re: Netflix Has Won the Bidding War for WBD. Paramount launches hostile takeover

Okay? You can’t afford $12 for a ticket?

I still believe in the next ten years the gatekeepers will be gone thanks to AI. It still has a ways to go, but you will see talented creators be able to produce quality movies with a, comparatively, miniscule budget.

I dont know what that looks like, but the days of Hollywood execs being the gatekeepers are fading fast. That is why this consolidation doesn't overly concern me.

This will cause more and more price hikes for Netflix too. But this is also going to go thru a grueling regulatory process. It's still possible the Trump administration blocks this

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You can’t afford $12 for a ticket?

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It's $15 and some change for a matinee ticket and yes, I can afford it. However, I don't want to pay that much for a movie ticket.

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This argument never fails to show just how unintelligent it is. People say this shite all the time but NEVER factor in the prices to rent the new movies that hit streaming cost to rent. It’s easily $20 if not more if it’s being rented. Then if it’s just straight up released, most everyone pays damn near $20 for every streaming service anyway unless you pay for the cheaper Ad options

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This argument shows who here has a family and who does not. Yeah. It costs $20 to rent a movie on VOD. But you know how much it costs to take a family of four out to see that same movie in the theater? Three times that amount. And that's not even factoring in the price of popcorn, candy, and drinks.

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I remember when a ticket to go watch the midnight showing of The Dark Knight cost $7.50 and concessions were reasonably priced. It now costs twice that amount just to purchase a ticket to see a matinee showing.

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The Dark Knight was almost 20 years ago, of course ticket prices have gone up. I don't know what the matinee prices are, I'm sure cheaper, but my regular movie tickets are only $11 for a regular showing and that's with reclining seats. They have a movie club membership that is $9 a month and you get a free ticket per month that carries over if you don't use it and 20% off concessions. A couple dollars more for something 20 years later isn't bad at all.

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For me, the concern is not the Supermans that'll still get a window. What about mid budget films? Or horror? We're going to get less content. We have plenty of evidence of that. Are we gonna see films like sinners and weapons now? I highly doubt it

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Isn't horror usually one of the most bankable genres theatrically? Smaller budgets make bank pretty easily. I think you'll definitely still get things like Sinners and Weapons. 100%. People will just have the chance to not have to wait six months to watch them if they don't want to pay out the arse to go to theaters.

Sure, you may lose some "mid budget" type movies, but only from theaters. You'll still be able to watch those on streaming any time you want. Hell, I'd almost argue that this could possibly result in more mid-budget type movies since studios won't be sinking tons of costs into theatrical releases (or at least not as much money because they expect lower returns on theatrical runs), so they'll have more money to spend on smaller type movies to generate views.

And for me, a movie like Weapons isn't one that I ever felt the need to see in theaters at all. Sinners either, although that one seemed to be more made for theaters at least. I was perfectly happy watching those at home, and wished I could've seen them sooner. And now I likely will be able to. That's not a bad thing, at least for me personally.

Just my $0.02.

Do you think we're getting as much content from Fox now as we did before Disney bought them?

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But you know how much it costs to take a family of four out to see that same movie in the theater?

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This simply isn’t true. I have a family of four and it does not take this much money to take them to the movies. Popcorn, drinks and candy omg the horror!! $70 for a good time with a family at the movies that happens every three months or more.

But you’ll plop all of your asses at home and not think twice about forking out $25 to Netflix EVERY month for a library of media that hardly ever changes or adds new things.

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creative minds to produce a competitive product at a substantially reduced cost.

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Creative minds aren’t going to use AI. Real creative minds abhor AI and its uses in any part of making art (books, movies, TV, music, etc.)

Creative minds that use AI aren’t actually creative. There’s zero hard work that goes into soulless AI slop. But if that’s the kind of garbage you want to watch, you’ll likely get your wish