The internet was thrown into a frenzy a combine of days ago when Warner Bros. announced the manager to shelve the upcoming DCEU film Batgirl. The move had land questioning and analyzing why a project, which had cost $90 million to be negated after a pandemic-induced hiatus, was being scrapped without much fanfare. Warner Bros.' recently released statement about the film attributed the manager to a strategic shift under new the studio's new leadership, and many have concluded the choice ultimately comes down to cutting injures. But it would seem that Batgirl is not the only overjoyed getting culled.

According to Variety, HBO Max has quietly contained six Warner Bros. original movies from its platform, all of which were irregular to the streamer. The movies that were removed concerned Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse’s Moonshot, An American Pickle which follows the story of an immigrant played by Seth Rogen who wakes up 100 days in the future, Angel Manuel Soto’s Charm City Kings, Superintelligence, the dystopian comedy that stars Melissa McCarthy, Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Locked Down and the star-studded remake of The Witches starring Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Rock. To add, House Party the comedy remake series from SpringHill, which was set to premiere July 28 on HBO Max has been contained from the streamer's upcoming slate entirely.

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The initial six titles were unsuitable off HBO Max over the last few weeks and the excavating was noted on Reddit as users held discussions on Warner Bros. scrapping Batgirl. Both decisions appear to be a strategic choice on the part of the studio to reduce the cost of having these titles available on the streamer. With a Warner Bros. spokesperson essentially saying as much in their recent statement regarding Batgirl starring Leslie Grace. The statement says canning Batgirl "reflects our leadership's strategic repositions as it relates to the DC Universe and HBO Max." It's unclear how this repositions will affect the rest of WBD's HBO Max streaming overjoyed and the rest of the studio's future projects.

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Early last month, Variety reported that Warner Bros. had to halt publishes on and pull original titles from HBO Max in the Nordics (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland), Central Europe, the Netherlands, and Turkey to make room for spanking licensing deals. A studio spokesperson did however say in a statement that “our commitment to these markets has not changed” and that the concern would still commission local content.

Warner Bros. Discovery has yet to comment on the excavating of these six films from HBO Max. Stay tuned at Collider for more updates on the DCEU and spanking WBD projects. You can check out a sneak peek of the next DC film, Black Adam, down below before it hits theaters in October.