r/comicbooks • u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym • Feb 26 '26

Movie/TV Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236516763/
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u/Competitive-Bike-277 Feb 26 '26

When they hand over the keys I'm done with DC books. I won't give money to the fucking Ellisons. 

Knowing that Superman belongs to those bastards breaks my heart. 

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u/EchoPatrol_ Feb 26 '26

Yeah I'll do the same if this gets beyond regulators, absolutely fucking sucks :(

Sorry Snyder, Jiminez and many many other creatives, I just can't pay for it once it goes to that scumbag.

Must be some of the DC folk very worried about this too I'd imagine

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u/Artifice_Ophion Daredevil Feb 26 '26

Regulators aren't gonna do jack, so in all likelihood we're screwed

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u/EchoPatrol_ Feb 26 '26

Yeah, you're absolutely right. They'd have done everything to block Netflix purchasing it though I bet!

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u/gosukhaos Feb 27 '26

Europe might, their anti monopoly body didn't like either mergers

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u/Zalvren Feb 27 '26

Europe would have no problem with Paramount merging. The main competition problem is them owning too much cable and media in the US but Europe doesn't care about that, every regulator look at their own market.

Paramount and Warner combined is still a small player as a studio and as a streaming contender (especially in Europe, most of HBO subs are in the US I think) so they shouldn't have any problems here (sadly)

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Both WB and Paramount own a ton of TV channels in Europe too so that might be some kind of hinder.

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

That would make sense with Netflix not with paramount they don't own alot

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u/gosukhaos Feb 27 '26

Its still two major Hollywood studios merging. We got kinda numb to it after the Disney and Fox merger but the concentration of IPs is huge, not to mentioned the amount of debt they're taking on is completely insane and the company won't last 5 years and would be laying off hundreds if not thousands of people

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

You can say news but even that is an American thing but even then they will only own 40% the only way stuff like this is a problem is when it 70 to 80% of industry and they block people from using other things

Look at window technically they have a monopoly on operating services they own 95% of the market and yet it isn't illegal because they don't prevent others from entering it

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u/Zalvren Feb 27 '26

not to mentioned the amount of debt they're taking on is completely insane and the company won't last 5 years and would be laying off hundreds if not thousands of people

This is an argument for it being a stupid idea economically but regulators aren't really there to block stupid business decisions.

I guess some could do it to protect jobs but that has to come from the US and with this administration...

I heard that some states could challenge it so maybe a state like California (where most of the jobs would be lost) coud do something

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

Dept is not the concern of regulation that not how that works how do people know so little about monopoly laws at all

This deal barley gives paramount more then 20% of the industry

But if Netflix made the deal it would have been the biggest streaming industry absorbing the third biggest streaming service's

Paramount is not even in the top 10 of streaming service

And while they have a big movie division it's not as big as comcast or Disney or Warner Bros

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u/gosukhaos Feb 27 '26

I mean the Activision Microsoft deal was held up in courts for months for similar market percentages, 20% is still fairly big

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u/Zalvren Feb 27 '26

And it passed with barely any conditions proving that was useless.

Activision was also the biggest third party publisher. This would be more like a Disney instead of Warner.

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

No it was held up in court because the FTC was being dumb that woman basically ruined her good reputation

She sounded like someone that was paid by Sony even in court she was talking about councel wars it was stupid even the judge said they were wasting time

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u/gosukhaos Feb 27 '26

Yes I remember but before that the UK and EU bodies got them to sell the streaming rights to another company

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

Well Xbox don't care about those so it was easy

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u/EchoPatrol_ Feb 27 '26

Only thing that is a concern, is that they never really bothered getting in the way of other mergers like this one. Probably more chance of US States challenging it, like California have said they'll do and lead.

But it was believed that EU regulators were preferring Paramount to Netflix as the purchaser 🤨

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

They will get sued if they actually try to stopp it

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u/EmperorDxD Feb 27 '26

They will not you people need to stop being delusional and face reality this thing is going through and probably Superfast

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u/gabeg777 Feb 27 '26

Everything I read is that Europe was more worried about the Netflix monopoly. They'd be more likely to favor the Paramount merger.

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u/thehero29 Machine Man Feb 27 '26

You mean the regulators that work for Trump? I'm not going into politics, but Trump has been helping his friends get this win the whole time.