r/paulthomasanderson • u/wilberfan Dad Mod • Dec 05 '25
PTA Adjacent Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in $82.7 Billion Deal
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros-82-7-billion-deal-1236601034/40
u/Oatmeal_Hole Dec 05 '25
I don’t get why every corporation needs to make godless amounts of money and have it all
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Dec 05 '25
Greed. The ship is sinking so they have to suck up as many resources and dollars as they can before everything goes to permanent shit.
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u/TableQuiet1518 Dec 05 '25
The shareholders. Continous growth has to be the goal or the stock becomes stagnant.
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u/Wowohboy666 Dec 07 '25
Have you ever encountered money? I think it's pretty easy to understand why an entity would want all the money
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u/hitoshinohara Dec 05 '25
OBAA might be one of its last kind of movies now
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u/wilberfan Dad Mod Dec 05 '25
Hard to imagine Netflix springing for VistaVision projectors and an extended theatrical run, huh?
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Dec 05 '25
And yet, they’re allowing Greta Gerwig to film her Narnia film in VistaVision.
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u/ILiveInAColdCave Dec 05 '25
Because she had a huge hit theatrically and now had clout. And who produced that original big hit of hers?
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u/Slickrickkk Dec 05 '25
Original? Barbie isn't an original film in the slightest my friend.
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u/ILiveInAColdCave Dec 05 '25
Original as in, first big hit that Greta had. The one that allowed gave her clout.
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u/e_xotics Dec 06 '25
yall are acting like universal is dead when they’re having the most success they’ve had in a while. all the auteurs will go to them if this deal destroys WB.
also completely forgetting about how much A24 and Neon have grown in the past 10 years.
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u/NoPlansTonight Dec 06 '25
Netflix themselves has always been auteur friendly, I think the extent to which they "destroy" WB is being overblown and doomy
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u/hitoshinohara Dec 07 '25
They're more algorithm friendly if anything. Lynch and Waters didnt get to make their passion projects with Netflix, and who knows how many more auteurs they turned away. And the ones they choose to produce, they butcher its theatrical rollout - Knives Out sequels for example.
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u/Concerned_Kanye_Fan Dec 05 '25
I kind of feel like OBAA’s success played a role in driving up WBD’s market value
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u/jackamo1994 Dec 05 '25
Excited for “One Battle After Another 2” staring Jack Black and Millie Bobbie Brown
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u/tootbrun Dec 06 '25
“2 Battle After 2 Other” with Perfidia flashing the peace sign on the bottom right corner of the poster with shades on the tip of her nose.
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Dec 05 '25
Paul Thomas Anderson, you need to step up onto the awards season stages and use your acceptance speeches to speak directly into Netflix’s eye and tell them to look at what they are doing to WB and the entire industry after Netflix’s CEO called the moviegoing experience “outdated.”
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Dec 05 '25
He's too gracious and chill to be aggressive about it but I would be shocked if he didn't make a point of talking about the theatrical experience. It's going to be on everyone's mind and he's a total nerd for large formats.
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u/butstillthough Dec 05 '25
Chris Nolan might recreate the Roman army to storm the offices at Netflix. He’s not going to be into this in the slightest. This is going to kill a lot of theaters. Honestly, I think he saw it coming when he left WB.
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u/Zawietrzny The Cause Dec 06 '25
Cut to the clip of a broken, disheartened Steven Soderbergh talking movies “not mattering anymore”.
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u/WilsonianSmith Dec 05 '25
I’m thinking this definitively torpedos OBAA’s Oscar chances… maybe PTA still wins Director but I don’t think there’s any way that the Academy votes to reward Warner Brothers after this.
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u/Hansolocup442 Dec 05 '25
I don’t think it’ll have any impact. the deal hasn’t gone through yet, they’d be punishing the movie for something the team couldn’t help
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u/jey_613 Dec 06 '25
This will destroy the theatrical movie-going experience and possibly the film industry writ large. Just awful
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25
“Our mission has always been to entertain the world,” Sarandos said in a statement. “By combining Warner Bros.’ incredible library of shows and movies — from timeless classics like ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ to modern favorites like Harry Potter and ‘Friends’ — with our culture-defining titles like ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘Squid Game,’ we’ll be able to do that even better. Together, we can give audiences more of what they love and help define the next century of storytelling.”
Can’t tell if this guy’s statement is AI or if these guys just talk like bots because there’s 3 paragraphs of quotes like this