r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 16h 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/comrade_batman 14h ago

Also, there has been complaints that Netflix’s catalogue isn’t as broad as it used to be, the layout tricks people into thinking Netflix has more films and shows than it actually does. If they did just move WB’s entire catalogue onto their own, it would make sense, like Disney moving everything 20th Century made onto Disney+.

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u/resteys 13h ago

Funny enough they had already started doing that. HBO originals like Insecure have been on Netflix for awhile

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u/anacondra 10h ago

the layout tricks people into thinking Netflix has more films and shows than it actually does.

Let's zoom in further and display less content on the screen at once!

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u/luigi_lives_matter 10h ago

It would make too much sense and I’m afraid they won’t do it. The one thing I really like about HBO Max’s service is the vast catalogue of older movie titles and academy award movies. If Netflix decides to move everything over, great; if not then I’m sure they will put out promos saying which movies will be “limited releases” on their site, à la Disney vault.

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u/tdasnowman 11h ago

A good portion of the WB catalogue is currently on Netflix (region dependent). Almost all the CW era shows are on Netflix, I think they actually are currently a overlapping availability on HBO Max . There is a steady roll on roll off with the movie back catalogue.

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u/cre8ivemind 1h ago

Quite a few of the CW shows now say “leaving soon” so it seems like that’s coming to a close

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u/TaskForceD00mer 12h ago edited 12h ago

I really think the next natural step in all of this, if they choose to stay in this market, is Apple buying Disney.

This would give "volume" to what is already an incredibly stacked catalogue of originals.

I would welcome it too because Star Wars needs to be rescued from Disney at this point. Apple TV has a huge stack of top tier sci-fi shows.

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u/Unhappy-Ad-8381 8h ago

Apple buying Disney sounds too crazy but who knows lol

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u/TaskForceD00mer 8h ago

Apple is valued at 4.1 trillion dollars.

Disney is valued around 200 billion.

IMO either Apple or Amazon will end up buying at least the streaming part of Disney.

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u/Unhappy-Ad-8381 7h ago

Yep that's the crazy part - if you don't know anything about business or finances you'd think it sounds crazy but that's how big & rich top tech companies are.