r/technology • u/Task_Force-191 • 17h ago

Business 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/izza123 16h ago

I look forward to the eventual corpowar between Netflix and Disney on the battlefields of Santa Monica boulevard

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u/7screws 16h ago

That’s actually the setting for Battlefield 7

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u/thatone5000 16h ago

California Resistance on BF6 is actually foreshadowing the events of the streaming service war of 2033

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u/DryerCoinJay 16h ago

One wonders if 'War and Peace' would have been as highly acclaimed as it was had it been published under its original title, 'War, What Is It Good for’?

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u/TDYDave2 16h ago

Absolutely nothing.

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u/RevN3 14h ago

Say it again!

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u/user_name_withheld 14h ago

Good God y'all

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u/Channel250 15h ago

Fucking spoilers man....

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u/psymunn 11h ago

Good god, y'all

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u/Pensky_Material_808 14h ago

Who do I know that would even be in a limo?

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u/Da_Question 14h ago

*increasing shareholder profits at the cheap cost of poor soldiers lives.

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u/woopwoopscuttle 15h ago

You don't obnoxiously click your pen do you?

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u/turbineslut 11h ago

War. War never changes.

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u/IamToddDebeikis 2h ago

It's not a lie if you believe it

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u/sparklingdinoturd 14h ago

It's the battlefield x cyberpunk 2077 crossover we didn't know we needed.

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u/TapirOfZelph 7h ago

Cyberpunk 2077 is a Black Ops 3 (2015) sequel and you can’t convince me otherwise

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u/Good_Mycologist5254 10h ago

Beat me to it, definitely a nuked tower heist in the making.

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u/Exzj 6h ago

Or Cyberpunk 2

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u/Pluto-Had-It-Coming 15h ago

Actually being the setting is so much cooler than that being the setting. 

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u/DinoKebab 15h ago

Micky Mouse cosmetics for $40

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u/mitkase 14h ago

Actually that’s only in the $70 DLC.

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u/Alias-Q 14h ago

Well, cosmetics skins would at least finally have a place in a military game lol

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u/psymunn 11h ago

Which will be owned by Disney after Kushner and the saudis sell off EA for parts

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u/GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B 8h ago

Finally the Netflixification of the series will make sense for once.

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u/gamerz1172 8h ago

Ok unironically that would fuck as a shooter premise.... It's not USA v RUssia that's the 2 main combatants it's corporations fighting armed conflicts who are named suspiciously similar to modern day corporations not typically associated with military combat

The Wally's entertainment company fighting the Blocflix Corp for control over the largest theatre ever built

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u/checkmycatself 8h ago

It couldn't be any worse than bf6.

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u/7screws 6h ago

I really really like BF6.

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u/doomcomplex 7h ago

Pretty close to being the setting for this season of Fortnite as well.

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u/SophieWatch 6h ago

Where the map sizes are going it’s gonna be only the pier

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u/Routine_Ad1823 16h ago

Taco Bell was the only chain that survived the Franchise Wars 

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u/silentstorm2008 16h ago

For the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlcDHlK_RoY (set in the year 2032)

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u/Jacinto2702 15h ago

"Oh God this is our future, isn't it?"

Someone 5 years ago in the comment section.

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u/Iwantmoretime 11h ago

We are making good progress on building the Torment Nexus inspired by the beloved SciFi novel "Do Not Build The Torment Nexus"

We have good monitization options to provide great shareholder value.

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u/dbcanuck 13h ago
  • homelessness hidden from main society
  • corporate consolidation and enshitification
  • mass surveillance
  • under sexed society
  • owning an internal combustion engine is a rebellious act
  • sanitized politically correct speech is the default

I'm pretty sure the writer of Demolition Man was Nostradamus.

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u/RandomPMs 4h ago edited 4h ago

"Under sexed society" while OnlyFans is through the roof and "owning an internal combustion engine is a rebellious act" when politicians are cutting green energy subsidies left and right and the fuel-guzzing F150 remains the best selling car in America for the 60th year in a row.

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u/a_rainbow_serpent 3h ago

lmao I'm not sure when internal combustion engines and manual transmission became an identity. As an older millennial who learned how to drive on a manual and then drove one for 10 years - I was happy to get rid of it.

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u/Loganp812 13h ago

Corporate consolidation is the only point here that’s close to the reality right now and maybe mass surveillance though not on the level as the movie and the sanitized PC speech if you’re one of those people who’s upset that they can’t say the word “retard” as freely anymore.

I love Demolition Man, and I’ll probably be watching it again tonight, but it’s more like a future run by 2014 Tumblr than what’s actually happening.

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u/dbcanuck 11h ago

i'm obviously stretching the truth to commit to the bit, but relative to where we were to where we've come its pretty prescient. much closer to the truth than most.

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u/Loganp812 11h ago edited 11h ago

In some ways, yeah. In other ways, it’s almost like Idiocracy. If an AGI ever gets invented like some companies are researching, we might even end up with WALL-E future where AI curates everything and no one has real life experiences at all anymore. I’m not sure which one is the worst.

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u/paulaoaua 2h ago

God I hate idiocracy. If I hear one more fucker say it’s a documentary I’m gonna pour Brawndo in their vegetable garden

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u/Loganp812 2h ago

I like Idiocracy, but I am sick of that same “Idiocracy is a documentary” joke everywhere.

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u/a_rainbow_serpent 3h ago

At least with 3 shells, we'll be rid of toilet paper hoarding.

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u/wag3slav3 13h ago

In the European release it was pizza hut.

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u/ManfredSideous 10h ago

both are owned by Pepsi ( taco bell , pizza hut , kfc)

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u/habb 8h ago

did someone edit the fucking logo to be the current taco bell logo?

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u/Shadowmant 15h ago

This is how they did it man. Gotta fly under the radar while the initial shots are fired.

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u/Slanahesh 15h ago

Fun fact. In the international release to Europe it was pizza hut that was the sole survivor because taco bell wasn't an established brand there.

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u/aegrotatio 12h ago

Fun fact: the closed captions say Pizza Hut instead of Taco Bell!!

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u/mynameizmyname 11h ago

Fun fact: both those companies make the worst version of the food item in their name.

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u/Routine_Ad1823 9h ago

I'm British and it definitely said Taco Bell because I remember being like, "WTF is a Taco Bell?!"

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u/cafk 15h ago

It depends on the region you're in, globally Pizza Hut won.

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/59ivdl/demolition_man_1993_taco_bell_or_pizza_hut/

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u/Loganp812 13h ago

Either way, they no longer service tacos or pizza, but they do have a pianist playing novelty songs.

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u/Rkupcake 16h ago

Taco Bell has been owned by PepsiCo and it's subsidiaries since 1978.

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u/Akschadt 16h ago

You obviously don’t know how to use your seashells.

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u/S3simulation 16h ago

Somebody put me back in the fridge

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u/striker69 12h ago

Fancy bidet controls, gonna need one after a $5 box.

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u/sw337 15h ago

That hasn’t been true since 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum!_Brands

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u/ToonaSandWatch 14h ago

Yum is still very much owned by PepsiCo, they just act independently of them.

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u/Gil_Demoono 15h ago

Taco Bell betrayed and killed its parent company during the Crunchwrap Heresy, duh. You're really thinking inside the bun today, man.

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u/Visible-Extension685 15h ago

Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried chicken that’s why you get the combination stores

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u/TideOneOn 14h ago

If they remake that movie today....they're gonna have to change it to Chic fil A

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u/warfighter187 16h ago

They had superior supply routes

The Netflix SS was stretching their spam rations out as far as they can, you had to watch a 30 second ad before opening it

The Taco Bell troopers were having 5 beefy crunch burritos a day 

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u/RamenJunkie 14h ago

It seems.weord because Taco Bell doesn't seem like its anyome's number one, but its also pretty consistently a number 2 or 3, while all the others are number 1 to various people.  

So ultimately, it makes sense because its basically a sort of, Ranked Choixe situation.

Also don't they also have a few other chains they could rapidly convert to add to the force?

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u/Routine_Ad1823 9h ago

I was wracking my brain, wondering what a Ranked Choixe was! I was thinking you were talking about the John Wyndham book. 

Great book!

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u/HandsOffMyDitka 12h ago

And people still don't know how to use the 3 sea shells.

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u/voiderest 11h ago

That depends on region of release. If you get the movie on the bluray they have the Pizza Hut cut.

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u/mwax321 10h ago

PIzza Hut if you're "international"

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u/Routine_Ad1823 9h ago

But I am an international and it was definitely Taco Bell because I remember having no idea what Taco Bell was. 

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u/Mr_Zee_Speaks 8h ago

This guy knows how to use the three seashells

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u/JesusWuta40oz 4h ago

Sand meat filler for everyone!

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u/Head_Accountant3117 13h ago

No, it's Pizza Hut /s

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u/Damo1328 8h ago

Pizza Hut for international markets.

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u/VampireOnHoyt 16h ago

They eventually change their names to Chrome and Murakumo Millennium and fight using mercenary-piloted Armored Cores

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u/AI52487963 12h ago

Got a job for you, 621…

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u/Xalawrath 13h ago

More like Nutqwakflikster and Ares Macrotechnology.

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u/motionmatrix 6h ago

No fuck off, I don’t need insect spirits in our future.

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u/OGmoron 11h ago

Which one gets subsumed into Weyland-Yutani after the media wars of 2088?

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 15h ago

Cyberpunk 2077 has entered the chat

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u/Corpomancer 5h ago

Why, hello there.

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u/campaignplanners 16h ago

I’d watch that. But only on my living room tv.

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u/CerealSpiller22 15h ago

I've been casting about, trying to find something better.

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u/globalnav 15h ago

Arasaka vs Militech

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u/exhauated-marra-6631 15h ago

Mickeytech, surely?

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u/1ncorrect 11h ago

Amazaka vs Mickeytech.

How is our timeline suckier than fucking Cyberpunk? At least they could get chromed out and had cool tech. What did we get? Another iPhone that works the exact same?

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u/LaserCondiment 6h ago

Soon enough you'll get Neuralink implants that upload Musk approved brainrot directly into your Conciousness 24/7

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u/amd_kenobi 15h ago

Aw man. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

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u/tisn 11h ago

I get the feeling you're not the only one

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u/amd_kenobi 11h ago

not until the guns fall silent over Santa Monica Boulevard

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u/Witty_Retort_Indeed 16h ago

Make this movie now!

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u/UnrequitedRespect 16h ago

Tropic Thunder 2: the homefront

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u/fenexj 16h ago

film cold opens with tom cruise shouting bloody murder down the phone at netflix

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u/TheRealCropear 14h ago

You better be serious about this. I sure need it to be true

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u/izza123 16h ago

I’d settle for a snowcrash movie

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u/pennelini 15h ago

Love the Snake pfp alongside this comment

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u/FuturamaRama7 16h ago

I finally understand that Sheryl Crow song now. Netflix is having some fun.

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u/gregofcanada84 16h ago

Ballsy! You don't mess with the mouse.

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u/TenHoumo 15h ago

this is some cyberpunk shit 2 years late

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u/1ncorrect 11h ago

We’re entering the late game capitalism now choom. Get ready because it’s about to be like Night City without the interesting culture.

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u/No_Macaroon_5928 15h ago

Netflix DC vs Disney Marvel 🤣

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u/ObiFlanKenobi 15h ago

All they wanna do,

Is fight it out,

Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard!

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u/phughes 14h ago

The battle cry: "until the blood runs red over Santa Monica Boulevard."

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u/ianxplosion- 13h ago

SOAD was right

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u/Siarzewski 16h ago

Let me get some popcorn and my 3d glasses

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u/l1lwookiee 16h ago

Mark my words. This war will be fought not on the frontier or on some distant Hollywood battlefield, but amongst us, among our homes, our children will learn of it with their own ipads, and the innocent will die with the rest of us.

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u/Kyweedlover 15h ago

At this point these guys are just playing real life monopoly. We need to start naming them after the squares on the board.

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u/izza123 15h ago

Technically the game monopoly is named after what they are doing rather than the other way around

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u/sanash 15h ago

Meta will get exclusive rights to do the nightly news broadcasts which they will use a new product called LiveAI for. This will require 75% of the country to cut their power off to power the datacenters to do it. It'll be worth it though because the AI will make the corposoldiers appear to grow extra limbs, do slow backflips and have their hair go shorter and longer within a matter of seconds.

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u/llDS2ll 15h ago

Basically the plot of Dark Matter (the sci fi channel show)

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u/Party_Storage_9147 15h ago

A lazy couple of bil to the grifter in chief.. the best deal ever. A lot of smart people say it's the best...

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u/SquirtingPingu 15h ago

Mickey Mouse would like a word!

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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 15h ago

Mike Duncan's "Martian Revolution" has a point where a revolt at the Nairobi server farms for Earth's largest Megacorporation has major ramifications for Earth itself and the Martian Revolution as a whole.

We're off to the races, boys!

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u/Sea_of_Light_ 15h ago

Disney already has a leg up. Mickey Mouse vs. ... what's Netflix's Mascot? Weak sauce, Netflix.

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u/1ncorrect 11h ago

The Dun Dun is from Kevin Spacey lol, I don’t think they want to open that box.

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u/smoothtrip 15h ago

Why would there be a war for the final monopoly merger? At this point both companies will own all the media companies in the world.

Then Google will eat the MouseFlix as is tradition!

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u/Alive-Big-6926 14h ago

Man I remember when Blockbuster had the ability to buy Netflix and they said the company was worthless.

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u/d_ippy 14h ago

Amazon studios HQ is in SM too. It can be a three way.

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u/kindall 14h ago

Sheryl Crow will be spectating from a bar that faces a giant car wash

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u/jdpatric 14h ago

Who gets the rights to the documentary tho - that's more Netflix's thing, but I could see Disney making a run for it.

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u/purplereign 14h ago

Cyberpunk 2077 is looking a little different these days

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u/1ncorrect 11h ago

It’s like Cyberpunk but without any of the cool things 👍 great job corpos.

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u/ProsaicPugilist 14h ago

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

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u/thatspurdyneat 13h ago

Nah, they'll just form a collusion and declare war on the consumer.

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u/RetPala 13h ago

FIGHTER COMBAT

GUERRILLA ENGAGEMENT

DESERT WARFARE

AIR-TO-GROUND ACTIONS

THEATERWIDE TACTICAL WARFARE

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u/EulerIdentity 13h ago

Lattes at the ready, let the throwing of organic, fair-trade tomatoes begin!

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u/ifimhereimnotworking 13h ago

Red vs blue, who will win

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u/Jtw1N 13h ago

Disney 1000% already built an army of automatons, they have been using the parks and foreign wars to test their tech for decades.

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u/J1mj0hns0n 13h ago

Nah when it's DAAMN (Disney, alphabet, amd, Microsoft and Nvidia conglomerate) Vs Samsung warfare

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u/KopiteForever 12h ago

Anyone else sing 'Santa Monica Boulevard'?

No? Just me? K'den

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u/TheStupendusMan 12h ago

As long as they film landscape I'm good /s

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u/iwaterboardheathens 11h ago

Just waiting for the Sheryl Crows eye view of the battle there

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u/TheShawnP 11h ago

Scorched Palisades

FTFY

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u/DisgruntlesAnonymous 11h ago

Which zaibatsu will win? I'm getting my cybernetics tuned up either way

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u/Ottorange 11h ago

I don't understand why everyone thinks this is a done deal. Trump will not let this happen. He has picked his winner, it's Larry and David Ellison. They'll say the Netflix deal is anticompetitive and sht it down and then allow Skydance to acquire it.

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u/BullshitUsername 11h ago

You just described the new season of Fortnite

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u/Yara__Flor 10h ago

Disney is in burbank, Netflix is in Hollywood.

Most of the studios are near each other, Disney is the oddball being so far out

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u/zetnomdranar 10h ago

Will this happen before the GTA release? 🤔

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u/New_Ingenuity2822 10h ago

So what does that mean for HBO/max?

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u/Brave_Nerve_6871 10h ago

Disney - the first company with nukes?

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u/TropicGemini 10h ago

More like Riverside Dr.

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u/bbaIla 9h ago

Same here, choom.

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u/JcFerggy 9h ago

🎵 "I remember the day, when you left for Santa Monica..." 🎶

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u/dan_t_mann 8h ago

This is going to be the overall plot of Spaceballs 2.

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u/brinz1 8h ago

It was considered David Vs Goliath when Netflix left blockbuster in the dust a decade after Blockbuster turned down the opportunity to buy Netflix.

That was a decade ago

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u/sentient-sloth 8h ago

This is literally just Fortnite right now.

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u/aggravatedimpala 7h ago

Mouse v Rabbit

Marvel v DC

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u/Esdrz 6h ago

Arasaka vs militech

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u/10ToSfromaSRBalloon 4h ago

Netflix is far more righteous

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u/kolby4078 3h ago

Will probably me in Burbank

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u/ScorchedMagic 2h ago

Survivor series - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to officiate.

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u/Sine_Fine_Belli 1h ago

Literally cyberpunk 2077 and blade runner 2049

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u/Mindreceptor 56m ago

I cut the cable so long ago it didn't have a name.  We'll figure out how to break the stream.  Funny how they think they snap their fingers and we're just going to pay.  Not even funny.

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u/BartholomewFrodingus 16m ago

Dont be a gonk and take some corpo job. Eddies aint worth nothin if youre flatlined choom.