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Peter Bart: The Warner War Catches Hollywood By Surprise … Again

Getty The Warner War is only a month or so old with Hollywood fervently trying to compute who will be the true winners or losers. The rhetoric of corporate turf wars always sounds transformative — until it isn’t. Highflying Netflix at this moment has been on a buying spree of scripts and novels.

Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix and Paramount

Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix and Paramount

Credit: Deadline

Key Highlights

  • Viewers hope that its third acts will be more definitive than Hollywood’s power plays.
  • Filmmakers and filmgoers remember when Warners’ Steve Ross a generation ago assembled movies, music, magazines and other media into an entity that was “too big to fail.” It imploded.
  • Related Stories News Warner Bros Discovery Urges Shareholders To Reject Paramount’s Hostile Bid Acquisitions Greg & Ted’s Excellent WBD Adventure With Studio Lot Tour, David Zaslav As Their Guide; Check Out The Photos Hollywood presently fears that the billions waved by Netflix and the Ellisons might translate into fewer jobs, higher subscriber fees and movie theater closings.
  • Further, production may stall while competing regulatory bodies in Washington and Europe play out their bureaucratic rituals.
  • Watch on Deadline Then come incidental questions: Will CNN or CBS News become politicized toys?
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