They persuade Joab, Nemo's first mate, to allow them to commandeer the smaller Nautilus II which Nemo has based in the glass-domed city. Two brothers, Barnaby and Swallow, also wish to depart, but for a different motive: Templemer is rich with gold extracted from the sea, and the brothers plan to steal the gold and carry it to the mainland. Senator Fraser tries to persuade Nemo to allow him to continue his diplomatic mission, the prevention of the spread of the American Civil War to Europe. Lomax, one of those rescued, is claustrophobic and dies while frantically trying to escape. The submarine takes the survivors to Templemer, a self-contained underwater city ruled by Captain Nemo, who is attempting to establish an underwater utopia. Guardian Australia understands post-production on Nautilus will continue and the filmmakers are confident the series will find a new screening partner.In the early 1860's, the submarine Nautilus I picks up six survivors shipwrecked in an Atlantic storm. Paramount+ recently scorched the Grease prequel series The Pink Ladies mere weeks after it streamed its final episode. Warner Bros Discovery has also begun removing shows from streaming to writedown their value, including Made for Love, Love Life, Westworld and The Nevers among many others, and reversed a season two renewal for Minx. These included recent releases such as The Mighty Ducks sequel series, a John Stamos show called Big Shot, the Willow follow-up and the movie adaptation of Artemis Fowl. “I’m seeing a greater trend of bottom-line decision making from very large corporations, and when you have a big production, it’s a bigger target.”Įarlier this year, Disney began to remove a number of its original movies and TV, to claim a tax writedown of their value. “We creative people know it’s a money game, but you do dare to dream sometimes … It’s a kick in the guts when you realise if the numbers don’t add up, it is all over,” they said. It stings when it suddenly goes up in smoke.” “You might think of the lead actors or the writers as the figureheads of the show, but there’s a lot of heart from a lot of people. “There’s an immense number of individuals who put in the work, the artists and artisans that create a show or movie,” a person working on a recently shelved project told the Guardian. These decisions can be devastating to those working on the productions. It was financially more lucrative to not release the title and claim a tax writedown on the cost of production than to invest more money in reshoots, marketing and royalty payments. Last year, Warner Bros Discovery announced it would permanently shelve the $US80m movie adaptation of Batgirl, despite the fact it had already wrapped. Wall Street investors have heaped pressure on studios and entertainment companies to be more profitable, even as the actors and writers unions continue to strike for better conditions and pay, transparency around viewership, and protections against AI use. These cuts follow months of upheaval in the entertainment industry, which is going through a period of contraction after years of aggressive growth and high budgets. Both Nautilus and The Spiderwick Chronicles are now being shopped around to other platforms, according to Deadline. Nautilus’s axing comes at the same time as a similar fate for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series filmed in Vancouver, Canada which was also culled from Disney+’s upcoming slate despite having completed filming. Sign up for our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning In these circumstances, cancelling a series or movie – or removing it from streaming – reduces its value on Disney’s books, which decreases the company’s tax burden. “To solve this we must lift the domestic sector and provide local productions greater resources to allow them to properly compete,” he said at the time.Īccording to American trade website Deadline, Nautilus was dropped as part of cost-cutting at the Hollywood studio, which plans to trim $US3bn from its non-sports programming, which includes taking between $US1.5bn to $US1.8bn in tax writedown. Speaking to the Guardian earlier this year, Matthew Deaner of Screen Producers Australia said that state and federal location incentives to lure Hollywood productions to film in Australia were affecting local productions, which often didn’t fit the criteria for incentives, and were now competing with major US studios for studio spaces and crew. Screen Queensland declined to reveal the value of government incentives the production received, citing commercial in confidence. At the time, Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk flagged the prospect of multiple seasons to be filmed in the state. When Nautilus was announced in 2021, the Queensland government touted the production would inject $96m into the local economy and create 240 positions for crew and 350 jobs for background actors.
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