Warner Bros cancels ‘Batgirl’ Film after having $90 Million Lose

Warner Bros Discovery announced Tuesday that it is cancelling all plans to release the nearly finished film Batgirl, starring actress Leslie Grace, shocking Hollywood observers for the amount of money wasted. The film’s budget had been set at $75 million, but it had ballooning to $90 million due to COVID-relation delays. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed it, and their credits include the 2020 Will Smith and Martin Lawrence film Bad Boys for Life, as well as the recent Disney+ series Ms. Marvel.

Warner Bros. cancels ‘Batgirl’ film after $90 million in losses

 A Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement obtained by multiple media outlets:

“The decision to hold off on releasing Batgirl reflects our leadership’s strategic shift in relation to the DC universe and HBO Max. Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actress, and this decision has nothing to do with her performance.” Warner Bros. has not responded to NPR’s requests for comment.

Variety reported on Tuesday that the film had been planning under Ann Sarnoff, CEO of Warner Bros., and Jason Kilar, CEO of WarnerMedia was set to be releasing initially on the HBO Max streaming platform. David Zaslav, the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery Company’s CEO, has since reversed the company’s streaming-first corporate plans. According to Variety, the fate of Batgirl appears to be intertwining with those strategy wars.

When the Batgirl story first was first breaking, it was through the New York Post, and an anonymous source told the paper that poor audience testing was to blame. “They believe an unspeakable Batgirl will be irredeemable,” a source told the Post.

 At the same time that Batgirl was axing, the studio announcing that Scoob! : Holiday Haunt had been cancelling

The studio also revealed that Scoob! : Holiday Haunt had been cancelling at the same time that Batgirl got the axe. The studio also revealed that Scoob! : Holiday Haunt had been cancelling at the same time that Batgirl got the axe. It was a follow-up to the 2020 movie Scoob! Whose review by Variety stated: “These are trying times, and parents may be grateful to have a virtual babysitter to distract their kids for 90 minutes, in which case, Scoob! Is surely more effective than sitting them in front of the fish tank.”

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