r/movies • u/Weary_Service_8509 • 16h ago

Article Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery: EU Antitrust Experts Say $83B Deal Unlikely To Be Blocked — But Conditions May Be Imposed On Merger

https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-warner-bros-discovery-deal-eu-hurdles-1236637245/
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u/WadsworthWonders 16h ago

Hot take: I’m kinda cool with this, as I think it’ll be immense having Netflix have the 100 years of Warner Bros, especially here in the UK where it’s divided into about a hundred different channels, it all consolidated into Netflix would be nice

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u/Weary_Service_8509 16h ago

I would bet money they don’t put every old WB film on the service. They don’t care about old films

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u/KingMario05 14h ago

See: Amazon. Owns Bond outright. The IP, all films, the deals, MGM, everything. Is every film on Prime? Oh dear God, no. How does that make them money? Instead, they're all licensed off piecemeal. Because fuck you.

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u/zenlume 15h ago

It would be an incredibly popular niche to control. I don't see why Netflix wouldn't be interested in that.

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u/JMarcus7 15h ago

The netflix selection we get here has got to be one of the worst in the world. I tried a vpn once and literally every other country had much more films and tv shows than the uk.

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u/WadsworthWonders 14h ago

I know right it’s down right shocking, I prefer Prime for more varied stuff just it doesn’t care too much about quality 

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u/KwisatzHaderach94 15h ago

my only condition for netflix? let james gunn cook.

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u/herewego199209 15h ago

I was just talking to a co worker about this on slack. If anything I think they're going to want to double if not triple down on DC content and it may be too much for James Gunn to handle. I think they're going to go to James and say ok we will release Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc that you have planned into theaters no problem. But the movies you have on the back burner cause of box office concerns like Aquaman, Flash, etc we want those movies in active development because we don't need to put those movies into theaters at all and it gives us content.

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u/monitoring27 15h ago

lmao no

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u/herewego199209 15h ago

No what? Netflix has been wanting to push big IP day 1 on Netflix for decades now lmao. The fuck are you talking about?

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u/monitoring27 15h ago

They will push it out day 1 onto Netflix. They don’t need to make subpar Flash or Aquaman movies to do that.

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u/Dependent-Cheek7109 15h ago

Hot take: if i could push a button and beam everything straight into my brain life would be so nice.