> From the moral perspective, it is clear that WB clearly had real expenses. They spent money, bought rights, and tons of workers were paid good money.
Yes, they had expenses. You seem to have a very very rudimentary understanding of accounting and have conflated expenses with losses. An expense is not a loss. If you buy a factory for $1 million, you didn't lose $1 million dollars. You now have an asset, a factory, that is worth approximately $1 million. You don't get to go to the IRS and say "I lost $1 million dollars this year because I bought a factory". The IRS will tell you, no you didn't. You still have your $1 million, it's just now in the form of a factory instead of cash.
Likewise, WB spent money and created an asset, a film. That film has a market value. Maybe they don't like the film, but that doesn't change the reality that it's worth something. We know approximately how much it's worth because several other companies made offers to buy it.
Instead WB wants to lie and say it isn't worth anything. So, no I don't like how they are running their company when they want to lie and cheat to get out of paying the taxes they owe. You can't buy a factory for $1 million and then turn around and say "yeah, it's not worth anything anymore", and you shouldn't be able to say a movie isn't worth anything when it very clearly is. We do not gain anything by enabling companies or anyone to deny reality.
