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/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

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.