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Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix

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It's interesting that despite their being a huge crop of talented, rich, and famous Hollywood actors, writers, producers, and directors, they can't figure out how to make movies and TV and distribute them without going through all these enormous conglomerates that they seem to truly despise.

Just start a studio and put out quality content exactly the way you want it and see if you can do better! It's literally never been easier! If the chucklefucks who run these streaming services can figure it out, some smart filmmakers should be able to put together a workable business plan while Clooney and Pitt rizz up some investors.

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#42

Could there be a worse news regarding where content production is headed? Netflix production is trash and all they care is about metrics like viewers who have watched at least x% of certain content. Cuz if they have, and they accumulate y minutes of viewing, they are unlikely to cancel. This is to the point that they are exclusively making dumbed-down content that can be good background noise while viewers scroll thr…

I prefer Netflix to Oracle-ied Paramount.

I don't want Ellisons to own more than they do. Netflix is boring, Ellisons are evil.

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post #23

Could there be a worse news regarding where content production is headed? Netflix production is trash and all they care is about metrics like viewers who have watched at least x% of certain content. Cuz if they have, and they accumulate y minutes of viewing, they are unlikely to cancel. This is to the point that they are exclusively making dumbed-down content that can be good background noise while viewers scroll thr…

I agree so much with this. And I immediately think about how I have an ongoing Netflix subscription and I have it because after having cancelled due to the complete shit trash they produce, my dad asked me about how to see the Tyson vs Jake Paul fight and it was then that I knew I was cooked. I am a subscriber and my dad didn't like the fight but is happy to have been part of the experience of seeing it. I want to in…

It's so annoying that you totally _have_ to subscribe to this trash product because society is literally forcing you. I know you definitely don't like it but you feel like you have to watch it or you're wasting the money they forced you to spend.

Keep up the good fight and I hope you make it out safe.

Re: Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix

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Could there be a worse news regarding where content production is headed? Netflix production is trash and all they care is about metrics like viewers who have watched at least x% of certain content. Cuz if they have, and they accumulate y minutes of viewing, they are unlikely to cancel. This is to the point that they are exclusively making dumbed-down content that can be good background noise while viewers scroll thr…

HBO cancelled Perry Mason, one of the better done noir detective series. That was kind of the nail in the coffin for me. I still get it free because of my AT&T subscription, but I can't argue that Netflix has really come out with anything really worth watching either - Department Q and Mindhunter are only two that I think of that were decent. I agree that the majority of stuff on streaming services is complete garbag…

HBO died many years ago when ATT fired all the executives that had the taste and vision to make HBO what it was.

They probably had some half decent stuff in the pipeline, but by now, I imagine there is no influence from the HBO of yore.

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post #41

It's interesting that despite their being a huge crop of talented, rich, and famous Hollywood actors, writers, producers, and directors, they can't figure out how to make movies and TV and distribute them without going through all these enormous conglomerates that they seem to truly despise. Just start a studio and put out quality content exactly the way you want it and see if you can do better! It's literally never…

It's a symptom of a culture in crisis- how can you make popular tv shows if there isn't even a popular consensus for what reality is right now

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that the joke there was that Netflix is small and insignificant and HBO is big and buff.

More that Netflix is making things people don't like

> More that Netflix is making things people don't like

And yet, more than 300 million households around the world who pay a subscription every month

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post #30
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HBO is destination television - it's the taste that Netflix lacks and so desperately needs. WB and HBO together have the franchises that Netflix has been trying to build. DC, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings (film + game rights - tv rights), West World, The Matrix, Mad Max, King Kong, all of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. What does Paramount or Hulu have? It's a lot of fluff on the same or even lower…

> Disney? Meh - they've got Andor and that's really it. Disney owns so much content, IP and nostalgia that they don't care much.

Pretty sure their shareholders care. Their market cap is at pre 2019 levels. Their earnings are back to 2014 levels.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/walt-disney/earnings/

Meanwhile, Netflix is up $300B since 2019. And Netflix’s earnings are about to surpass Disney’s:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/netflix/earnings/

And Netflix has 13,000 employees, while Disney has 233,000.

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