When Apple TV+ was first announced in 2017, many looked at it as yet another cash grab by a big tech company among the wave of similar services by Facebook and Amazon.
However, a few years later, the streaming landscape is very different.
Disney+ is dealing with MCU and Star Wars fatigue, with both properties doing poorly on streaming and at the box office.
HBO Max — with its vast Turner Classic library and a slew of beloved Warner Bros.
franchises like Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and DC movies — was poised to be a frontrunner in the streaming wars.
Of course, we all know that didn’t happen, as the Warner Bros.
acquisition by AT&T, followed by the Discovery merger, led to a bloodbath.
This saw already-made films like Batgirl and Scoob 2 get pulled, despite being completed, for tax write-offs, and their DC empire simultaneously imploded with many behind-the-scenes changes.
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