We're going to be releasing 12 films, 6 games. To participate in the Warner Bros. We've accomplished a significant amount in 2022, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the entire finance team for their persistence and resolve in working through these very difficult but necessary first steps, which has resulted in greater command, control and precision across the enterprise and laid the foundation on which we are positioning the company. Presentation. We haven't done new Harry Potter content in over a decade. Having said that, as we face this next upfront, which is coming up in two months, I think the breadth of our content together with where we go in on price, positions us very well. First, let me say, this promises to be a very exciting year for our company. "This promises to be a very exciting year for our company," he told investors during the company's Q4 earnings call . So David, as you said, '22 was a year of really heavy lifting and you had challenges really in every division, whether it was film, advertising, CNN, et cetera -- I mean, macro, et cetera, D2C. And the good news is we've had a real chance to look at content on each of the platforms over the last two years. Aug 9, 2022, 8:40 AM. And then there was a lot of content that just wasn't being viewed. Discovery might have had. That's what led us to the conclusion that direct to streaming movies were providing really no value to us. We are committed to continue executing our strategic initiatives to drive top line performance and with much repositioning behind us, we are beginning to fully lean into the opportunities ahead of us. We're committed to creating shows that people really want to watch, and they also want to experience them with other people. And there's a number of uncertainties as you wouldn't be surprised to hear. Among them, the integration and repositioning of our global finance organization through which we implemented a number of initiatives to drive efficiency and better support the company's long-term sustainable growth. No, I was just going to say that as David has said before, I think the industry obviously was at a scale at any cost. As you look out to '23, I think Gunnar kind of touched on some of the potential tailwinds, but it sounds like you're walking away from close to $12 billion in EBITDA to maybe low to mid-$11 billion in EBITDA. We're excited about JV's product relaunch in the second quarter, but those are uncertain factors that's very early in the year. And with the breadth and depth of content that we have across the company, we think we're very uniquely able to do that without jeopardizing or risking the subscription business, the theatrical business or some of our upstream windows, which we'll obviously continue to focus on. Discovery to Merge Streaming Services James Gunn, and Peter Safran were Appointed to Be Executives of DC Studios 'Stranger Things' Caleb McLaughlin Says He Wants to Place 'Static Shock' Margot Robbie on Lady Gaga Cast to Play Harley Quinn in 'Joker 2' And we were able in the upfront to drive price significantly more than all of our peers. With me today is David Zaslav, President and CEO; Gunnar Wiedenfels, our CFO; and JB Perrette, CEO and President, Global Streaming and Games. In recent weeks, we signed new deals with a number of the most prolific and celebrated creatives in the industry, including Greg Berlanti, Baz Luhrmann, M. Night Shyamalan, Akiva Goldsman and Zach Cregger with more to come. We are not conducting any type of audition. We must get it right. On the news side, we are fighting hard and making real progress. The replay can be accessed by phone by dialing +1 877-674-7070 or +1 416-764 . And to that point, I have no doubt that we have years and years of that coming our way. Turning to the total company EBITDA outlook. Participants must have the right to work in the United States or Canada. And we have high hopes for all of these metrics after the combined product launches to further improve. Today, I'm thrilled to announce that Mike and Pam signed a deal to make multiple Lord of the Rings movies. I am proud of what we achieved in 2022 against the targets we set out in the summer and against an increasingly challenging environment in the second half of the year, and I'm proud of the momentum we have built exiting the year. We are more confident than ever that we have the right strategy to be successful and ultimately achieve our goal of being the greatest media and entertainment company in the world. More Earnings Resources from MarketBeat Earnings Tools: Today's Earnings Tomorrow's Earnings Next Week's Earnings Upcoming Earnings Calls Earnings Call Transcripts Earnings Beats & Misses Corporate Guidance WarnerMedia Equity + Inclusion announces the WarnerMedia Access Talent Spotlight, a new talent training program for aspiring actors looking for professional development and resources. Number four, driving overall efficiency and free cash flow conversion towards our near-term goal of 1/3 to 1/2 conversion of adjusted EBITDA with longer-term upside towards our 60% goal. Many of those people are going to want to move up to a bigger product, more robust with a bigger offering. Adjusted EBITDA decreased 7% as revenue declines were partially offset by lower content expenses as well as lower personnel and marketing costs, in part reflecting our cost synergy efforts. And I think our diversity, we have all these different assets that have -- that are different. And Ben, on the D2C question, let me start with the revenue side of it. On the advertising side, it's kind of a complex answer. Discovery. Batman Day - September 17, 2022. Importantly, we successfully completed affiliate renegotiations, which accounted for more than 30% of U.S. distribution revenues and which brought our portfolio together coterminously. We were able to put that to work behind some of cases launches, behind some of our film launches. company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K. with that, I am pleased to turn the call over to David. It's significantly better outside the U.S. right now, which is a surprise. Is there any of your content that's definitely off the table to be included in that service? Wizarding World is the new official home of Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts. Warner Bros. Discovery's earnings are expected to grow from $0.97 per share to $1.79 per share in the next year, which is a 84.54% increase. And on the traditional side, we renewed agreements representing 30% of our U.S. affiliate revenues. In 2022, Warner Bros. will release Elvis, a biopic about the king of rock and roll himself. On direct-to-consumer, we are making meaningful progress on our goal to achieve real profitability in streaming, a key and powerful segment of our company. Passionate about supporting Creatives to develop, produce . So I think that I'm hyper-focused on this, meeting once a week with the team, but getting our stride as a new working team, and I feel like we're starting to get some momentum on that. And with that, I am pleased to turn the call over to David. Thank Sure. August 15, 2022 10:20am. International, some areas actually trending up now, others still difficult. Warner Bros. Pictures is a famous and popular American film production and distribution division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which is owned by Warner Bros. The best way to drive interest and engagement is not by dropping the entire season on a platform all at once, but by allowing the buzz and anticipation to build over time. We'll do a full presentation on April 12, which will lay out this significantly improved product, the launch, what will be on it. No. So that storytelling IP. And there's lots more to come including the highly anticipated Mortal Combat 12 and Suicide Squad - Kill The Justice League, games also set for release this year with ambitious launch projections. Discovery, Inc. ( NASDAQ: WBD) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 23, 2023 4:30 PM ET Company Participants Andrew Slabin - Executive Vice President, Global Investor. Games & Home entertainment faced difficult year-over-year comps as well due to last year's COVID-induced tailwind for library content. We continue to be the place creators are choosing to bring their visions to life. Is there -- what are you considering? NOW CASTING PAID EXTRAS (Ages 30 +) to portray ROADSIDE MOTEL GOERS for the NEW DC Comic series "NAOMI" for FRIDAY, 1/21/2022. And while this is indeed encouraging, we're hesitant to forecast any meaningful near-term revenue improvement. So again, as I said, a similar picture with more diversity. HBO and HBO Max Hit with 70 Layoffs at Warner Bros. So that is having some impact on us versus others that were -- that took a much bigger position in the upfront. Well, look, for us, the market right now, our focus is building a best-of-class product and putting all of our content together and so that it's easy to consume and that people are aware of all the different content that we have. Based on the traction we are seeing across the broad spectrum of operational and financial KPIs, we expect segment EBITDA to be more or less breakeven in Q1, which implies another $500 million improvement year-over-year, roughly in line with the improvement seen in Q4. Discovery advantage. Please. Yes. FAST is one area that as we look at the evolution of consumer behavior, we look at obviously a lot of the free-to-air viewing moving to what we call free-to-view online. And where does the WBD fit in that? And for us, DC alone will be -- could and should be a game changer. First for David, as part of the upcoming D2C relaunch, can you just talk a little bit about how you plan to balance protecting the HBO brand while at the same time, leaning on the HBO premium content to help drive the new service going forward? Discovery. I do believe, as JB said, and we do believe, as a company, that we'll sort of recreate this -- the streaming service, which is ad free, then which -- then there'll be ad-lite. There are some opportunities that I'm looking at below deck as we say, but none of that would be baked into this leverage guidance. Gunnar and the team are laser-focused on driving transformation throughout the organization, supporting our ability to further generate real free cash flow. You may now disconnect. Discovery CEO David Zaslav wants to redeem his predecessors' failure to rival Disney with its library of intellectual property through an unprecedented focus on tentpole events. Naturally, our domestic relaunch of the combined product offering in the spring will result in a sequential step-up in P&L investments in Q2 behind a requisite increase in marketing spend support and premier content launches. To that end, linear ad sales is a top priority at the moment, particularly as we balance both cyclical headwinds and ongoing secular challenges, much of which we've dealt with for the last several years. I think the focus for many of us is usually each company's top profitability, but maybe there's not enough attention to the fact that each of these moves could have pretty dramatic impacts to the industry and competitive landscape. But we -- I believe that we have an overwhelming advantage in the marketplace with the IP that we own, but to take -- to get that advantage, we have to create great content with that IP. Our next question comes from Ben Swinburne with Morgan Stanley. Gunnar will take you through all of the financials in our outlook, but I'm very pleased that we see our net leverage clearly below 4x by the end of this year, below 4x by the end of this year. We'll definitely -- we're definitely planning for revenue improvement. MACON RUSH CALL BACKGROUND Casting Notice *Warner Bros FEATURE FILM: "The Color Purple-The Musical' LOCATION: Macon, GA By Kevin P. King - April 7, 2022 487 0 Advertisements On Location Casting *RUSH CALL* - TODAY! We have a fantastic leadership team moving us forward, everyone rowing in the same direction. If you have an ad-blocker enabled you may be blocked from proceeding. 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