{"id":51210,"date":"2026-11-13T01:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/skydance-owning-both-warner-bros-and-paramount-could-open-the-door-to-a-future-of-crossover-slop\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T01:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:35:07","slug":"skydance-owning-both-warner-bros-and-paramount-could-open-the-door-to-a-future-of-crossover-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/skydance-owning-both-warner-bros-and-paramount-could-open-the-door-to-a-future-of-crossover-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydance Owning Both Warner Bros. and Paramount Could Open the Door to a Future of Crossover Slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A live-action team-up movie featuring Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles no longer sounds like a crazy idea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Updated<\/p>\n<p>: Nov 12, 2026 10:51pm UTC<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">What the future holds for DC Studios in <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/james-gunn-and-peter-safran-are-stepping-down-from-dc-studios-in-shock-development-that-sparks-all-sorts-of-questions-about-the-dcu\">a post-James Gunn and Peter Safran world<\/a> is anyone\u2019s guess at the moment. Perhaps we\u2019ll know more once incoming <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/what-new-dc-studios-boss-jeremy-latchams-past-comments-and-films-suggest-about-the-future-of-the-dcu\">DC Studios President and Chief Creative Officer Jeremy Latcham<\/a> assumes command December 1, but I assume there may not be any new film or TV slates officially announced until after the New Year. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">The biggest question, obviously, is whether the new Skydance-operated regime will <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/james-gunn-and-peter-safran-may-be-out-but-their-dcu-needs-to-continue\">reboot Gunn\u2019s DCU<\/a>, with some <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dcs-new-leader-will-reportedly-prioritize-more-well-known-characters-like-batman-and-wonder-woman-reboot-has-yet-to-be-decided\">reports claiming that might be the case<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/skydance-plans-to-cut-6-billion-in-costs-following-warner-bros-deal-86b3b6bf\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skydance is $87 billion in debt<\/a> and looking to cut costs and maximize profits across the board. <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/batman-lord-of-the-rings-and-harry-potter-feature-in-first-trailer-for-skydance-the-newly-named-parent-company-for-a-merged-warner-bros-and-paramount\">Post-merger<\/a>, Skydance now has all of the Paramount intellectual property at their disposal to exploit as well as the entire Warner Bros. library. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">So how might such a debt-riddled corporation start producing films that seem like safer commercial bets than, say, a Clayface movie (which was a modest success for DC Studios)?<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/skydance-owning-both-warner-bros-and-paramount-could-open-the-door-to-a-future-of-crossover-slop\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A live-action team-up movie featuring Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles no longer sounds like a crazy idea. Updated : Nov 12, 2026 10:51pm UTC What the future holds for DC Studios in a post-James Gunn and Peter Safran world is anyone\u2019s guess at the moment. Perhaps we\u2019ll know more once incoming DC Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-51210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}