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Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $72B deal
Fox Business ^ | 12/5/2025 | Daniella Genovese

Posted on 12/05/2025 5:57:22 AM PST by T.B. Yoits

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Netflix really doesn't have a choice - they're a distributor who ran out of vendors' products to distribute so now they need to buy the copyrighted material in order rehash them without violating copyrights.

Expect to see a lot more recycled garbage in the next few years.

1 posted on 12/05/2025 5:57:22 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Warner Brothers is most definitely not worth $72 billion. All the old studios are going down the toilet and will be worth even less 5 years from now than they are now. They are losing value faster than a new car that is driven off the lot.


2 posted on 12/05/2025 5:59:48 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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The streaming evolution is causing change on a scale unthinkable only a few years back. All the old providers are trying mightily to prevail in the new market.

Discovery could not. Organizationally it could not attract enough viewers to survive.


3 posted on 12/05/2025 6:03:56 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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We’re going in the wrong direction. Woke Netflix needs to go under, not grow.


4 posted on 12/05/2025 6:05:39 AM PST by Windcatcher
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5 posted on 12/05/2025 6:06:49 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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6 posted on 12/05/2025 6:07:53 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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7 posted on 12/05/2025 6:08:12 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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8 posted on 12/05/2025 6:08:35 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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This will likely be rejected by the US, EU, and other authorities. No way it will even pass. It’s part of a pressure by Reed Hastings and the rest of the crew to buy an entire studio, empty its library, and destroy it while pushing new X-rated material not in the cinema but on their service.

This is to raise the stock price of Netflix, but it will not even clear any antitrust offices. This isn’t Biden when he let Bezos take over MGM. You’re dealing with a tougher FTC and FCC.

The whole point is to move movies solely to Netflix on Netflix films on their service, skip the cinema. You dry the library of characters and use it to promote your adult entertainment.


9 posted on 12/05/2025 6:09:13 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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Don’t know if anybody can mess up the DC comic heroes worse, but I’m sure Netflix will give it their best shot.


10 posted on 12/05/2025 6:09:25 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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11 posted on 12/05/2025 6:09:26 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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12 posted on 12/05/2025 6:09:50 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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13 posted on 12/05/2025 6:10:36 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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It’s funny...the consolidation of these companies will end up with a few large operators. Just like the cable industry that was regulated to death in the mid 1990s.

Everything old is new again.


14 posted on 12/05/2025 6:12:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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15 posted on 12/05/2025 6:12:14 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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16 posted on 12/05/2025 6:14:13 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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17 posted on 12/05/2025 6:16:13 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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I guess since Netflix is buying up warner bros, I should keep my 300 dvds instead of having to pay $3.99- 9.99 to watch old movies.


18 posted on 12/05/2025 6:16:15 AM PST by Ikeon (Kill me, and I'll become more powerful than you could ever imagine. )
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19 posted on 12/05/2025 6:17:59 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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20 posted on 12/05/2025 6:18:38 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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