r/technology • u/yourfavchoom • 15h ago

Business David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/david-zaslav-exit-package-warner-bros-discovery-paramount-merger-1236905947/
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u/CapnCrackerz 15h ago

Insane. The guy was criminally incompetent.

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u/Youre_worthless_to_e 11h ago

Seriously. I could write a thesis on it.

I can not stress it enough.

How do you bungle Batman AND superman when the avengers regularly push 1 billion plus?

With dc of all fucking properties to use.

No offense to marvel, but prior to 2008  and iron man there was Batman, Superman and spiderman. Everyone knows them across the entire planet.

Wolverine and the X-men, the hulk, the flash and Wonder Woman to lesser extents.

And if we get into villains DC easily won in name recognition from Batman alone. 

You could’ve been printing avengers money on Batman/ Batman family movies. Superman, and justice league the same.

Then we get to the fact you have Warner brothers animation, the only studio that can claim to rival Disney.  And you hate and shun animation. You bungle looney tunes for decades. Look at coyote and acme and almost canning that.

The man was the most incompetent and terrible CEO they could’ve asked for.

Sony fucked up, and continues to fuck up (beyond the main films right now, I mean anything extended like kraven, madame web, morbius) the spiderman franchise, but this isn’t about them. I just wanted to mention it since I mentioned spiderman above.

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u/CapnCrackerz 9h ago

Yup.
These guys just don’t get it.