Did Netflix simply exacerbate a bunch of seasonal affective issues in cinephiles? Timed to wreck holidays like a spherical of end-of-year layoffs, the streaming large introduced plans to purchase Warner Bros, a film and tv studio with a full-century legacy. It’s potential that the acquisition received’t really undergo – and if it does, it received’t be for at the very least a yr. However the information nonetheless looms over year-end awards and list-making, and it’s going to take greater than a jingle-bell heist to steal again any vacation cheer for the leisure business, a lot much less halt the march of company consolidation and monopolization. Much more miserable: the entity that appears most capable of take motion towards that is … one other tried consolidation. Paramount has launched a bid for a hostile takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, which might convey two huge studios below one extraordinarily Trump-friendly umbrella. This is able to nearly actually additional cull the variety of wide-release motion pictures launched annually.
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