Thats why this regime is blessing it, of course.
Don’t forget the incoming bribes!
Antitrust. How quaint.
I for one thing the merger is a great idea. Why shouldn’t the company famous for cancelling shows after one season merge with the company famous for burying completed movies for a tax write-off?
I hate this deal but I am hoping Harry Potter gets cancelled after one season
Regardless of what JK Rowling is Harry Potter is a international sensation. It’s insane that they’re trying to remake it when it’s what less than 20 years old.
There’s plenty of good IP out there why don’t they make something of that.
It’s not that insane considering the target audience are children and teenagers. People who are 14 years old now weren’t even born yet by the time Deathly Hallows part 2 came out, and I bet they’d rather watch a remake than their parent’s old DVDs.
People who are 14 now need to be told that Harry Potter is just that racist old grandma’s uncool neoliberalism wank.
Teens who are into Harry Potter should be treated the same way we treat teens who are into Atlas Shrugged
Oh no, netflix likes licences to print money just like any other corp.
Maybe, but the combination of backlash against Rowling herself with the fact that it’s being remade so soon, which may create a “this isn’t my Harry Potter” type effect, may mean this isn’t as successful as they’re hoping.
I mean maybe Netflix will add those completed movies.
Look at the writers guild of America pretending they don’t live in a fascist dictatorship where nothing matters but profits. How quaint.
The chances of this getting blocked under antitrust laws is roughly equivalent to me hitting oil in my back garden.
I mean the alternative was paramount buys them…which is worse since the ellisons are pretty far right.
Such a cool timeline where the options are a consolidation merger that eliminates competition and creates an unfair advantage, destroying jobs, enriching the wealthy, or the same thing but with Larry Ellison who will obviously do it with a hard right wing slant (as opposed to the other option just quietly doing that)
To bad the government is fully compromised.
Something me and Disney both agree on is this should be blocked.
But the guy in charge of blocking this merger
Is not going to block this merger.
The only way this gets blocked is to steer it toward the Ellisons instead. Reasonable people can disagree, but to me, that’s even worse.
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This will make them too big to fail. Everyone can RELAX now.
I mean, I get it but the only people bidding on WBD was Skydance (Ellison). The options were Skydance, Disney, a vulture fund, or Netflix. That’s probably why Netflix even decided to bid. Nobody wanted WBD.
Consolidation should have never been allowed, but now that the beast that is Disney exists, there is very little argument that could succeed against the WBD purchase.
ITS SKYDANCE/ and the saudis.
Bring it on! Things must get a lot worse before they’re going to get better.
I wonder if we will at least publicly name the folks who proposed this clearly illegal merger? Just for the record?
