Why do people care about the WB & Paramount merger? truth be told, does this really matter? just about all these networks have been sinking ships for almost 2 decades. Everyone on here has done nothing but complain about BOTH for years. but now suddenly it's different?
>>155567868>Why do people care about the WB & Paramount merger?Why do you care that people care about this?And before you ask, yes I do care.The reason I care is because I find this interesting, largely cause mergers are always interesting if you pay attention. They tend to cause project to either be cancelled or released.
>>155567868because it's against the law, and was stopped multiple times, yet it's happening anywaybut i'm sure more heavily regulating business will make this stop happening..
>>155567943what is against the law?
>>155567996monopolism
>>155567996Monopolies are illegal because they're anti-capitalist. True capitalism can't exist without competition. A monopoly by one corporation is ultimately no different than a monopoly by government. Speaking of governments, the Saudi Arabian government will own about half of this new company. Hope you're excited for Superman to fight for Allah, Camels, and the Muslim way from now on.
It is a symbolic representation of the fact that media really is over. But it would be over regardless of this due to other factors, this just represents a solid dividing line between eras. Hold onto your DVDs and invest in hard drives, kiddos.
>>155567868....parasocialism
>>155568237>>155568197How is two studios joining a monopoly?and why wasn't it a monopoly when Disney bought 20th Century Fox, or WB absorbed New Line Cinema, or Disney bought Miramax, or Columbia and Tri Star combined, etc etc etc
>>155568276>why is only monopoly when glorious Saudi regime takeover American IP and laugh as the west burns, praise be to Allah and 9/11?Fuck off, Akbar.
>>155568256Whatever happened to "gotta have my Batman" whinings? The life and death of an IP was not up to the so called customers after all?
>>155568293didn't answer my question
>>155567868>Why do people care about the WB & Paramount merger?>truth be told, does this really matter?The results of this won't affect me in the slightest, but it's slightly interesting to keep up with because it's been a back-and-forth between big corpos and California state government.
>>155568276>How is two studios joining a monopoly?Before today there were only five major studios, which is already too few. Now there are four. That's just a couple of more mergers away from one company controlling Hollywood completely. Taking steps toward a monopoly is also a violation of anti-trust laws. If you wait until the monopoly has already happened then it's too late.All the other shit you listed should have been illegal too, but our lawmakers are cowards who don't enforce their own laws.Seriously, can you name a single positive thing that came out of any of these mergers? Some great work of cinema or amazing business innovation that would have been impossible otherwise?
>>155568293>>155568237>>155567943DISNEY shill spotted.
>>155568329Seethe
>>155568317Don't be a retard. WB/Paramount is absolutely LOADED with debt that it can't possibly hope to pay, and this merger just adds more debt on. The most likely outcome of this in the long term is that the company goes on sale again and Disney absorbs it within five years, because no other Hollywood studios has the money to do so. If I was a Disney shill I'd be celebrating right now.
>>155568316I can't name a positive thing that has come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years, no matter how many studios there are, so I honestly don't give a shit, especially when we don't need these shithouses to make movies or shows. Anyone can do it now. I DO have a problem with the government forcing its will over commerce while, as you said, they never bothered to before. Almost like they're simply acting on behalf of OTHER studios.
>>155568329kill yourself, Disneyfag.
>>155568352how does a merger add more debt?
if it saves either of them getting absorbed by Disney, I'll take it.
>>155568237Okay so what about Disney, that's the competition now right? Disney vs Nick/CN
>>155568304heck if i know, batman's doing pretty goodhonestly idk if it rly is that bad or if our constant connection to the insides of hollywood've made us maybe a lil' too aware of everything
>>155568353>I can't name a positive thing that has come out of Hollywood in the last 20 yearsAll of the mergers you listed happened in the last 20 years. You basically just isolated Hollywood's merger era and admitted that it all sucks. Wow, almost like mergers are the problem, huh? >they never bothered to before.And they should have. I'm glad they finally got their shit together even if it took them 20 years. Not sure why you want the shit parade to continue. Sounds like you're just afraid to admit this is a bad deal.>Anyone can do it now. Yeah, buddy, audiences will absolutely line up and pay money to watch AI-generated slop that they can generate for free on their phones. You're really smart and you have definitely thought this through.
>>155568370Paramount doesn't actually have the money to pay full price for WB. So they have to go into debt to do it, AND they're assuming WB's mountain of debt once they buy the company.Not a smart plan, but that's what happens when the guy in charge has no real experience with anything and his only qualification is that he's the CEO's son.
Meanwhile Disney quietly puts like 1% of its yearly revenue aside so they can buy WB/Paramount for peanuts when it goes back on sale after a few years of mismanagement.
>>155567868Nostalgia for Time Warner owned cartoons
>>155567868Pettines, Paramount is going to move to the south, taking WB with it, and Hollywood is mad that they are abandoning the sinking ship.Now, what crossovers would you like to see? I think Clarence would get along perfectly with Arnold, although the Eds could provide a challenge for the football head
>>155568620Paramount moving to the South would be retarded. They'd need to open new offices, build new production studios, new backlots, pay to move everything from California to Texas. Production on everything would be halted for months. They'd lose billions. They'd lose infrastructure that's been built up over the better part of a century and would require at least a decade to even approach anything resembling what they had in CA.Moving to Texas purely out of petty spite would be the most mounmentally stupid, suicidal move they could do.So, it's a pretty safe bet that Elison is going to do that by Wednesday.
>>155568620>what crossovers would you like to see? There's not going to be any crossover of Nick and Cartoon Network shows.
>>155568276>and why wasn't it a monopoly when Disney bought 20th Century Foxthat was also illegal
