It confirms what was already known: HBO Max and Discovery+ will be combined into a single service. The transition will start next year in the United States, and the following year it will spread to Europe and the rest of the markets, so until then nothing will change and both will continue to work as before.

The waters are turbulent at Discovery, the new owner of WarnerMedia and all its tentacles, including Warner Bros, TNT, Cartoon Network, DC Comics, CNN and HBO Max, one of today’s great video-on-demand platforms. with the new owners already operating as such, restructuring was initiated.

This means significant cost reductions to begin with, even at the cost of losing many millions already invested along the way. A much-talked-about example these days is the cancellation of the new Batgirl movie, already in pre-production, where $70-100 million was polished off, and which won’t even see the light of day on HBO Max.

Reason? Generally speaking, and for the more hot rags we’ve tried to bring up, the brief official statements that have been made point to the trash content that, unlike what usually comes from HBO, seems to remain in one of the company’s greatest assets. because he’s a DC superhero. In this sense, from now on the intention is to do only big blockbusters good quality and not stuffed.

How much the new course will affect what Warner Bros pulls out of DC is unknown, but the production is being liked Flash, Black Adam or a sequel Tease there is no threat to cinematography at the moment. Not even continuity suicide squad or similar series Peacemaker and more and there are even rumors of Henry Cavill returning as Superman, but nothing is confirmed.

It was confirmed that the “experiments” were over and DC will emulate Marvel and put together a 10-year plan getting the most out of superhero franchises, but without compromising the quality of the final product. As they say, it’s not about doing more, it’s about doing it better.

In each case, Discovery isn’t just cutting content from Warner Bros. The cancellations have been happening on a larger and smaller scale since the new directive took control this spring, and there’s no better example of this than the ruthless restrictions on CNN+. It was also noted with HBO’s European production, all but a few titles were canceled, including the new season of the Spanish one 30 coins.

But the changes that have taken place, such as the removal of content from HBO Max, are much more … and those are to be expected, and the new bosses of the conglomerate seem to have no qualms about charging everything that does not work. The litmus test will be released at the end of this month when the prequel k Game of Thrones, the house of the dragon.

If we come back with the news, although everything commented on results from the new situation, many data remain to be known. Without going further, what will be the new house that combines the offer of HBO Max and Discovery +, since it is understood that it will not be any of the existing ones. Something that has been advanced is that Ad-free plans to expand to Europein the style of what Netflix suggested.

For HBO Max subscribers, meanwhile, everything will remain more or less the same. If anything, the number of launches will decrease a bit, but not by much, because one of Discovery’s priorities is not to lose users.