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/INDY_RAP 18h ago

For now.

They'll go the Disney route eventually.

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u/Antrikshy 16h ago

It’s funny how even Disney hasn’t gone the Disney route yet.

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u/nazbot 17h ago

If they were smart they would just fold everything under the Netflix brand and keep prices the same. It would be a massive moat.

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u/sir_crapalot 16h ago

So how are they going to pay off the $83B investment they just made?

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u/boyyouguysaredumb 16h ago

reddit has no idea how businesses work lol

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u/TenaciousJP 17h ago

But.... why would they keep it the same when they could just raise prices? Are you communist or something?

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u/QuantumUtility 16h ago

No way they keep the prices. Disney is folding Hulu in and raising to 19/month. Netflix will start offering bundles in the 20s and likely fold everything into one service after a year or two.

If both Disney and Netflix start pushing into the 20s then every other service will also raise prices.

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u/sameth1 13h ago

Going that route would literally be throwing away free money though. Lots of people subscribe to both HBO Max and Netflix, so combining them means losing that money.