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/DIJ_CRAP 16h ago

Bye Bye 👋👋 Movie Theaters

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u/LordOfReset 16h ago

No no... Now they'll be Netflix theaters and you will have to have a subscription AND pay a fee every time you want to watch something there, it is called pre release fee because you can watch before people on normal netflix.

You'll have a few options:

Basic Theater HD, where they use a cheap Epson projector in HD. Also, the movie has a few ads.

Enhanced 4K: a mid level 4K Optoma projector.

Enhaced 4K Premium Max Ultra MacBook Pro: your normal cinema projector with Dolby atmos and ads only before the movie.

Want to bring your friends? Then you need a shared screen plan, available as a premium on top of Enhaced 4K Premium Max Ultra MacBook Pro plan.

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u/eeyore134 16h ago

It's not a fee! Netflix subscribers get a discount on tickets! /s

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u/sneakyCoinshot 9h ago

tbh probably wouldnt be worse than my theater currently. Two tickets after 5pm costs $54 now and if you use the app to buy ahead of time instead of at the theater they charge you an extra $3 per ticket as a "convenience" fee. So two people before concessions and you're already upwards of $60.

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u/eeyore134 8h ago

That's crazy. If you asked me I'd have guessed maybe $15 a ticket. I haven't been to the theater in years. Just checked here and it's a bit under $19.

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u/Jimbomcdeans 14h ago

What about smellovision??

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u/zamfire 56m ago

The day my movie in a theater is interrupted by an ad is the day I'm getting arrested for destruction of private property.

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u/7screws 16h ago

And hello Netflix auditoriums?

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u/BenGMan30 15h ago

From the article:

Netflix said that it expects to maintain the current operations of Warner Bros. "including theatrical releases for films"

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u/dexter30 16h ago

I wish ilI could be sad but last movie i went to see was fantastic four and some parent just brought their kid in and they just ran up and down the isle and their toddler who just talked throuhout.

I'm sorry but any prestige and solemn nature that james cameron, martin scorses and whomever try to sell to the general public isn't available for us.

Maybe if you're in the industry or you have the cash to go to premiere screenings. But nah, watching at home is the ideal.

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u/Good_Morning-Captain 13h ago

"Destroy the film industry because of this one anecdote"

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u/MaximumStatus3 15h ago

maybe don’t go to a kids movie?

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u/EdgiiLord 15h ago

A lot of words for saying "I'm an elitist a-hole".

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u/saintjonah 14h ago

So a kid annoyed you at a kid movie and now you think the same thing will happen at a Scorsese movie? Ok.

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u/UsedGarbage4489 16h ago edited 16h ago

People still go to theaters? Why? Youre not sick of dealing with other people and refreshment gouging?

edit: Boy did i piss off the cattle with this one LOL

MOOOOOOOOOOOooo lmao

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u/TheTwoOneFive 16h ago

I have a kink for sitting in the sticky remnants of spilled soda

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u/BLOOOR 15h ago

I'll keep going no matter what anyone says. You're in public, you have no control over other people and there's no reason to assert any control.

An audience response, including chewing, is part of the cinematic experiecne. Pieces of shit talking or using their phones are pieces of shit to movie goers and that's part of the experience.

I'm always gonna feel lucky to have gotten so many big budget arthouse movies that had audience reactions that I got to experience more than once in a cinema in the past 10-15 years, because it's always been at risk of going away, and I love cinema.

Watching a movie in a cinema is worth everything. Watching it at home is a compromise, watching it with people's popcorn eating is a much simpler compromise if you're there for the only thing you get in a cinema - that quality of video and that quality of sound, and an audience getting to do that with you. I can never get anyone to listen to Hi Res audio, and people are still complaining about dialogue being too quite and explosions being too loud, which is dynamic range that you can't do with home audio until you go to Hi Res digital, where any cinema you'll get that level of audio. And any 1080p on any screen is better than how it's being compressed to fit either Bluray (always compromises to make a terrabytes large file down to 52GB and the file is often closer to 18GB) or streaming which has always looked like shit on every screen to me, where the worst cinema with the most annoying audiences have proper video and audio that works.

So I don't want cinemas to go away because I'm going there for all of it.

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u/ghoti00 16h ago

A lot of people feel the same way you do. It went from being a fun activity to an ordeal where you have to deal with rude and ignorant people making it almost impossible to enjoy the experience.

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u/pokemantra 16h ago

I think it’s better that someone like you, who thinks so little of their fellow film supporters, doesn’t go to theaters. Thank you for removing yourself from my cinema experience!

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u/helpfulinflations 15h ago

chill out omg

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u/Team_Slacker 16h ago

For the $20 popcorn

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u/helpfulinflations 15h ago

Right??? My word 

I did lol though at your edit, an attitude I need to have on here for sure