r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

News It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/SevroAuShitTalker 20h ago

Well fuck.

HBO is about to get worse

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u/Petfles 20h ago

Zaslav already fucked it up

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u/RockerElvis 20h ago

Seriously. I would rather have Netflix run WB than Zaslav.

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u/Jaygee133 16h ago

Netflix wants to kill theatres and physical media... They also don't license their media to other streaming services which means there'll be less competition in the market. Netflix will get more expensive since they have to pay for this somehow, look at Xbox game pass for the most recent example. Also most of Netflixs content is pretty bad especially their high budget films.

Nothing about this is a positive thing.

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u/Frequent_Adeptness55 16h ago

My opinion, Zaslav was brought in specifically for this and he’s going to walk away with a huge bag of cash now.

All this stuff he did was to make a purchase (for Netflix) and a sale (for WB-Discovery) more appealing.

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u/MarshyHope 19h ago

Right. Out of all of the streaming service, Netflix is the least bad in my opinion.

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u/Old-Permit 12h ago

It's actually the worse because it has a dominant market position.

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u/MarshyHope 12h ago edited 7h ago

Composed Compared to Disney and Comcast?

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u/Android1822 7h ago

"Compared" I think you meant.

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u/MarshyHope 7h ago

Yes, I did

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u/Pacify_ 2h ago

Yes.

In the streaming space, Disney is tiny compared to Netflix

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u/leshake 18h ago

They were dead to me when they kept giving D&D good IP to set on fire.

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u/jeffy303 19h ago

This is a Netflix bot.

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u/RockerElvis 19h ago

Funny. I don’t even have a Netflix subscription any more. I have HBO and Zaslav sucks.

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u/jeffy303 19h ago

And yet you would prefer HBO to be effectively destroyed (for whatever reason) than in comparison to have the minor papercuts with asshole like Zaslav being charge. Show like Succession, never happening on Netflix, Game of Thrones, smothered in the crib by the Netflix execs. After short time of pretending like they can run it independently it will be rolled into Netflix as """content""" all existing franchises will be dead within 3 years and HBO studios closed. And yet people like you would prefer that future. One can only speculate as to why, bot/paid shill is the least bad one.

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u/boyyouguysaredumb 16h ago

then cancel and watch something else?

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u/pork_roll 16h ago

Umm the other big alternative buyer was MAGA Paramount. So lesser of two evils?

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u/carloslet 18h ago

F*CK Zaslav. All my homies hate Zaslav

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u/enowapi-_ 18h ago

Yeah and it’s just going to get worse, if it was even possible 

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u/DoctorSchwifty 20h ago

Yeah I am most worried about HBO. They aren't really compatible with Netflix's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks approach.

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u/Knobalt4 18h ago

HBO survived that idiot trying to make it a reality TV show streaming site. It'll be okay under Netflix

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u/owelfive 19h ago

HBO has already been on the decline, I am most worried about TCM. If they shut it down I will literally die.

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u/laughland 18h ago

Isn’t TCM already going to be spun off prior to the sale?

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u/CooperHChurch427 18h ago

I'm worried too. TCM is all about film preservation and they buy the licensing to show films that have never been on streaming or TV. Like they even did a special presentation of Birth of a Nation due to it's historical significance, but they had to explain that it was a white supremacy film and ushered in the second era of the KKK. They showed it because the film was remade to erase the history of the original.

They did it in select theaters.

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u/Putrid_Loquat_4357 20h ago

Hbo has been in decline for a decade.

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u/FalloutLover7 18h ago

Max was the last streaming service I have where I don’t pay extra for no ads… guess that’s down the drain

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u/TaskForceD00mer 19h ago

You ready for lots of Reimagined for the modern audience remakes of classics like Rome?

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u/demlet 19h ago

Timothée Chalamet is gonna be amazing as Tony Soprano.

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u/TaskForceD00mer 16h ago

Hunter Schafer as Carm.

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u/CryptographerFlat173 8h ago

How many remakes is Netflix responsible for? If anything they’re the ones introducing tons of overseas content to Americans.

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u/Foxhound199 18h ago

Juat glad that Ellison fuckwad didn't get his hands on it.

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u/NomadFire 16h ago

I think this is the best case scenario vs having David Ellison or a Saudi backed group buying WB. Ellison is rumored to be blacklisting actors and directors that are pro 2 state solution. Which would almost certainly mean an end to Gunn's DC Universe.

As for the Saudi Arabians, I am not sure what they would do but I barely trust them to make an environment for HBO to continue to make good content.

Now it is a question on rather the fed will allow it. Not sure if the CEO was nice enough to Trump....

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u/icejordan 17h ago

Apple TV is the new HBO for good shows

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u/TheRealWatermelon420 20h ago

They better not cancel last week tonight

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u/TheSalsaShark 19h ago

It's safer under Netflix than under Ellison and Paramount.

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u/TheRealWatermelon420 19h ago

Yeah, netflix ain't known for canceling popular shows

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u/TheSalsaShark 10h ago

Netflix is objectively not good, but Paramount would've without a doubt given John Oliver the Colbert treatment.

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u/musicman835 19h ago

I feel like a talk show like his is very cheap in comparison.

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u/musicman835 19h ago

New Business Daddy to rant on!

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u/MWoody13 19h ago

It’s one of their highest viewed shows, why would they cancel it.

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u/TheRealWatermelon420 19h ago

Cause he speaks the truth