Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

if you can name 3 of these dipshits I will pay u $1 million

if shapiro runs his 2028 campaign fighting the last war then he will lose pretty handily

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Genuinely depressed though about the fate of TCM. "It's still old movies, we have titles as old as 1998!"

He's saying this while this year alone gave many sold out screens playing Frankenstein and Wake Up Dead Man.

But hey, what do I know, I'm a former cinema employee who freelances for a living and not a billionaire. 🤷‍♀️

👏🏼 Theatrical 👏🏼 windows 👏🏼 are 👏🏼 already 👏🏼 too 👏🏼 short. 👏🏼

(Haven’t done a clap-clap-clap in a while. This called for it.)

There's nothing about this news that you can try to spin positively. Not even an "at least it wasn't the Ellisons" will move me.

“Movies are too long” yeah and I’m freaking out about this, apparently.

They’re trying to make us babies who watch Cocomelon in theaters and you’re NOT freaking out??

There are no good corporate mergers in the world of film. Warner Bros/AOL, DreamWorks/Paramount, Disney/20th Century Fox, Paramounts/Skydance, they create fewer jobs, ensure fewer movies get made, and offer fewer choices for audiences. There's no way Netflix/WB doesn't continue this trend.

I hate that this shitty world rewards terrible people for doing absolutely awful bullshit

Questions I have about the Netflix/WBD deal

* Is TCM part of this acquisition? Zaslav was originally planning to include it in the studio/streaming half of the company. I've reached out to Netflix to see if that's still the plan

* How is the WBD debt going to be allocated at the time of the split?

“Consumer friendly” is just Ted’s way of saying that he wants people to subscribe to his services and avoid giving theaters a significant piece of the pie. Absolute garbage that he’s trying to spin as a positive for anyone but Netflix.

For what it's worth, many of these screenings took place at the Lightbox's biggest theater, which holds 523 seats. Each movie ticket here, owing to the fact the film was shown on 35mm, was $15 (if you're a TIFF member). A non-member ticket would cost $20.

You can do the math right there.

Frankenstein was the #1 release in Kansas City’s Screenland Armour theater all year, bigger than even the blockbusters they showed, showing that it would have done well with more theaters around the city.

I didn't even love Frankenstein, but I figure it's easily one of the best films for this argument to be made with because of the amount of anticipation that trailed it before its eventual release on Netflix.

Here's another "consumer-friendly" suggestion: commitment to physical media.

Keep in mind that Frankenstein completely sold out screenings at the TIFF Lightbox and its few IMAX screenings were often full.

What isn't consumer-friendly is relegating your most anticipated movie's release to few theaters in a single city, especially something as high profile as Frankenstein.

It's funny how in the same year where Sean Baker made an impassioned plea at the Oscars to preserve the theatrical experience, Netflix, the big enemy of both theatrical experience and film ownership, acquires one of the few remaining studios committed to such. Dark days ahead.

Extremely glad that we're in a world that celebrates monopolies and billionaires are the ones who are in control of the media we love deeply.

Jesus Christ.

If you want forever copies of your favorite Warners, buy your physicals soon!

A perfect sign of how fucked Hollywood is: Warner Bros. has one of its most successful years -- in terms of quality and box office success -- in a while, and that all happens while its owner sells it to the avatar of devaluing the theatrical experience.

It’s hard to not see the Netflix/WB news as a sort of doomsday scenario. The constant mergers and large scale absorptions of brands might be good for business, in theory, but they are bad for art; they are bad for creators; they are bad for preservation. Which makes it bad for us.

More than likely their president will be involved. President of all directors Christopher Nolan. Which means Netflix has to deal with the most bitter one that got away for WB. Love it.

A lot of the people bemoaning Netflix's possible acquisition of WB are ignoring the fact that if WB goes to Paramount, it will be Disney buying Fox all over again--WB will become a "label" within Paramount and then simply disappear. Ellison hasn't shown he can run one studio. Don't give him two. >

Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

I think that it's very much intentional, even considering the fact that writer Dan O'Bannon conceived the chestburster through his experience with Crohn's.

okay so where is my money

Terrible news. One of the very best ever to do it.

I think Jim Jarmusch is the only person who's said anything particularly meaningful about not really gelling with auteur theory.

every time you see someone go "I oppose auteur theory because it justifies artistic assholes" you should understand you are talking to someone who is about as reliable as a flat earther.

there is literally nothing in auteur theory about that.

at all