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Last fall, Warner Bros. Discovery seemed willing to entertain the idea of letting another studio release director Dave Green\u2019s Coyote vs. Acme <\/em>after initially announcing its plans to Batgirl<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(read: cancel in exchange for tax write-offs<\/a>) the nearly completed film in early November<\/a>. But according to a new report, the studio rejected multiple offers that could have led to the embattled project finally seeing the light of day, and the final decisions were made by executives who had not actually seen the finished movie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to TheWrap<\/em><\/a>, Amazon, Netflix, and Paramount were more than interested in securing the rights to debut Coyote vs. Acme <\/em>for themselves <\/em>after Warner Bros. changed stances<\/a> and gave the filmmakers behind the live-action \/ CGI hybrid project a chance to shop it around to other studios. But while each of the studios reportedly submitted \u201chandsome offers\u201d for the rights \u2014 with Paramount\u2019s even including plans for a theatrical release \u2014 they all fell short of the $75\u2013$80 million figure WBD was apparently looking for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Studios being bullish about the prices they\u2019re willing to sell distribution rights off for is one thing, but WBD reportedly came out of the gate flat-out refusing to hear any counteroffers. And while the interested buyers\u2019 offers were all, in part, informed by how well received Coyote vs. Acme <\/em>was at internal screenings, none of the WBD executives \u2014 CEO \/ president David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation president Bill Damaschke \u2014 who shot down those potential deals saw the final product for themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There are any number of reasons Warner Bros. Discovery could trot out to explain why it repeatedly turned its nose up at the chance to make a bit of easy money by letting someone else put out a movie it wants nothing to do with. We\u2019ll probably never know the truth, but it really just seems as if the studio\u2019s leadership simply does not want <\/em>it streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of conversation at this point. It\u2019s\u2026certainly a choice, and one the company seems intent on sticking to, but it\u2019s hard to imagine this inspiring much confidence in the filmmakers still working with the studio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n