Warner Bros Discovery has done something good for change. Over the past month, I’ve uploaded 30 different movies of different quality to YouTube. You can watch it for free now. There is no catch.
This is a strange move from a company that has been actively looking anti-art since CEO David Zaslav linked Warnermedia to one company in 2021. This is the company that shelved the completed Batgirl movie and Coyote vs Acme. There is a small hope that if Warner Bros. banks tax savings from not releasing those photos, they might one day see them dumped on YouTube.
This is the complete playlist. It’s a glove bag.
The sudden appearance of a film dump was first noticed by Ernie Smith at Teddium.
Warner Bros Discovery manages multiple YouTube channels and has uploaded these films over the past few weeks. After seeing Marlon Brando’s Mutiny in all of his glory, you can see the views of Jeremy Irons Chew in the terrible Dungeons & Dragons of the 2000s. I have not been waiting for Gaffman since I was a teenager. It’s here. I’ve never seen a true story about David Byrne, but I’ve always wanted it. Now there is no entry barrier.
The list is full of cinematic masterpieces, obscure cult films and absolute trash. It’s an unreleased list of the film, and a strange trash can ground Warner Bros. should not think much about. William Friedkin ran a divine film in the 1970s. He came out with French connections, exorcists and ended up with a magician.
As his career wanders in the 1980s, he came out with a strange film starring Chevrolet Chase, Gregory Hines and Sigourney Weaver about an arms dealer called Deal of the Century. That should be terrible. Now I can see how I intended it. During lunch, on YouTube in a week-long 20-minute segment.
Most of these films aren’t Max, the company’s best streaming service. Some of them can be purchased or rented on YouTube or Amazon. Some of them are ambiguous jewels, some are perfect, and I have never heard of it.
It’s a strange list and this feels like an experiment of some sort. Warner Brothers is a 100 -year -old movie studio with a backcatalog filled with countless movies. The studio for a long time tried to use the back catalog without breaking the bank. In 2009, they published what is known as the Warner Archives Collection. For several years, the archive will print DVDs and Blu-rays on demand when ordered by consumers. Rather than pushing them in a warehouse rather than massive pressing obscure or low-demand films, they’ll make it for you if you want it.
Five years later, the archives went into streaming. It goes through several iterations over the years and for a while, letting people download video files directly from the archive. But when Zaslav took over, it was all closed. I moved to Max, although not all, in the catalog.
Now it looks like it’s on YouTube. It’s where abandoned media can live without paying hosting fees. It also makes money from the view, with some of these films already being viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Nice Guy of Jackie Chan’s 1997 carriage has 15 million views.
There is no revenue for that.
