Iowa AG Brenna Bird is right on all counts. The chokepoint in today's film and tv markets is distribution, not production. California had no problem with Netflix buying WBD. But lefties think Larry Ellison had cooties, so his son David must have cooties by proxy.
Stick it to California.
FYI.
I personally don’t want to see Netflix, Disney, Apple and Amazon achieve a distribution cartel that completely controls the movie and tv industry.
The best way to reduce streaming costs is to not subscribe at all.
There are perfectly great reasons to prevent monopolies.
“Two storied American companies are frozen,” she added. “Warner Bros. cannot confidently green-light a film, upgrade its technology, or sign a long-term contract without knowing whether it will exist as an independent company next year. Paramount cannot execute its plans without a merger either. Employees cannot plan careers. And a movie that does not get made this year may never get made at all. Financing expires, talent moves on, and production slates are abandoned. No court ruling in 2027 can go back and produce the film that was never shot. And no Iowan will ever get to see that movie either.”
How about doing something for streaming services that add commercials and special pricing for anything that is worth a shyt. Then there’s the premium pricing for 50 year old crappy scifi movies that have been free on tv for years.
Hold on, please be quiet….. is that the sound of Steam Escaping I hear?
Protecting CBS affiliates. She also sees Democrats want to give Netflix exclusivity on the Presidential Inauguration.
I have to admit, Tubi and Pluto have enough free streaming (and Brave chops ads out of Tubi nicely) that I have enough television and movie programming for quite sometime.
Lately, if I am waiting for something to process, I hop over for Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Burns and Allen or Columbo.
With AI, I think individual independent studios are the future.