it a thousand times. If The Rise of Skywalker killed star wars , then The Mandalorian revived it.
Firing Johnny Depp based on an Amber Heard lie - Pirates of the Caribbean
Well duh, spineless companies fear the cancel mobs.
Might affect their bottom line
Johnny Depp was an asshat in that relationship. He was abusing drugs and alcohol. It also became evident that his legal team suppressed and deceptively edited video making her look worse.
And I am in no way dismissing her behavior. She was abused but not a blameless victim.
Batgirl was going to be so bad they deleted it off the face of the earth right there with New Coke, Major League Jai-Alai and the Arch Deluxe
unfortunately Batgirl movie 🎬 cancel
Miss you, Arch Deluxe
Including killing off Michael Keaton's Batman
Batgirl would have been unintentional comedy gold. Seeing a 5'2, 110 pound girl beating 6'3, 220 pound men in fist fights and other physical acts with a healthy dose of the "see, women are just as good as men" propaganda.
You don't know that
David Zaslav made the ABSOLUTE RIGHT DECISION in axing Bat Girl. And here's the myriad of reasons why.
1. No one was asking for Bat Girl.
2. The movie not only tested horribly with audiences but several Execs thought it was absolute garbage.
3. No one, and I mean NO ONE, was signing up for HBO Max for this movie.
4. End of the day, they made the right financial decision because they got more money from tax write offs than they would have by releasing theatrical (not to mention the added marketing costs to the existing budget) or by gaining new subscribers via streaming.
5. Lastly, if DC is EVER going to get their shit together, it takes a David Zaslav to have the balls to say NO, WE WILL NOT CONTINUE TO PUT OUT DOG SHIT QUALITY MOVIES! It's what DC has needed for the last decade.
The most accurate comment on this entire thread!!!!!🎉
Kathleen Kennedy: "We're making a new trilogy"
Fan: "What's gonna be about?
Kennedy: "A good question for another time"
Fan: "So there's no plan?"
Kathleen Kennedy: "We're making it for the fans" [actual quote]
Fan: "Which fan?"
Kathleen Kennedy: "The uncritical, lowest common denominator fan with passing familiarity of the IP. We've got toys & Disney rides to sell, kid."
there was no plan for the new trilogy when starwars was bought out they literally took it a movie at a time as far as plot. Imean Geez. How the hell do you not plan ahead?
@@HMcQ7891 If that were truly who they made it for(hint: It isn’t), then you wouldn’t have anything to complain about at all.
You know you ignoring the plan doesn’t make it disappear, right?
Cancelling Batgirl was the best decision WB has made in a long time. That was a welcome surprise. Also, George Lucas did have an outline for the SW sequel trilogy. Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger decided not to use it. Leading to the greatest creative disaster in film history. Let's see if it's topped by Amazon's LOTR show.
I was upset that Brendan Fraser isn’t going to get his movie return and villain role as Firefly but hopefully his other movie works out well
@@AcetonBeralther That is the one thing that sucks because I do like Brendan Frasier as an actor. Hopefully, DC will keep him on for a different movie.
@@zacritner208 yeah a lot of ppl never do the math with the 1st time we see Rey in her home. It's called "showing not telling", something that ppl always want but hardly understand
@@AcetonBeralther He actually has a highly talked about film coming out called "The Whale" it already has Oscar buzz around it and his performance. Plus he is in the loved show Doom Patrol.
@@zacritner208 Oh really, then why is it reviled by most of the fanbase? Why is it that Lucasfilm won't tell any stories during or after the events of the sequels the way they did with the prequels and the originals.
Batgirl cancellation is probably one of the best decisions WB made in a long time
We will never know since it was in postproduction. They gave Snyder $70 million to remake Justice League into a slightly less mediocre film
@@JerseyNYC83 what a disingenuous statement
Right?
Sure. They just canned a completed movie burning bridges with tons of creative, ticked off fans, and stuck the tax payers with the bill for a movie they won't show.
@@JerseyNYC83 The original version of Justice League was better.
Batgirl had a CW type of plot.
Canceling it was a good thing.
Or do you guys want the same birds of prey garbage feast?
If it were more part of the DCEU, it would be a different story.
Cw? What does that mean?
@@KarlSturmgewher maybe.
@@Droidsbane so you’re talking about a subject that you have no experience in or knowledge of?
“Bye Felicia”
@@AncestorEmpireGaming no, I'm genuinely asking and don't know what it means. I have seen people talking about CW, but no one's said what its an acronym for
I wish Rami got his way with Spiderman 3, then we would have seen what he would've done next.
WB had a choice with Batgirl, spend more money or get the tax breaks and they probably made the better business decision. Alien 3 is sad because there's a good movie in there but too much bulls@@@ that ruins it. I enjoy the Hobbit movies but I really wish that they would've stayed with the 2 movies. The biggest failure on this list is the Disney Star Wars trilogy, they just f@@@@d everything up, the single biggest failure in movie history is not having Han, Leia and Luke share screen time in AFA.
Batgirl was knowingly gonna be bad…but the 3 people on twitter voices are played to be the majority of people when it comes to the media or entertainment industry…when most of the world doesn’t care
There was no excitement for that movie and only heard chatter when it was canceled.
@@Jaxvidstar true
canning Batgirl honestly gets my attention alot more as far as WB’s plans for DC. Good call imo
Yeah cause we might of gotten a movie as bad as captain marvel
@@maskedhoodie948andtheoutca2 how do you know unless it could have happened?
I agree. I was already pissed they were jumping to a Batgirl without first making a Robin movie. It felt clueless.
@@joewilenzik9119 because the story idea was for batgirl to replace Batman and to make her the strong independent female character
@@joewilenzik9119 I also said might pal
Not releasing Batgirl sounds like it was the right move. The test screenings went terrible.
They were reportedly as good as those of Shazam, the 2017 It movie and the upcoming Black Adam movie, so that story isn’t holding up anymore.
@@najhoant I'm reluctant to believe the test screening thing. They said the same thing about Justice League, but no test screening took place. WB lied, than used to lie to justify the changes... and Joss Whedon.
Finally, a new movie studio exec who realized that going woke means going broke. I bet the worst decision was to green light the project to begin with.
Yeah but can we PETITION TO CANCEL THE ABOMINATION OF A SHOW CALLED BATWOMAN
@@drw_predator Way to keep up with the times, buddy; it’s already been cancelled as part of a whole series of cutbacks at the CW that cancelled eight shows in total
Avi Arad is the butcherer of films because he thinks whatever he thinks is right, I can’t believe he is struggling now! Honestly the power of making the film should be equal with the director(s), producers, studio, and most importantly fans having all an impact on the film! No one should over take each other! Problem is that people are selfish one way or another!
Borderlands and Kraven The Hunter are next
They'll be as bad as MORBIUS
There is a hilarious and menacing photo of him and trump with each other through smoke, and nothing you say about his business prowess is surprising considering his actions, choices, and chosen affiliates and friends 😂
The fact that Topher Grace's Venom was only given a jokey throwaway line in "No Way Home" says everything about what a disaster it was. Yes, Grace was coming off "That '70s Show" and a few decent movies, but his Venom was so miscast that it pretty much killed his career there and then.
Canceling batgirl was the best decision DC and WB have made in a decade. The movie kills off batman and establishes batgirl as the only bat in continuity. St. Zaslov killed it so it did not completely devalue the entire DC universe. Supergirl was killed at the same time but was not as far into production but it also killed off superman leaving supergirl as the only kyrptonian in the DCU. His choices on batgirl were write it off for 100 mil and burn the negatives or release it and make 60 milllion only to have it do 2 billion dollars of damage to the concept of DC comics.
The Batgirl cancellation was a smart move cuz the test audience said the movie was boring beyond belief so it probably would’ve been a financial failure if it made it to theaters and plus there was a ton of woke stuff in it which people are getting sick of which adds to the possibility of it failing at the box office.
That's what i think too. Maybe it really sucked so much that it would've killed off the DC universe. Being woke is fine and all but only if it works and makes sense within the movie. Pushing woke characters for the sake of being woke comes off fake. I was never a fan of batgirl and couldn't see a transition to the big screen. I always thought the movie was always a mistake.
They cancel Batgirl because was too woke for the new CEOs.
I still want to see it
It was never going to be a theatrical release. It was always set for streaming 🙄
Yeah but Batgirl got the same rating percentage as Black Adam and yet Black Adam is getting released. Plus, Batgirl just finished production and was about to be released and because of the cancellation, they lost a LOT of money.
When George gave Star Wars to Disney he also gave them a game plan which would’ve had Maul and his criminal empire which would’ve been 50 times better
Also Darth Talon was gonna be his apprentice, which would’ve been awesome
And y'know what Kathleen Kennedy did with that game plan? She put it through the shredder.
I know the SW universe went on after the original trilogy mainly through books (never read any) but even basing the sequel trilogy on some of what happened in the books would have been better than the discombobulated money grab Disney gave us. Its a shame they didn't at least stick with the what Lucas had laid out.
Then Krazy Kathy decided to make the entire star wars universe revolve around Leia's uterus only to have the actress overdose and die.
@@williamcrowe2576 oh she put it in the shredder and burnt the scraps
You also forgot to add Wes Craven's Cursed where the Weinsteins completely sabotaged what sounded like a pretty good werewolf flick.
I don’t suppose you’ve seen the UNRATED version?🤷♂️
@@liampatrick3110 I'm talking about Wes Craven's Director's Cut which was never released.
Cursed would have been good if not for the Weinstein's fucking it up.
@@williamsummerson1204 Exactly same for the Crow City of Angels
@@TPoyser facts
Cancelling Batgirl was most likely the best move they could do the movie didn’t sound good.
They did a test screening and found out it was worse tha BATMAN AND ROBIN
The people who are upset about Batgirl being canceled are the same people who think CW's Batwoman was a great show.
False. Even if Batgirl is bad it should get released.
@@redrick8900 nope
@@redrick8900 movies are a product. They coat money to make. So no, objectively you're wrong. If it would have lost money, it is not a smart or responsible business decision to released it. All of the Twitter brownie points in the world, mean nothing. It's a business. A bunch of people saying "yaaass queen" isn't worth millions of dollars potentially lost.
Dude, I've never seen Batwoman but I am upset about Batgirl being canceled because I had hopes of it being like Wonder Woman and I'm pretty sure that the main reason that they canceled it was because of idiots who don't like female leads.
@@yukikitsune7366 sure my friend sure
Cancelling Bat Girl was the best decision they could have made! Not sad about it at all.
I don’t even care about batgirl movie we never asked for this
Will save them 100m even after spending 90m. They saw what happened in Phase 4 and know that it wasn’t the way forward. Smartest move by far!
I am
Keeping AVI ARAD in charge was the worst decision Sony had done
He ruined SPIDER-MAN 3 and MORBIUS
Now he's gonna ruin BORDERLANDS and KRAVEN THE HUNTER
The same way he ruined TASM2 and UNCHARTED
Morbius was doomed anyway. Leto doesn’t have the fan base or pull like Tom Hardy does.
Leonardo stop judging movies that are not out yet. We do not know how kraven and borderlands will unfold.
@@daniellewis3850 wanna make a bet?
No let’s not make any bets. I am just telling you that it is not fair to hedge movies that are not out yet because they are still being worked on. It is like grading a school assignment that is not complete before it’s due date. Right now kraven and borderland do not have any trailers out yet
I mean it is not fair to judge movies that are not out yet
Canceling batgirl was the best thing that have happened in a long time
Uh, do we really know if cancelling "Batgirl" was a bad move? Apparently it's woke beyond repair.
No, the new WB Discovery owner, a veteran of reality shows, is too cost conscious. Many of his decisions have been concentrated on HBO Max.
My thoughts exactly. I'm almost sure the movie would suck
what do u mean "woke beyond repair" bc they casted a black women to play a cartoon character
@@Erika-ox3tq what is more racist ...
A-a person is picked solely because of his/her skin color and then the movie producers openly bragging about it.
B- picking someone based solely on his/her acting ability regardless of skin color and sticking to the source material
cause woke morons like the mcu and hollywood seem to think option A is best
@@Erika-ox3tq nope. Bc the movie as a whole was apparently beyond woke. Come up with less lazy arguments then "uh racism"
Batgirl looked pretty bad, they might have done us all a favor.
Yes I think they did
I did not know anyone that was excited for it. Seems like a perfect option for streaming though.
@@AdamOMcMurphy If it was streamed the studio could not use it as a tax write off, also they were trying to improve the DC brand to make it more profitable in the future.
@@americansupervillain4595 That’s not what they were trying to do at all. And even if it were, they failed miserably.
@@truechad747 Then you don’t do much thinking at all.
I got an idea for your next video: Top 10 Dumb Decisions Following The Warner Bros/Discovery Merger
The CNN+ being a thing prior to the companies merging, there were barely 10K daily views before the plug was pulled.
I've always been of the feeling that Sandman and not Venom who was the odd man out, because they both represented different aspects of the consequences of his decisions, while the retcon of Uncle Ben's death add very little to Peter's emotional arc.
Except that adding Venom at the behest of management had to change the overall story. If Sandman and Harry were the only two villains, their story arcs would likely have been much different/better.
Sam Raimi told them that he didn't know enough about Venom to do him properly and Avi pushed for it anyway.
I have one question after seeing this video------
How many times WB botched a great film & after how many times more they will understand?! 😐
Notice how the only movies dropped from Warner Bros Discover DC films are "Batgirl" and "Supergirl" are superhero movies with women in the lead.
Yet they keep a movie with a lead who has groomed minors.
Kingdom of Heaven is another one, the theatrical cut the studio forced out got mixed reviews and was largely forgotten soon after it came out. Scott's directors cut however was phenomenal, one of the best historical epics of its time.
I'm still made about Batgirl! I was hoping her long curse of Batman & robin would finally end.
But no, They had to pull the plug. Now he have to wait even longer for her.
Dude now everytime I hear “Warner brothers” I get scared for the movie coming out. And when I hear it in videos like this I think “oh god again WB? How have you not fired these people? How do you keep making horrible mistakes?”
One I can think of is when Universal cashed in on Mike Myers and forced him to star in The Cat in the Hat and adding in a lot of adult humor in a film that was meant to be for kids which led to Dr. Seuss' widow banning all live-action adaptations of his work and reduced them to animated films.
To be fair, I was quite young when I saw the Cat in the Hat but I never realised what a guilty pleasure it was until later on.
Not a movie but a TV show that would fit perfectly in this list is "Kung-Fu" (1972) starring David Carradine. It was well received but could have been a classic. According to Carradine the show was supposed to star Bruce Lee (yes, the legend). Unfortunately, Bruce Lee was not cast because as one of the ABC executives said, "You can't make a star out of a five-foot-six Chinese actor." What a loss. On the other hand, Charles Manson rejected as a Monkee hand was a good choice.
Not surprised to see you people carrying water for Batgirl and claiming this trash has actual fans ...
It was cancelled for being too woke for even Hollywood, and rumor has it they were planning to do Michael Keaton dirty and kill his batman and replace him with her second rate Batgirl in a new version of a justice league movie in a post flashpoint new cinematic universe, so due to how woke it was and how tenuous the possibility of new flash movie that would have led into it is of actually happening, they scrapped it.
number 3 wasn't really a mistake, as someone who got to see the test screening (and without saying too much just in case)
The main actress was abismal, her acting chops just were NOT up to task
there was no reason for her to be a POC considering both parents were white as well.
the story was boring
Michael Keaton only made a return for a few short scenes which felt pushed in to make people want to see the movie
Though his costume needed abit of work Brendan Frasier as firefly was pretty cool and it was clear he and michael keaton were the only ones putting their acting chops on display even though they were barely in the film.
I'm hoping they do another film maybe with keaton as an older batman taking on firefly and batgirl as his sidekick along with robin/knightwing that would be pretty good if they don't mess it up like they did with this one
Keaton was supposed to be in The Flash movie, which I believe is also possibly getting axed.
Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing Michael Keaton as an Elderly Bruce in a Batman Beyond project, he could fit that role well.
@@kamenrider5ds60 honestly id love that too but they'd need the right Terry mcguiness and honestly.... I know this will sound really stupid but Tom Holland or Andrew Garfield could do that
@@jaycornu3351 no you're not wrong I could see either Holland or Garfield as Terry, Both are solid actors in their own rights and I can see both pulling off the role when paired with Michael keaton's Bruce.
@@kamenrider5ds60 omg I’ve been thinking why not do a Batman Beyond movie for FOREVER!!! Makes so much sense to me
I would've lumped Event Horizon in with Alien 3. Both of those were foolishly rushed.
I still enjoy Event Horizon, I actually just rewatched it recently
I like event horizon.
Event Horizon is a cult movie!
I didn’t ‘hate’ Alien 3. It definitely could have been better though. The actors were mostly British, which helped make the acting level much higher, but the script killing off Newt and Hicks started the movie off with a massive sour note. It made it seem that all the crap Ripley, Newt and Hicks endured was for absolutely nothing. I understand about Newt since the actor had grown up, but simply killing the characters off seemed like lazy writing. But the real issue I had personally was the CGI. I know it was very much in its infancy at that time, but if the studio hadn’t been so cheap, and hired a company that was really good at CGI like Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) it would have looked fantastic. With proper CGI Alien 3 could have been a decent movie. My opinion of course. But the actors all did a great job.
The characters killed of in the beginning kills a lot of it too for me,(a little of topic) but I felt the same way when I saw underworld blood wars were they killed of Michael off screen.
Cancelling Batgirl wasn't bad decision, it was a cutting loss decision. They had made so many bad decisions with the DCEU movie, and based on evidence and fan-ratings and the plans for the movie, they realized that the movie would cost them to lose even more fans and chase them away, which would hurt future projects. So they decided to scrap what would likely be a major flop to save money in the long run and be able to do a Batgirl movie right in the future.
I agree
Top 10 Worst Mistakes TV Networks Made FOX and Nickelodeon can take half the spots on the list
It's really ironic that FOX animations and Nick animations have similar history
Rugrats/ Spongebob = The Simpsons
(All of them dominated the world and became iconic franchises)
The Fairly Oddparents = Family Guy
(Both of them became worse later seasons. Also, Seth McFarlane and Butch Hartman were roommates and created a cartoon named Zoomates)
The Loud House = Bob's Burgers
(Both are started to air in recent years and became very popular. Although, after FOP cancelled, The Loud house turned into Nick's Family Guy)
Don't Forget Mad TV and All That In 94 and 95 respectively
Who is going to wanna work with WB after what they did to Batgirl?
Like, what directors or writers are gonna go to WB to make their movies if WB has now shown that they will toss them away just "for tax write offs" or "because they don't fit the brand."
You are acting like that it is the first time happening. It is common in hollywood. Nothing new here.
The movie was shown to a test audience and they found the movie to be incredibly boring to sit through so if it went to theaters then it would’ve probably been a financial and critical failure and would only make WB lose more money.
@@Wingedlight-nn4hl it had similar test score of It and Shazam and it still end up being released and gain positive reviews and box office hits
Seeing as we'll never see it, I think putting Batgirl getting scrapped on this list is a mistake because we'll never know if it was a good or bad decision.
Justice league 2017 could take no 1 stop... It's problematic from start to finish... WB messed up Big time
The lesson here is that Studios need to stop assuming that bad results from test screenings mean the film won't work when given a wider release.
They don't need to do anything. The studio is the one that pays for the movie to get made. If they want to scrap it, they can. That's life. Sometimes they lose money as a result, sometimes they save money. Either way it's their money
The ORIGINAL Star Wars movies made in the 70's should've been THE ONLY Star Wars movies. After Star Wars Episode VI, the movie that has Luke fighting Darth Vader, the series should've been left well enough alone.
I get that mindset even if I enjoy somethings in the PT but Disney killed it for me and I still haven't even watched episode 9 because it just feels pointless.
Morbius may've gotten bad at box office but my dad and I enjoyed it and hope for sequels, including crossovers with Venom and MCU. Dark Universe started with Dracula Untold, but got a good ending with Invisible Man even if the middle was terrible. They could continue with sequels to those and say they've "rethought" the whole thing as separate instead of together.
Morbius and ghost rider should've been shot more like a horror film and if you've ever read the comics from the 80s and 90s that's what they felt like. It should've been darker with gore.
The obvious choice for introducing dark universe should've been Frankenstein and not the mummy because franky would've set the tone. People were expecting a version of the mummy like the Brendan Frasier trilogy. Plus Tom cruise was a poor choice in my opinion.
You do franky or Dracula to set the tone, have an end credit scene hinting at the next in line then bring on the mummy, the bride, and the creature. Then you have a horror version of the anti-avengers
You know WB Discovery messed up when watchmojo already puts them on their list of the worst decisions made by a movie studio.
cancelling batgirl was a good move
I feel really sorry for the Batgirl cast! They must have been devastated!
They got what they deserved for making a film so bad that everyone who didn't work on it that has seen it say it is embarassingly bad by even film school standards, and that is before it kills off batman to make batgirl the only bat in gotham. It has been described as a steaming pile of film generated by nepotism beneficiaries and completely clueless diversity hires that makes that harly quinn solo movie that was turned into birds of prey look like The Maltese Falcon.
@NK Don't, they got paid.
1. Topher Grace's Eddie Brock/Venom inclusion is one of the main reasons why I love watching Spider-Man 3.
2. People should seriously stop whining about Batgirl.
Grace was never meant to be Venom tho. It was meant to be another actor though I don't remember who
A classic example of this (if you're willing to go back this far) is Robert Wise's re-editing of Orson Welle's "The Magnificent Ambersons." It's still considered a masterpiece, but the studio interference can only make us wonder how much better Welle's original cut would have been.
What a list this is thanks for sharing
The funniest screw-up recently was the one with the Divergent. The series is based on a book trilogy, they planned one film for each book. The first two films did okay, but well enough to secure sequels. Then rather than capping the trilogy off sensibly, Lionsgate got greedy and decided to split the final book into two films. The first film released, then ended up bombing, so the finale never happened.
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No. It quite literally didn’t. Especially since many of said expectations set up by Episode 7, weren’t based on anything that was actually IN Episode 7.
Alien 3 has an interesting backstory.The studio rented alot of studio space in England and had a specific filming and release date.The studio had a few scripts to choose from.There was a script where Ripley lands on a planet thats inhabitant by monks that doesn't use any technology.Then there's the William Gibsons script,which showed Ripley,Hicks and Newt fighting the aliens on a big space station.
Batgirl is one of the worst movies to almost come out. So WB Canceling of Batgirl was the best thing they did because the movie would have failed.
I doubt it was ever gonna be that bad. A scooper corrected that the test audience didn't hate it THAT much
On cancelling Batgirl all the stuff the new CEO of WB is saying about how “We’re not going to put a movie out unless we believe in it. That’s it,” and how “The objective is to grow the DC brand, to grow the DC characters, but also our job is to protect the DC brand, and that’s what we’re going to do.” gives me some hope for the future DC movies. Let's face it something had to change in how DC movies were being done because far too much of the current stuff just wasn't working (to put it lightly). Now I just have to wait and see if those hopes will be realized or if it will just end in disappointment.
Ruemor has it Batgirl the movie killed off batman and made him out to be a scam artist who was taking advantage of gotham until batgirl found out and stopped him and turned gotham against his memory. Supergirl was not as far along in production as batgirl but it also killed Kal-el and left Kara as the only Kryptonian on earth.
@@From-North-Jersey Yeah I heard about those rumors too. If they were true I have to wonder what they were thinking in killing off two of DC's most beloved hero's. Did they not think that that might cause some problems with people wanting to see those movies as well as future DC ones? It also comes off as very woke which will scare even more people off.
@@ericbeilmann3649 The woke writer does not seek to entertain, it seeks to destroy what is loved and confiscate what provides escapism. The woke writer does not see killing batman for good as a mistake, they see it as progress and a correction of historic wrong-think.
I don't think it's true Disney didn't have a plan. I think things easily could have skyrocketed in quality after Force Awakens. Its my opinion that Rian Johnson came in with fanatical ideas and the words to back them up, he swooned the wide eyed and eager Kathleen Kennedy into an artsy and mysterious take on Star Wars, and the plans they did have were thrown completely out the window once Rian started drawing up his ideas. He just swindled the whole room. When it blew up in their face, Disney had nothing they could do but damage control, and that's exactly what Rise of Skywalker is.
Ryan was a dagger hired to assassinate luke skywalker nothing more, his nefarious actions were Krazy Kathies idea and intention all along. Johnson was specifically hired because he told Krazy Kathy he didn't like starwars movies.
Since Kathy doesn't like star wars movies either she was trying to turn the Star Wars universe from the story of Luke Skywalker into the story of Leia Skywalker. Mostly I would imagine to punish Spielberg and Lucas who always politely told her to stop interrupting the talented people with stupid ideas and go seduce another old rich man into writing a check to cover the special effects.
@@zacritner208 Sorry skip but I am dead on balls accurate with this one. The official policy on Kathleen Kennedy from Lucas and Speilberg their entire lives has been "She is horrible at taking notes, and very good at interrupting people by proposing bad ideas."
She hit the ground running at lucas film by firing half of the writers(all males) and she hired females who did not know anything about , or like starwars in the slightest, then she put pictures of luke skywalker up with the Don't symbol(circle and slash like the ghost busters logo) over his face. Then she had custom "The Force Is Female" t-shirts printed up, and fired another 25% of the qualified males working at lucas film and replaced them with more non starwars fan females fresh out of college.
Then she hired Ruin Johnson a man who hates starwars to do the second movie of a three movie trilogy, and the first thing he did was destroy everything that was supposed to survive to the third movie, and freelanced all sorts of stupidness that made no sense in the star wars universe because he never bothered to watch any of it and he was hired to destroy the concept of star wars for the old fans so the IP of Star Wars could be reengineered into a disney princess franchise with UberREY and her ovaries of justice. Lets not forget Vice Admiral Purple Hair Gender Studies Lecture who hated all her male subordinates because they were men and could not be trusted to even know what the plan was.
@@zacritner208 Watch the behind the scenes on any lucas or speilberg movie from before the 90s and you will see a very attractive crosseyed brunette running around with a tray of coffee wearing daisy dukes cut so short they requires two hair cuts to wear properly.
That lithe little succubus was Kathleen "the Honey trap" Kennedy. All she did was offer up stupid ideas on how to turn every movie into a movie with a female star, get coffee, and seduce old rich men while their wives were at the country club playing canasta with the ladies.
That is why she puts so little effort into the projects she helms, since she gathered the money for the movies stephen and george made and they literally laughed at every idea she came up with she feels the only part of making a movie that matters is how much you spend on it.
Which is why each movie she is in charge of costs twice as much and is twice as vacuous as the previous one. She thinks success comes from spending more money, because she doesn't understand what george and stephen did with that money was what made the movies great, not the ammount spent.
The director's cut of Alien 3 makes the movie look completely different from the weak original release.
Sony cancelling Popeye for The Emoji Movie
Pixar firing the original Brave director
What’s a popeye?
@@tvalokibatman6563 popeye the sailor man?
Cancelling "Batgirl" (and hopefully "Supergirl") is called course correction, not a mistake.
How is Heaven's Gate not on this list? The studio stopped making films after that and were sold, and the era of the all powerful director came to an end.
"Mr Speilberg is on line one and ridley scott is on line two, they called to make fun of you for several hours over your ridiculous statement, do you want them to call back after your coffee high-colonic irrigation and stretching?"
Actually, Batgirl was rumored to have been completed and ready for release but due to "poor reception", it was axed
It was about 90% done but the test audience found it boring to sit through so it was pulled
Even though the Behind The Scenes for adding Venom into Spider-Man 3 was horrible trying to force poor Sam Raimi to add Venom in and he still accepts no matter what people and say and fair play to you Sam Raimi I happen to like this Version of Venom so much probably even more than Tom Hardys maybe because of how structured the Character was with not trying to rush into stuff with the Character of just poping up as a Symbiote and taking people from there Life’s and then the transitions of him being added into the Story of where he becomes a Symbiote and then Hosts Peter and takes over his Life and talking to him and telling him what is right or wrong and then latching on to Eddie making him into the fearful Venom we know and love and also the Character Interactions to Venom had who ever he was Latched on to such as Off-screen talking to Peter and Teaming-Up with Sandman for the Finale and others to honestly this Character deserves a respect and well done Sam Raimi because the best is the best in my Eyes when you done this Character in you own Style and everything and also what they done for the Batgirl Movie this was the time to shine for Batgirl with her very own Solo Movie with Michael Keatons Batman coming back everything that was the rosy decision is well and with the Sequel Trilogy of Star Wars it wasn’t that bad only with Star Wars The force Awakens and Star Wars The Rise Of Skywalker I’ll make an exception with but with The Last Jedi no way hosai but the other Movies without a plan was well received with Star Wars The Force Awakens being such a Amazing and fantastic of a Sequel to Episode VI with its well stricter Story of Kew Characters coming in with Rey being a Scavenger and developing alongside with Resistance on when where she stands and where she belongs and with Fin being a Stormtrooper from a Resistance Fighter the List can go on with the Story and it’s Character such as Rey, Finn and Han Solo coming back doing his best and being the best like always does just being the same like he always is and Leia to being the same but the New Shoes to fill with being the Resistance Leader and others to and it’s back to Basics Settings to with travelling through the Galaxy to different Locations and Planets and then Star Wars The Last Jedi that definitely needed planning even though it did have a few Moments which I liked bout it it still doesn’t fill it’s bases with a Story with it Plotting and everything else which makes it a mess of a Movie in my Eyes and then there’s the Rise Of Skywalker people always hate on this one but honestly this one was Amazing and is hands down “One Of My Favourite Star Wars Movies” with its Plotting of trying to defeat the Dark Order with Palpatine forming a Big Empire from the dead and have that conform with the Dark Side and with him creating Snoke with Rey going back to Basiscs with trying to find out who she is and helping Kylo come to the Light and some other Characters like Finn, Poe and Saknah helping out through other Resistance Missions such as trying to find the weakest spots on the Starkiller Base and helping seek Rh through the truth of the Force and belong to get Kylo back and such other things and it’s Settings just being so Amazing with revisiting Old Locations like the Death Star ruins and also seeing New Planets such as Exegol, Passan, Kef Bir and others
So I’m sorry once there is three things on the List which I like but everyone hates I’m going to have to Dislike the Vid sorry don’t take personal I do it with every TH-camr or Social Media Platform Poster I see and I say three things because that’s the breaking point for me people have there own Opinions on something like that but they hate which is fine but still you get where I’m coming from
Holy sh*t, dude. Buy yourself some punctuation.
@@toshirodragon yeah sorry bout that but the Punctuation is classing some words which are important for subjects I’m talking bout but sorry again
@@Kyledix2003 What does that even mean, friend? What you wrote is a wall of unpunctuated (and mostly unrelated) words. If you were trying to express something you failed. Punctuation helps people understand where emphasis is intended. And sorry, I've read this 3 times and I still don't "get where you're coming from."
@@57Strudel you know what you don’t have to get where im coming from I’m just explain something in my own Grammar and Puntuation and I’m just highlighting Keywords to Pop Culture & Real Life thats all
Cancelling Batgirl was NOT a bad decision. Making that trash thing is what was the error.
So number 3 was personal for WM. Because you didn't say why canceling it was bad decision. You just said it was cancelled while in editing (they weren't actually even done shooting the movie) and wondered why.......
Wasn't Batgirl canceled because of woke backlash from She-Hulk?
That's how I learned about the cancelation.
Batgirl being canceled was a good thing. Ask the actress.
Not what she said.
Batgirl was a garbage movie and wb was right to cancel it
@@allencharles14 Exactly
It seems like the sequel trilogy started with a plan... and then just changed course because they wanted it to be different than whatever the fans were guessing. So we ended up with jarring things such as Rey was a nobody, but really she was a somebody, slow space chase, and rushed Palpatine :O
Dishonorable Mentions:
*Attaching People with a Bad Track Record to the Project - Various
-Its almost like certain people are the kiss of death when attached to anything. Be it certain actors or people behind the scenes (I.E. producers, directors, etc.) Saying "No" to these people is always an option.
*Studio Interference - Various
-Name your pick, Fantastic 4 (2015), Amazing Spider-Man 2, Suicide Squad, the list goes on and on.
*Not cancelling Uwe Boll (or his films)
-He's been labeled as the worst director of all time, and it all shows in his films. Can no one stop this man?!
*Overcorrecting - Various DC Films
-After Batman Returns got flak for being too dark, Warner Bros went far too much in the opposite direction for Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, causing the latter to be ripped apart. So they went back to dark for The Dark Knight Trilogy, only to go too dark AGAIN for Batman v Superman. It's like they don't know how to balance out it's own tone scale. One extreme can be just as bad as the other.
*Several Controversial Creative Decisions - The Last Airbender
-This film basically did everything wrong. From it's casting, writing, acting, and even directing. Shyamalan's fingerprints sullied this project and his career wouldn't recover until the release of "The Visit" and "Split." ...Only for his career to take another nosedive with "Old."
Hate to say this, but the show actually predicted bad adaptations like this during the Ember Island Play.
if attaching people with bad track records was held true 100% of the time Ironman probably wouldn't have been as great.
The crazy thing about Warner Bros is that they make better movies than Disney
So why they cause so much trouble when it comes to DC?
What? Disney's legacy matters more than WB as far as media say
Trying to play catch up they rushed there heroes into a big movies instead of introducing their characters they started with teaming them up. Also they can't seem to keep their stars under contract. Kinda hard to plan a franchise if your changing batman every other year.
Not true. You are biased towards Disney Leonardo
It's too early to see if canceling Batgirl was a good or bad choice. WB has already saved money with the cancelation, but if Zaslav's DC plans don't pan out, it won't much matter. Also, I see a lot of comments about how Batgirl potentially would have destroyed the DCEU. The DCEU already sucks. One more bad solo movie, which might not have even taken place in the same universe, wasn't going to break it.
Dosn't seem like Zaslov had a plan. Given the stock drop, talking up the Flash movie and Ezra Miller, losing Lagendary studios along with the monster verse and canceling dozens of acclaimed animated shows knowing it would cost those that worked on them their health care and a load of bad PR.
He has made all most nothing but wrong decisions.
@@compareandcontrast9833 Initially what he was saying sounded good: bring Superman back to the forefront, cancel some long-gestating projects that were just tying up characters (such as J.J. Abrams's stuff), etc. Now though, there's some alleged 10-year DC plan but no one outside knows if that's real or not. All in all, the merger seems to have put WB in a somewhat questionable position.
@@micah4029 It's not hard to say something that sounds good and actions will always speak louder.
@@compareandcontrast9833 Oh, definitely. I was just stating what's been said so far. "I'll believe it when I see it" needs to be fans' motto when it comes to Marvel and DC movies/shows going forward.
Hey Watchmojo, can you do Top 10 WORST Decisions Made By Movie Studios (not named Warner Bros.)? 😁
-Bad decision.
-Bat-Girl cancelled.
Pick one!
Y'all could've added Sly Cooper movie on the list.
It's a bad mistake to cancel a movie that tested negatively with every test group that saw it?
NO, NOT AT ALL
@@chheinrich8486 you’re lying
@@ahmadmohammed4212 if you had watched the channel midnight's edge, you would share my opinion
I don't understand
Disney buying Fox that resulted in Blue Sky being cancelled!
Pixar making another unwanted sequel known as Toy Story 4!
THE HIDDEN WORLD DESERVED TO WIN THAT AWARD!
Batgirl being cancelled is actually a W. Im sorry, but after the amount of media that try to push women and fail miserably since they boil down to "men bad, woman good", I had 0 hope it would be a good movie. "Men bad, Woman good" is not a story, its an agenda in the form of a feature length movie. Like seriously, directors that do these movies need to get out of their childish mindset of "Girls are better than boys", and actually use their heads to make media that is genuinely amazing instead of pushing some agenda 99% of audiences are tired of.
Paramount hiring Michael Bay as the director of 13 Hours: The Secret Soliders of Benghazi was a dumb decision in my book.
You can hate him All you want
But MB did Great for a hardcore Transformers universe and his way is better than children's movies called Bumblebee solo soft reboot
WB giving Zack the keys, and letting the DCEU continue for nearly a decade. Big mistake. HUGE
Let's be fair, simply the inclusion of Vemon or a "third villain" was not the reason the movie sucks. No Way Home has more villains and is awesome. It is the casting, story and execution that kills the movie. Sorry Gopher Face, you were fine in That 70's show, but you are no Eddie Brock.
Im so sorry but cancelling Batgirl was absolutely the right call. That movie would have been released and trashed on only furthering the negative stigma of the DCEU. Not only that, but it would have commited to a weird mashup universe that Hamada thought would work, thankfully that plan is getting abandoned. I feel for the cast and crew tho, I wouldn't mind a non-canon release one day but if the studio is getting a tax write off then that will never happen unfortunately.
I would argue that canceling Batgirl was good because rumors were that it was going to be woke which wokeness ruins media that's just a fact of life. Also another huge mistake was George Lucas allowing Disney to even buy his properties
Also here's some honorable mentions
Creating Cole Young ( Mortal Kombat 2021)
Constantly making twist villains ( Disney 2010s)
Putting Joel Schumacher in charge of Batman Forever and Batman and Robin.
Mojo is wrong canceling Batgirl was a great decision, the studio will recoup their money as a tax write off and help salvage the DC brand so it will be profitable in the future.
I really do NOT think SPUMC's Morbius film Re-release is worst decision because some Marvel superfans loved & liked the film. More importantly, this film reaches the $100M mark at the Box Office.
Surprised "Heaven's Gate" (1980/81) was no where here! The first (and only?) flop to bring down its studio with it...
Disney is now gonna ruin INDIANA JONES
The same way they ruined STAR WARS
How can Disney makes Pixar, marvel good movie but not Star Wars
Micky Mouse: Do I own South Park?
Disney employee: Not yet...
Disney did not ruin Star Wars. A bunch of spoiled and toxic fans ruined it. They were very demanding in what they wanted and placed too many expectations
@@daniellewis3850 LIES! ALL OF IT!
@@zacritner208 Actually, sequel trilogy fan-brats like yourself are part of the reason why Star Wars is RUINED.
I m a huge sf and fantasy fan and honestly i don t know why Alien 3 gets such a bad rep... its a great movie and a nice ending to the trilogy! everything after the 3 alien movie is a complete abomination :D predators vs aliens movie included! excsept predators! i find that one ok :D
Predators and ALIENS (Xenos) franchises
were destined to each other
Perfect march
Ruthless Hunter and Prey
Even ALIEN 4 is okay with me
There are many things worse than this on the list
Surprised Justice League 2017 didn't make the list.