The purge at Netflix Animation continues this time the series Pearl by Amanda Rynda was part of the purge.
>What's Happening?
Netflix has entered a new administration and the new excs don't see profitable their in-house animation studio, so they are cancelling projects mid-production and they will return to being a licensing home with animation
>What Projects are Axed?
So Far >Toil And Trouble by Lauren Faust >Untitled Alex Hirsch Adult Animated Comedy >Bone Adaptation >Boons And Curses >Raise The Bar! >Dino Daycare
Anyone forgetting Danny Antonucci’s upcoming Lupo the Butcher series for them? Haven’t heard anything since it’s been announced and it’s been two years. Not even a leak.
What's going to happen with Green eggs and Ham considering it's supposed to be stupidly expensive to make?
Benjamin Morgan
Netflix is the one buying it and they'll presumably make it netflix exclusive, kind of like what went down with green eggs and hm which also came from WB.
Oh that's super dead, WB has zero reason to want to give their shit to Netflix anymore, espeically if it's animated
Thomas Allen
Most likely will continue in something like HBO Max. Pretty sure that even Warner doesn't want to deal with Netflix's shit.
Julian White
Those are not made in-house out of their pockets.
Lucas Hughes
It already ended, it kind of concluded itself and resolved all plot points unless they came up with another adventure out of thin air
Eli Young
Not saying they are. That's NOT what I'm implying. I'm only asking if the company will pull the plug on these potential shows.
Xavier Cox
this
Liam Phillips
Does this mean inside job got axed? Bummer dude.
Michael Gutierrez
Most of the animation cutbacks are not in the Adult department, but in the Kids/Family division. But I'm honestly not too optimistic about the future for IJ.
Benjamin Harris
It's got nothing to do with whether the animation projects were profitable - they can't measure direct gains from individual projects anyways.
It's a change in strategy. Making new content acts as a draw to the service, keeping people subscribed and attracting new subscribers in exchange for a large chunk of investment money. It's a strategy focused on long term prospects and winning control of the market.
Netflix has given up on controlling the market and long term survival.
They're cutting costs anywhere they can to beef up profits in the very short term and then after lots of bonuses the execs will sell the company to vulture capital
Chase Edwards
What a long-winded way of saying the cartoons weren't profitable.
Matthew Kelly
You may be retarded
Andrew Brooks
Man what a way to end this show. Way to blue ball everybody
Arcane is funded by Tencent user, Netflix has nothing to do with its production, they just license it for streaming in the west/Japan.
Cooper Young
>vulture capital It's already publicly traded, and they are many magnitudes larger than Twitter. No one is scooping them up. If Netflix wants to appear better to investors, they wouldn't cut things that help their bottom line. The cartoons did not help their bottom line.
Josiah Nelson
That's good. I dunno in my head, it felt like Netflix was done with animation all together.
Nicholas Reed
Allegedly the people in Netflix animation were cooking the books, massively overstating the value provided.
Gavin Ortiz
I heard they were just spending more money then they assumed they would make.
Jaxon White
IIRC it's being made by or in partnership with Gaumont, so it's a separate discussion from what's happening to in house projects.
Cooper Diaz
>it felt like Netflix was done with animation all together. They aren't. That's what some people want you to believe, because they want to be viewed as being unjustly victimized by Netflix. Look at the list of shows cancelled so far, versus the shows still going forward. All of them, save Bone, were female oriented shows, vanity projects, or pushed on their progressive merits. The remaining shows are typically action-oriented, with video game or toy tie-ins. I know discussions get heated when taken in this direction, and it's not something I take glee in. But these decisions are definitely being driven by content along with finances. They aren't shutting down animation. They've simply lost faith in a particular segment of animation.
Nicholas Wilson
that doesn't make sense, how would they make a megaman movie without it looking ridiculous or out of tune?
Henry Hernandez
When has that ever stopped them before?
Liam Morris
It is very unlikely. Those are big name properties with a high probability of being successful.
Gavin Green
>toil and trouble >boon and curses >bone
They were going for an odd magical fantasy occult slant there.
Jaxon James
>NOOOOOOOOOOO Y WONT THEY PANDER TO MANCHILD WHO WATCH CHILDREN TV SHOWS
Brayden Sullivan
So now that they have killed off the animation department, do you think they'll kill their in house live action trash as well? They seems fine with buying foreign crap to fill the catalogue anyway.
Brayden Brooks
Some projects are not being made by Netflix but rather Netflix is just hosting the shows on their service. The things getting cancelled are the things Netflix actually has the ability to cancel.
Liam Lee
Japan likes LOL?
David Allen
Yeah, that Megaman one has been announced since forever and nothing ever gets announced.
Xavier Cruz
Cuz crap keeps changing. It was originally being made at Fox, but when Disney bought them the rights jumped to Netflix.
