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Netflix has agreed to buy the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery for $72bn in a major Hollywood deal.

The streaming giant emerged as the successful bidder for Warner Bros ahead of rivals Comcast and Paramount Skydance after a drawn-out battle.

Warner Bros owns franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and the streaming service HBO Max.

The takeover is set to create a new giant in the entertainment industry, but the deal will still have to be approved by competition authorities.

 

Guess its better than David Ellison buying them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce91x2jm5pjo

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Somebody posted this earlier on an animation forum:

Bye DC Universe

Bye Adult Swim

Bye Warner Bros

Bye Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe

Bye Cartoon Network

Bye Looney Tunes

Bye Warner Bros. Animation

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If Netflix were smart, they would completely open up those vaults and put everything out there on Netflix and keep all of those groups listed above.

There is so much good content contained within Warner Brothers and HBO and I never ever understood why that stuff was not available. I get that some of it was licensed out here and there to other services or channels/studiots, but there is some really good stuff in there that a lot of people would love to have, that's not available online.

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47 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Certainly better if you enjoy not having movies in theaters and paying Netflix $80 a month.

who is paying netflix $80/month?

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How are the apps going to be handled? Will Netflix absorb everything on Max into their app or allow Max to stay a standalone app?

We are seeing this with Disney and Hulu. They are going to combine into one next year. If you have both (we do), all of Hulu's content is already being shown in Disney's app. 

So much to unfold here. HBO's content dwarfs Netflix's to me, especially all of their original shows dating back almost 30 years,.

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2 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

How are the apps going to be handled? Will Netflix absorb everything on Max into their app or allow Max to stay a standalone app?

We are seeing this with Disney and Hulu. They are going to combine into one next year. If you have both (we do), all of Hulu's content is already being shown in Disney's app. 

So much to unfold here. HBO's content dwarfs Netflix's to me, especially all of their original shows dating back almost 30 years,.

The answer is yes, eventually. It’s a battle for eyeballs, and the more you give the consumer the opportunity to switch apps, the more you give them the opportunity to switch to another corporation’s app. 

you will be paying $80 for a Netflix/HBO streaming package, and your choice for theatrical and physical media will dwindle. 

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11 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

The answer is yes, eventually. It’s a battle for eyeballs, and the more you give the consumer the opportunity to switch apps, the more you give them the opportunity to switch to another corporation’s app. 

you will be paying $80 for a Netflix/HBO streaming package, and your choice for theatrical and physical media will dwindle. 

I can see that. I wonder how this will affect the people who get Netflix at a discount through certain channels. We get Netflix at a big discount through T-Mobile. But I imagine they will take this merger into account for these customers. 

Netflix no ads plus Max no ads currently is what price? We used to use my fiance's sister's Max account for years until they cracked down hard on password sharing a few months ago. We are currently shopping around for this app as we enjoy it. I see it being offered in the Hulu/Disney/Max bundle. We already have Hulu/Disney/ESPN+. I am perfectly happy to replace ESPN+ with Max. ESPN+ shows a whole bunch of lower tier games I don't care about. But with Hulu and Disney merging in 2026 and now this HBO/Netflix merger, no idea what will happen with this bundle.

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Fuck at least David Zaslav won't keep killing finished projects just to harvest tax savings. Now some new asshole can kill projects after a single successful season!

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2 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

I guess I’m a Netflix employee now…

I can only imagine what game production is like now under a Netflix shop. 

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4 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

How are the apps going to be handled? Will Netflix absorb everything on Max into their app or allow Max to stay a standalone app?

We are seeing this with Disney and Hulu. They are going to combine into one next year. If you have both (we do), all of Hulu's content is already being shown in Disney's app. 

So much to unfold here. HBO's content dwarfs Netflix's to me, especially all of their original shows dating back almost 30 years,.

Per Netflix, for now, 2 separate app and 2 separate fees. Until the acquisition is signed, sealed and delivered, which could take a year or longer.

It took quite a while for Disney to start integrating the Hulu stuff into their app and then merging them next year. 

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6 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

Guess its better than David Ellison buying them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce91x2jm5pjo

 

6 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Certainly better if you enjoy not having movies in theaters and paying Netflix $80 a month.

 

4 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

Look how Paramount is getting gutted

While I'd prefer the merger didn't happen at all this is absolutely better than Paramount and David Ellison getting WBD.

This isn't over yet. Ellison was already in DC lobbying Trump to perhaps block the merger.

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4 minutes ago, C-Man said:

While I'd prefer the merger didn't happen at all this is absolutely better than Paramount and David Ellison getting WBD.

This isn't over yet. Ellison was already in DC lobbying Trump to perhaps block the merger.

I'm not sure I agree with that, although I agree that neither is a great outcome.

For the average consumer, this is probably going to be a great deal. The average consumer doesn't care about craft or quality or experience. The average consumer cares about convenience. Sit on couch, turn on screen, screen output shiny content, scroll on smaller screen. The end. This deal will *without question* result in more of that.

There is a smaller set of consumers that cares about both the quality of movies and the quality of the method by which movies are consumed. This deal is certainly a disaster for the latter, and probably very bad for the former.

 

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