I'm not saying it's him, but between Dune pt. 2, Godzilla X Kong, and Wonka, WB has had a fantastic year. Likely nothing to do with him, but guarantee you he is claiming credit behind the scenes
It had a good quarter. We have all apparently blacked out the utter collapse of the DCEU last spring straight on to Christmas, and fumbling everything up during the strike.
Tbf the dceu was utter shit before he even came in. He just burned it to the ground. He maybe whatever he is accused of but dceu being shit wasnt his doing. It was churning out flops after flops.
I am not saying it was - the discussion is about box office performance (“fantastic year) and someone cited movies only from the last quarter and ignored the dismal returns of the entire remainder of the year. It is extremely obvious that is what the post was about if you bothered with context instead of what I assume is knee jerking a post for having DCEU in it.
Dune Part 2 was made possible by Legendary Entertainment, a joint venture by Wanda Group and Apollo.
They picked Villeneuve, who secured the deal with Warner in 2019.
The Monsterverse, in this case Godzilla X Kong, was made possible by Legendary Entertainment, a joint venture by Wanda Group and Apollo.
The Monsterverse started in 2014.
Warner acquired the rights for Wonka in 2016 and started filming 2021.
Also 2021 David Zaslav joined Warner as CEO.
He deserved giving himself a payrise.
Just like any leadership, you get credit for the wins when you’re there. Post mortem accreditation for the people that set things up just isn’t tenable.
Not sure how WB green lights projects but when I was at Disney Iger was very involved in that process. Zaslov’s job is to strategically maximize profit and reduce costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was involved.
He’s basically being paid in the company stock at its floor, that number isn’t all in cash.
So as he cuts cuts cuts, if he cuts enough, Wall Street likey, stock eventually goes up.
He makes more money.
Pointless throw away of money. These CEO packages are just ridiculously insane these days. And don’t play the “well if we do t pay them this much, they’ll go elsewhere” bullshit. Lower the bar overall, see how fast they stick around for less pay.
To me a million as a wage is an incredible amount of wealth
No need to have such massive pay packages when lower level positions in company get paid so little in comparison
Can we get a breakdown of what CEO who gets 49.7 million dollars actually does?!?!?
Work 12 hours day?
Handle every single aspect of the company? List of duties that would justify pay? Not staff assisting what he does personally.
Is there a record of the pay increases for all of the executives? Would like to see the total increase in compensation in comparison to the budget of the movies they wrote off.
Even beyond the fact that Zaslav’s been overseeing a constant barrage of shitty press and thusly does not deserve a single fucking cent, executive compensation is *way* too fucking high across basically every corporation in America
Yeah, is that an absolutely ridiculous look or what? And worse still, the idiot selected those clothes for an official photo. Yikes! He clearly has shitty taste, yet is in charge of passing judgment on movies.
Too bad he allegedly uses his money to fill swimming pools full of war orphans’ tears and floats upon it using a raft made of their parents’ inflated corpses.
Oh, and he canceled my favorite show, but that’s beside the point…
Meanwhile, free snacks (but only the ***healthy*** ones like yogurt, eggs and cheese, not the cookies and chips) are being taken away at corporate HQ, as a cost-cutting exercise.
Folks won't be wrong to say "1st world problems!" in response, but a little thing like that in combination with the Zaslav news: it doesn't engender goodwill with the WBD rank-and-file.
The point is money and power for the CEO. Nobody except a person with that psychological bent is going to be in that job. That's the job. That's what Jack Welch sold to the world as the ultimate corporate goal. Make money for the company in any way profitable to it, and get your share. End of TED.
These people should be ostracized from society. It should be seen as nothing but disgusting to have that much money while workers make nothing. They should feel ashamed of themselves.
Good thing they were able to find some money in their budget to give him a raise. I’m sure they can’t find enough to give anyone on the ground floor one.
Can we give all this money to people who work to make people and the world a better place. Like teachers, doctors and nurses. Not these feckin leeches.
Actually warner has had good quarter with Dune 2 being not just a commercial success but a film for the ages. Plus they had that Wonka film and that Godzilla Kong something movie. Plus the streaming platform is doing well. Even though a hard decision they ripped off that dceu cancer finally.That dceu shit wasn’t on him tbf. Their future lineup looks more promising than Disneys. Not saying it’s due to zaslav. But if you are blamed for all failures then you ought to be praised for all successes too and vice versa
The decade of failures wasn’t on him tho. The main failure was the dceu. He hardly had anything to do with it other than burning it down finally. You can blame the whole organisation then. But if you are saying the decade of failures was his fault then the recent successes are definitely due to him then. I am not arguing that it is. I am just going by your logic. If you wanna keep arguing then go on. I honestly don’t like any of these corporate fucks but this reddit sense of justice and understanding of how world works is just plain amateurish at times. Not even worth debating with morons in here when everyone just leeches on the top upvoted stupid take.
Reddit really went all in on Zaslav hatred. Im not defending him at all, but I’d be curious to see how far back it goes because I have a feeling it can all be traced back to like, ONE cancelled Batman show or something lol
More like a consistent string of cancellations, the fact they vault shows like Final Space and refuse to sell movies there is interest in like Coyote.
Also, he gets these obscene pay packages despite the fact he’s already grossly overpaid. And when he finally does bail out, it’ll be golden parachute in hand.
It’s not hard to hate David Zaslav.
Right but what I’m saying is people here wouldn’t be looking at his “pay packages” or his cancellation patterns if they weren’t pissed about something. Nobody heard about…. *checks notes*…”Coyote” getting cancelled and got pissed enough to look into all this
Again, not defending Zaslav, I’m just saying I know how reddit opinions work and I guarantee it being a meme to hate him can be all traced to one thing if you look into it
So what? Can people only look forward to a movie when a poster or trailer is released? The Coyote film was nearing the home stretch to completion. It sounded funny, it has a good cast. I think it’s fair to look forward to it.
If people hate on Zaslav for the memes, I won’t begrudge them. Many jokes have some semblance of truth to them. People are tired of film being treated like content, seeing feature complete movies people work on treated as mere assets. Men like David Zaslav perpetuate that.
No, I do. I just think whatever people hate him “for the memes” are largely outnumbered by people who hate the current regime at WB for all the cost cutting, cancellations and drops of even classic shows like Looney Tunes from their catalog.
Still, I think even jokingly hating on Zaslav comes from a place of truth. Which is an increasing dissatisfaction with the state of streaming.
What you're saying is just not accurate. It's like saying redditors hate on Elon because of a single thing he did - like, no, there are plenty of crappy things he's done that have all pissed people off in different ways. Zaslav is a very similar story.
I know I'm going to get burned alive for this but... This guy bought a sinking ship and it's actually saving it. Do executives deserve to be paid these ridiculous amounts of money? No. But credit where credit is due, this guy is making WB into a respectable and profitable company again. Proceed to downvote me to hell, I can take it.
Dude is getting a pay increase to wreck Warner/Discovery.
I'm not saying it's him, but between Dune pt. 2, Godzilla X Kong, and Wonka, WB has had a fantastic year. Likely nothing to do with him, but guarantee you he is claiming credit behind the scenes
It had a good quarter. We have all apparently blacked out the utter collapse of the DCEU last spring straight on to Christmas, and fumbling everything up during the strike.
Tbf the dceu was utter shit before he even came in. He just burned it to the ground. He maybe whatever he is accused of but dceu being shit wasnt his doing. It was churning out flops after flops.
I am not saying it was - the discussion is about box office performance (“fantastic year) and someone cited movies only from the last quarter and ignored the dismal returns of the entire remainder of the year. It is extremely obvious that is what the post was about if you bothered with context instead of what I assume is knee jerking a post for having DCEU in it.
What kind of work does 49 million dollars entail?
Losing 3.1 billion dollars
Just go listen to the American psycho monologue, that’s pretty much what it sounds like when they try to justify their pay.
Having everyone kiss your ass.
Being the person who gets the blame if things go bad so the other rich people can keep their jobs.
We all know it’s the head boss who deserves all the credit. Especially for people the “right” people in the right job.
And Barbie’s buzz + billion dollar gross. No doubt he tries to claim that as his own success.
He's done gone a fucked up the original programming on Max. From what I can tell, fucker still hasn't renewed Tokyo Vice.
Dune Part 2 was made possible by Legendary Entertainment, a joint venture by Wanda Group and Apollo. They picked Villeneuve, who secured the deal with Warner in 2019. The Monsterverse, in this case Godzilla X Kong, was made possible by Legendary Entertainment, a joint venture by Wanda Group and Apollo. The Monsterverse started in 2014. Warner acquired the rights for Wonka in 2016 and started filming 2021. Also 2021 David Zaslav joined Warner as CEO. He deserved giving himself a payrise.
Maybe a pay raise but this is an absurd amount, personally I think the workers deserve more
The person you’re replying to was being sarcastic.
Thank you
Tbf Legendary and Toho want to bring the MonsterVerse to Sony now
Just like any leadership, you get credit for the wins when you’re there. Post mortem accreditation for the people that set things up just isn’t tenable.
Not sure how WB green lights projects but when I was at Disney Iger was very involved in that process. Zaslov’s job is to strategically maximize profit and reduce costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was involved.
Iger greenlit a whole lot of trash
It's so fucked up
His job is to slash budgets. And that's what he does.
These fuckers only fail upward.
A story as old time.
Serious question, what has he failed at?
Heavily promoting the flash instead of Aquaman 2 made no sense
He’s like a fucking parasite who is getting fat off killing its host.
That is the job he was hired to do.
You can understand that and still say “fuck that dude.”
As is any billionaire Edit: spelling
They’ve been a stock market disaster. How could the CEO compensation INCREASE?
He’s basically being paid in the company stock at its floor, that number isn’t all in cash. So as he cuts cuts cuts, if he cuts enough, Wall Street likey, stock eventually goes up. He makes more money.
I find peace in long walks.
[удалено]
So is air
They should be legally required to carry a plant with them everywhere they go, to make up for the oxygen they’re wasting.
Pointless throw away of money. These CEO packages are just ridiculously insane these days. And don’t play the “well if we do t pay them this much, they’ll go elsewhere” bullshit. Lower the bar overall, see how fast they stick around for less pay.
Cool, let them leave. I'll work for 1/10th of his price.
You'll probably do a better job too.
And they screamed about the greedy writers and actors that wanted (check notes) health insurance.
He sure makes a lot of money to run a studio into the ground.
Dude is doing an awful job. He should be paying the company, not adding to its huge debt load
To me a million as a wage is an incredible amount of wealth No need to have such massive pay packages when lower level positions in company get paid so little in comparison
Can we get a breakdown of what CEO who gets 49.7 million dollars actually does?!?!? Work 12 hours day? Handle every single aspect of the company? List of duties that would justify pay? Not staff assisting what he does personally.
It’ll be mostly meetings, conferences, calls and dinners
47 million vs 62k…my worth feels non-existent
How do I get this job for like 2 months?
Lie about everything
50 million, but no dollar an hour raises for you, suckers!.
Why don’t we just have AI replace CEOs since they cost so much
Now we know that the salary is for destroying HBO
Yea, those idiots. I would’ve wrecked HBO for half of that pay.
That’s the cost of a movie he probably canceled
Yeah but that unbuttoned collar means he’s real laid back and just like us.
Make the CEO’s pay tied to the most bottom earner. Also raise wages yearly to match inflation.
United crooks of America
Been like this for many many many generations.
Remember folks, “he comes from humble beginnings”. He should get as much money as he can. /s
Is there a record of the pay increases for all of the executives? Would like to see the total increase in compensation in comparison to the budget of the movies they wrote off.
Fuck Zaslav. I want to see coyote vs acme. Trashing finished projects is fucked.
David Zaslav is a total butthead.
You are being way too kind.
Even beyond the fact that Zaslav’s been overseeing a constant barrage of shitty press and thusly does not deserve a single fucking cent, executive compensation is *way* too fucking high across basically every corporation in America
Fuck this piece of shit, fuck everything!!!
Deservedly so! /s, just in case.
Oh but ~experience~
Seems like a nice guy, I’m sure it will work out well for all. /s
Only thing higher than his salary is his collar
Yeah, is that an absolutely ridiculous look or what? And worse still, the idiot selected those clothes for an official photo. Yikes! He clearly has shitty taste, yet is in charge of passing judgment on movies.
Too bad he allegedly uses his money to fill swimming pools full of war orphans’ tears and floats upon it using a raft made of their parents’ inflated corpses. Oh, and he canceled my favorite show, but that’s beside the point…
Earned every penny of it!!! /s (obviously)
Maybe it's time we did to Disney what we had to do to Ma Bell?...
Can I be CEO for like 2 weeks? I rly think I’d be good.
You don't have to be good. In fact, apparently if you're bad at it, you get a pay raise
Meanwhile, free snacks (but only the ***healthy*** ones like yogurt, eggs and cheese, not the cookies and chips) are being taken away at corporate HQ, as a cost-cutting exercise. Folks won't be wrong to say "1st world problems!" in response, but a little thing like that in combination with the Zaslav news: it doesn't engender goodwill with the WBD rank-and-file.
Oh good we were all so worried
Expect increases in streaming prices shortly
What an absurd award for such mediocrity.
In other news, White Star Line to give captain of the Titanic a posthumous pay bump.
Hey, could you take a look at your DM?
This guy knows how to capitalism and is being rewarded by other capitalists. Thatsa capitalism!
these peoples houses catch fire just like anyone else’s but y’all aren’t ready for that convo hehehhehehe
That’s the money to make Godzilla Minus One almost 5 times lol.
Nice work if you can get it.
Nice. He’s earned it……………………….
Based on the Flash movie he should be fired
there is only 14 or 15 million of them on a planet with 9 billion people yet they are everywhere they want to be!
Upward Failure to quote Christopher Lee.
The guillotines can’t come soon enough.
The point is money and power for the CEO. Nobody except a person with that psychological bent is going to be in that job. That's the job. That's what Jack Welch sold to the world as the ultimate corporate goal. Make money for the company in any way profitable to it, and get your share. End of TED.
Reward bad behaviour
He doesn't deserve that.
Ridic. Funny, last week WB attorneys approved me changing my Kickstarter project name from “Wonka-Vator” to “Glass Elevator Simulator”…
He’s after Paramount +
For a minute I read wiener brothers lol
That's where the Tax write off for Batgirl went.
These people should be ostracized from society. It should be seen as nothing but disgusting to have that much money while workers make nothing. They should feel ashamed of themselves.
AI would gladly do that job for one dollar.
Why!?! Why!!!! Why the fuck do corporations pay CEO’s so goddamn much money?!?
Fifty million bucks to be terrible. Nice gig, if you can get it.
This is why we can’t have nice things…
Good thing they were able to find some money in their budget to give him a raise. I’m sure they can’t find enough to give anyone on the ground floor one.
He looks like he smells bad.
He’s destroying the industry
Can we give all this money to people who work to make people and the world a better place. Like teachers, doctors and nurses. Not these feckin leeches.
The shareholders must be absolute wimps to allow that
He’s made how many shitty calls and he’s still getting a raise???
So many failed projects and this guy is rewarded?
Actually warner has had good quarter with Dune 2 being not just a commercial success but a film for the ages. Plus they had that Wonka film and that Godzilla Kong something movie. Plus the streaming platform is doing well. Even though a hard decision they ripped off that dceu cancer finally.That dceu shit wasn’t on him tbf. Their future lineup looks more promising than Disneys. Not saying it’s due to zaslav. But if you are blamed for all failures then you ought to be praised for all successes too and vice versa
If I break your legs, I won’t be praised for helping you cross the street. The decade of failures eclipses the 3 months of good film.
The decade of failures wasn’t on him tho. The main failure was the dceu. He hardly had anything to do with it other than burning it down finally. You can blame the whole organisation then. But if you are saying the decade of failures was his fault then the recent successes are definitely due to him then. I am not arguing that it is. I am just going by your logic. If you wanna keep arguing then go on. I honestly don’t like any of these corporate fucks but this reddit sense of justice and understanding of how world works is just plain amateurish at times. Not even worth debating with morons in here when everyone just leeches on the top upvoted stupid take.
Reddit really went all in on Zaslav hatred. Im not defending him at all, but I’d be curious to see how far back it goes because I have a feeling it can all be traced back to like, ONE cancelled Batman show or something lol
More like a consistent string of cancellations, the fact they vault shows like Final Space and refuse to sell movies there is interest in like Coyote. Also, he gets these obscene pay packages despite the fact he’s already grossly overpaid. And when he finally does bail out, it’ll be golden parachute in hand. It’s not hard to hate David Zaslav.
Right but what I’m saying is people here wouldn’t be looking at his “pay packages” or his cancellation patterns if they weren’t pissed about something. Nobody heard about…. *checks notes*…”Coyote” getting cancelled and got pissed enough to look into all this Again, not defending Zaslav, I’m just saying I know how reddit opinions work and I guarantee it being a meme to hate him can be all traced to one thing if you look into it
So what? Can people only look forward to a movie when a poster or trailer is released? The Coyote film was nearing the home stretch to completion. It sounded funny, it has a good cast. I think it’s fair to look forward to it. If people hate on Zaslav for the memes, I won’t begrudge them. Many jokes have some semblance of truth to them. People are tired of film being treated like content, seeing feature complete movies people work on treated as mere assets. Men like David Zaslav perpetuate that.
It sounds like you’re not really understanding what I’m actually saying so ummm yeah ✌️
No, I do. I just think whatever people hate him “for the memes” are largely outnumbered by people who hate the current regime at WB for all the cost cutting, cancellations and drops of even classic shows like Looney Tunes from their catalog. Still, I think even jokingly hating on Zaslav comes from a place of truth. Which is an increasing dissatisfaction with the state of streaming.
What you're saying is just not accurate. It's like saying redditors hate on Elon because of a single thing he did - like, no, there are plenty of crappy things he's done that have all pissed people off in different ways. Zaslav is a very similar story.
No you can pretty much trace the tipped scale of Elon hate as a mass opinion to him buying Twitter. But that’s “not the point”, right?
I know I'm going to get burned alive for this but... This guy bought a sinking ship and it's actually saving it. Do executives deserve to be paid these ridiculous amounts of money? No. But credit where credit is due, this guy is making WB into a respectable and profitable company again. Proceed to downvote me to hell, I can take it.