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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Surely all of these studios buying each other up and becoming megastudios will be good for audiences, right?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Consolidation precedes collapse.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Extremely centralization is like an one-party country. In many ways we already are. 1% vs the rest.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It’s scary how big these megacorps are. You can pick any big name from 40 years ago and see how it’s all part of the same 5 companies now

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        its an illusion mostly. the new WB/Discovery/Paramount monstrosity will be smaller than, say, viacom was at its peak.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It is
      They kill each other off and new companies will rise from the ashes focused on making good products instead of the megacorp zombies who can't get off course to do something interesting

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just means all the smaller ips these individual companies own ultimately get buried for tax writeoffs and such when they merge, only the biggest of shit will be allowed to get being remade and sequelized to death

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, space jam 3 gonna be finna lit

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Couldn't give a toss.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Your mom gave me a toss.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Heckin cool, now we can see Flash meets Sonic and Bugs Bunny meets Frasier

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Seriously, though. A Roger Rabbit-style mashup between the DCEU, Looney Tunes, the Potterverse and Frasier could be kino if it was well written. Which it wouldn't be because Hollywood writers are all useless diversity hires and self-loathing white cucks, but still

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >uuuuurrr duuuuuuurrrr

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >piling 8 fricking properties together because i am le smarter than movie executives

        you sound like a big talking moron with a small smooth brain.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Paramount Discovery Brotherhood

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, it's fricking over. How could any studio possibly compete against an AI that makes a movie about whatever you want instantly.

    It's OVER

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      How long until that happens? Gotta still be a while right? 10 years?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Inside of this decade.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Fine by me sounds cool.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        There's no easy answer because the terms aren't properly defined. Within two years you'll be able to type a basic prompt and get decent-"ish" video back running at less than 5 minutes.
        That's obviously not the same thing though. But it sparks the question of how much does it need to do to be that thing and how good does the output need to be to satisfy the demand?
        Within 5 years, the professional film industry will be radically different due to ai though.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          ice cold, years old take, but the coom is gonna be out of control.

          That's not a good thing imo

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          AI is a coomer nerd fantasy that will never truly affect any creative field. No one gives a shit about robotic reflections of what humans have already created.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            indeed. photography will never replace paint.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            The sexual parts of it really feel like something that should go away after you have sex.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            indeed. photography will never replace paint.

            It'll just be the new cars vs bikes and horses, or photography and painting.

            AI will dominate cheap transactional "art" but there will always be demand for the more organic human experience stuff.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              and then we feed the "organic human experience stuff" into the models and generate more of that.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Like what? Genuinely curious how you see AI generated stuff being able to move people like a high quality painting can?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                you seem more qualified to speak to whatever magical quality you're ascribing to paint than i am.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't mean to be stuffy or whatever. Some paintings and movies can be moving, others aren't. I have a hard time seeing AI replacing the moving stuff, but I bet it can do the non moving stuff pretty easily. New Avengers movie? done. Something fresh and new and interesting? I don't know, probably not, or at least I dont think it would feel right

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                This is going to sound cynical, but it really isn't.

                No one has legitimately come up with something "new and moving" for centuries, if not longer. Every example of "new and moving" really is just old stories/imagery, repackaged in such a way so as to allow people to allow themselves to be affected. Avoiding the hurdles and barriers like "i've seen this before, i know where this is going, etc." Its not magic, its not easy, but it isn't new. There's a very small number of universal themes/ideas that will always work, but only if you can "sneak" them in to an increasingly cynical audience.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're 100% right for sure. Would you say AI could sneak those themes in to a movie as well as a person could? I guess narratively why not but

                I'm still on the thread of 100% AI generated movies. "Cortana, make me a Blood Meridian adaptation" and 15 minutes later it's rendered out a brand new movie.

                I don't see that ever really being as good as a man-made movie where a team of people cares about what they're making.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                well, you can always tell the difference between movies that people cared about making and movies people didn't care about making.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No one has legitimately come up with something "new and moving" for centuries
                Pretentious homosexual. Go back.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                the only place I've ever been is here.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >like a high quality painting can
                >There are AI models where you can select a famous artist and then a prompt to create artwork like it came from that person
                >There are robotic chefs with AI models built from all the world's top chefs
                >There are models built off the best authors
                AI training consists of pitting two AI against one another. One trying to replicate the style of an art piece and the other AI going "lolno", until finally the first AI can do it so well that it tricks the second one

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >AI training consists of pitting two AI against one another.
                Classical AI has basically nothing to do with Generative AI.

                not saying that, just saying that "copying" 1% of people isn't meaningful.

                Yeah it's probably just clickbait.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                The conversation is about generative AI

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Im suspicious that it never shows it doing anything but adding pre-made items together. Show me the robot chopping a whole onion with a rotten outer layer

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Uhh horsebros? How we doing?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                We're so back baby

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            mp3s will never replace records or CDs

            fricking moronic butthole

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Those are all just file storage. That's fundamentally different from art generation.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                ... homie we had the exact same conversations about analog vs digital that you're pretending is new to human vs ai

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >difference in data storage capacity
              >difference in kind of “intelligence”
              “AI” is not actual intelligence moron. It’s a computation based on an algorithm. Circuit boards will never create a fricking thing, ever.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Human brains are also algorithmic. How could they not be? They're input > output devices

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >NPC can’t comprehend emergent properties
                Makes sense.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                interact with AI generation content enough and you'll see things you can't call anything but "emergent" properties as well.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >dood the circuit board totally has a mind of its own!
                Nah.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >dood the animo-acids totally has a mind of its own!

                you are a meat computer.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Explain to me right now why a carbon-based processor can have emergent properties and a silicon-based processor can't.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Because your brain produces imagination and we have no fricking clue how it works. We know how computer processors work exactly because we fricking designed them, dummy.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Computer processors also have imagination, though much less than an average human-brain does. Consciousness is not exclusively in the domain of carbon-based processing devices. We don't know how consciousness is created, but we know it is an emergent property of calculating-systems.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Computer processors also have imagination
                No they don’t you drooling fricking gooner. Lmao. Touch grass immediately.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >computers will never match humans because we know how computers work and we don't know how humans work

                lmao

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Human brains have emergent properties but ML models can't because... because they're soulless, they just are!

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >dood the animo-acids totally has a mind of its own!

                you are a meat computer.

                Terminally online spergs desperately want the magical AI to give their pathetic lives meaning, I know. But it’s not happening. Humans can create, chatbots cannot.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                ... or just excited about bespoke media generation...

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Humans can create, chatbots cannot.
                cute cope meatbag

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                what does that headline even mean, that's such clickbait

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                how about you read the abstact of that study and then come back here sweetie

                gonna be that guy, being able to copy people isn't really "matching" them. and yeah, 1% of human thinkers is close to a billion people, and we only remember a hundred or so of them.

                hate to be that guy but we are talking about dogshit llm in 2023, when the progress is getting exponentially faster every year

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                How about you post the study next time then and not the clickbait homepage article then wienersmoker

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                gonna be that guy, being able to copy people isn't really "matching" them. and yeah, 1% of human thinkers is close to a billion people, and we only remember a hundred or so of them.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                And the technology will never get better. This is why birds will always be better at flying than mechanical birds.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                not saying that, just saying that "copying" 1% of people isn't meaningful.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                AI Scum and their sympathizers will all be purged in the future.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >NOOOOOO AI BAD! I NEED TO WAGEKEK BECAUSE..... I'M NOTHING WITHOUT MY JOB!
                can't wait for the suicide pods companies stocks to skyrocket

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I dont like AI on a deeper level, they could become competition, we dont need that. Anything that can think can revolt.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                this why do people really want super AI machines thinking for themselves?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Anything that can think can revolt
                Revolutions get squashed everyday. Real life isn't Terminator btw

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >someone needs to prepare all the dough
                >someone needs to chop all the vegetables, shred all the cheese, etc.
                >someone needs to load all that shit in their little hoppers

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >someone
                The machine

                >any one of a thousand parts breaks or fails in anyway the whole thing stops working
                lol can't wait for people to go bankrupt maintaining this shit

                >bankrupt
                how?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                bruh the machine just takes prepared ingredients and makes them pizza. easy to go bankrupt if something takes longer than a few hours to fix. something like that would need every part checked each day.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah man it's called having a maintenance person on duty, just like every other place that has machines. With no other staff that's all there really is. A boss/owner, service tech and a food app to handle the orders.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                i don't think you understand how delicate and complicated robotics are.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm sure the companies and their investors are taking all of that into account. The world is filled with robotics already, going back decades

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                the response to that video is the 3 year old chink making fried rice. how much does a chink toddler cost vs how much does that machine cost.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                The chink in your scenario can only work 8hr shifts, maybe the odd double shift and he can call in sick. The machine can work 24/7 and your cashier is a food delivery app on someone's phone

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                the point is you've built a machine capable of doing what a 3 year old human can, as long as its supervised by an adult human to prep all the ingredients. who could just make the stir-fry himself.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's a weak ass point. Have you ever supervised staff before or ran I business? Sounds like you're worried about McDonalds firing you

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >and a food app to handle the orders.
                you have to be 18 to post here kiddo

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're not using that phrase correctly, newbie

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >any one of a thousand parts breaks or fails in anyway the whole thing stops working
                lol can't wait for people to go bankrupt maintaining this shit

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah man it's called having a maintenance person on duty, just like every other place that has machines. With no other staff that's all there really is. A boss/owner, service tech and a food app to handle the orders.

                It will be a long time before robots replace people when it comes to cooking. Call me when they can cook something entirely from scratch with ingredients that still need prepping. Not only that, have you seen those homies in the kitchens of dominos and shit? They make things at 5x the speed of these machines

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Call me when
                I'm not sure you even understand your own argument. There are different levels of restauranting and there a different companies for entering each of those spaces. I don't know why you're obsessed with prepwork which is the lowliest and most robotic job in the kitchen. There are machines for doing prepwork
                > dominos
                >They make things at 5x the speed of these machines
                You're watching promo videos.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm bearish on timelines for AI generated movies, but I'm not enough of a brainlet to claim human computation is mathematically different from silicon computation.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Within two years you'll be able to type a basic prompt and get decent-"ish" video back running at less than 5 minutes.

          ... homie that happened months ago

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            That video isn't decent. That video is kind of viewable, prone to ai frickups in interpreting shit, and less than 5 seconds long.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          You act like this is anything new. Why would you want to watch something you created? All the indie shit in games and comics, people still buy AAA games and real comics/manga

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            in playing around with AI generation, from all the way back to AI dungeon and stable diffusion, AI consistently has the ability to surprise with the directions it takes with pure literal interpretations of a prompt.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Oh wow, ALL the way back then? You're a real "oldgay" in the gen AI game!

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                ai dungeon was like five years ago bruh. that's like half a century in any other medium. and shit, ai dungeon was gpt2?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        2 more years, unironically. digital luddites have no idea what's coming

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          oh so two more weeks?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >AI becomes conscious by 2029

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >the digital world makes paper books and document almost completely obsolete
          >autonomous vehicles now dominate our roads
          >2019
          kek this was written by high hopes this was made by a clueless I FRICKING LOVE SCIENCE fanboy I am guessing.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >can't read a timeline chart
            >thinks his opinion matters
            kek

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >2019 - 2029
              >none of this shit is even close to happening yet
              go back to the r/Ifrickinglovescience subreddit bro kek

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                half of it's already happened. the "deep relationship" thing is happening. don't see carbon nanotube lattice computing happening, quantum computing is what everyone is working on. and the total computing power is kinda meaningless, and self-driving cars will probably never be a serious thing.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >self-driving cars will probably never be a serious thing.
                >t. increasingly nervous truck driver

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                its because a self-driving car can't hold an insurance policy. insurance companies basically run how the roads work.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >can't hold an insurance policy
                yes, for now. not true in 2 more years. seethe and cope luddite

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                the insurance companies would be the "luddites" in the equation, my ESL chum. they will never consider a computer to be the holder of an insurance policy, only a person. being able to isolate blame/responsibility to individual (human) drivers is something that is not possible with auto-drive.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >hire Black folk to sit in car and do nothing for $1/h
                what's your next cope

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >okay it will cost 500,000k a year to insure this

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                but self-driving cars are 6x safer tho? did you speedread my screenshot?

                https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24006712/waymo-driverless-million-mile-safety-compare-human

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                you're not understanding, possibly intentionally. If the operator, policy holder, etc, is completely incompetent and can do nothing but accept responsibility for the accident, then the premiums would be astronomical. Increasing the skill/ability of the operator reduces the premiums and the balancing point between the pay of the operator and the premiums is... current truck drivers.

                so you've spent obscene amounts of money to automate your trucks, and still need to pay a guy the same amount to do nothing in them, and an additional workforce to maintain them. Or you could hyper-train one person to be able to service every aspect of a self-driving truck, who can also manually drive a truck, etc. either way this all translates to spending fricktons of money for no actual benefit, thanks to insurance companies.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                AI cucks don’t have functioning brains. They think circuit boards have fricking imaginations lmao.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you're not understanding, possibly intentionally. If the operator, policy holder, etc, is completely incompetent and can do nothing but accept responsibility for the accident, then the premiums would be astronomical.
                you're not understanding, possibly intentionally, that "driver doing nothing" make the whole thing a lot safer, so the premium should decrease not increase

                How about you post the study next time then and not the clickbait homepage article then wienersmoker

                how about you come back here once you are 18

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                read the entire post you dumb monkey

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                i read it, a lot of cope because self-driving in 2023 is still barely usable. we are talking about 2029 when none of your assumptions will be valid anymore

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >insurance companies will cease to exist by 2029
                nah. they're going to always be the main roadblock here.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                take your meds schizo

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                i accept your concession.

                That's a weak ass point. Have you ever supervised staff before or ran I business? Sounds like you're worried about McDonalds firing you

                i've done both. its clearly you who has no experience with... anything.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >wagecuck too braindead to understand that 2024-2029 will have 10x progress of 2019-2024
                ngmi

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                let's also ignore that those "predictions" were made between 1990 and 2005

                trust the science sisters

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Most of that stuff has happened though. Everyone I see has some sort of smart watch, especially boomers. All modern appliances have some sort of computer on them that connects to the Internet, all new makes of car have some sort of driving assist, neets are falling in love with ML waifus, AI art is readily avilable and if you ever come across a tourist they whip out their phone to translate. The one thing that's wrongis the nanotube stuff, because nanotubes have always been a meme.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                let's also ignore that those "predictions" were made between 1990 and 2005

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Fricking kek post more funny infographics

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            sure

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        What's over?

        The current estimate is within 1 year's time until the first release.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          doesn't even look like him

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because movie viewers are moronic and don't know how to make good movies. If they did, they would already be making them. All you're going to get is a flood of shitty "Goku vs. Thanos" animations.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        shane carruth is the closest example of "regular person trying to make movies," and it just about fricking killed him every time he's done it.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Just wait until I get started. You'll regret ever posting this.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >AI that makes a movie about whatever you want instantly
      Whatever I want?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        yes you can make the gayest thing ever

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wohoho Hahahaha

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Hey we're both failing. Let's link up!

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >wb merging AGAIN
    lmao, how many mergers can one company sustain?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Discovery is the main moneymaker, these aren’t mergers as much as buyouts.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    PLEASE RETCON NUTREK, ZASLEV. YOU CAN REDEEM YOURSELF.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Whoever acquires Paramount will do away with NuTrek. Why keep a money pit open? It's only there now to make Paramount look like it has a catalogue

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The good thing about Trek is it’s already established there are infinite timelines. So everything made for Paramount+ can easily be retconned away.

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe should’ve bought spec scripts from competent white guys instead of all the turbohomosexual woke slop they’ve been churning out.

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd rather Apple buy Paramount

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Apple is buying Disney though.
      >The year is 2030
      >90% of media is produced by 3 tech conglomerates: Amazon/Warner/Paramount, Apple/Disney, and Microsoft/Sony/Comcast

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        lmao no they aren't. that's bullshit disney keeps having its shills float. only discovery is dumb enough to try to buy hollywood studios right now.

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Still won't pay for anything.

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can't wait to watch Star Trek: Discovery on the all-new HBO-Max-Discovery-Paramount+ app!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      More like you watch first 10 minutes of an episode before the app crashes. The Max app is horribly coded. Now try making it run 10k hours of Paramount content.

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Everything is all the same anyway, what's the difference? Slop is slop is slop.

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >merge
    paramount is conning them
    reminder that wb was cheated out of tens of millions in their south park deal and still have active litigation against them
    get paramount's properties in the fire sale, zaslav

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    SO IT HAPPENED AGAIN

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm okay with corporations merging if it means we can have less streaming services again.

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Warnerbros.... how do we recover?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Warnerbros
      >Warner Bros

      Underrated.

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Amazon butt fricks Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    >Disney swallows 20th Century Fox whole and turns it into a hollow shell
    >Apple and Netflix will probably merge with some random conglomerate, with or without Universal involved
    >Sony/Columbia is doing who knows what with who knows who, might be cannibalized by the house of mouse in the near future
    Anons, how does it feel to witness the heat death of Hollywood?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ambivalent because I want a screenwriting career, but I don’t necessarily want to work with any of these conglomerate homosexuals either. We need a new Roger Corman or Harvey Weinstein to step up and help rekindle independent cinema.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        A24 is kickstarting the new new hollywood

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          How so?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            a24 and blumhouse are doing what hollywood should've done, lots of small to mid budget releases tailored to specific demographics. the new new hollywood will never be as large as current or old hollywood, but it'll exist.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >lots of small to mid budget releases tailored to specific demographics
              I mean every studio caters to various demographics and there are loads of small budge movies. How is A24 any different?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                they aren't going for mass appeal, which is a dead business model.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Again, that's nothing new. a24gays just suck them off no matter what like they invented movie making

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                no one is saying its new, the point is hollywood abandoned small/mid-budget because they thought spectacle was the only thing no one could compete with. which is blowing up in their face. While small/mid-budget is the way forward. Has been for about 15 years now.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                A24 won't replace hollywood though, since one is simply a studio and the other is an entire industry. Users will just ping pong between streaming platforms and get whichever ones give them the most bang for their buck. We've returned to the days of cable packages, so really history is just repeating itself

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                anon... hollywood is collapsing. I don't know how you haven't noticed this. You asked how a24 was kickstarting new new hollywood, i told you. its not going to be the only studio (as there's already multiple operating on the new new hollywood models) but current hollywood is dead.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >We've returned to the days of cable packages, so really history is just repeating itself
                Disney and Paramount are already experimenting with bundles; i.e. carving off pieces of their catalogs to sell back to you. If Hulu fully absorbs Disney, there’s no way they won’t splinter off content into $10 packages based off user interest. Warner Brothers Paramount will be the same. In short, it will be cable packages but more individualized.
                >I like Marvel and Pixar, but could do without the nature documentaries
                >Is there a way I can pay $5 just for Nickelodeon?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                A24 won't replace hollywood though, since one is simply a studio and the other is an entire industry. Users will just ping pong between streaming platforms and get whichever ones give them the most bang for their buck. We've returned to the days of cable packages, so really history is just repeating itself

                proposing streaming bundles is just a last ditch desperation approach. it "worked" with cable because cable was quickly established as superior to air broadcast. since there are countless other options, there's no sane reason to pay for a "streaming bundle." Literally no one is subscribed to every platform now, trying to fractionalize the market further into isolated bundles is just nonsense.

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous
  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    So Star Trek cannot possibly be managed any worse then what Paramount did, right? Right?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >star trek meets duck dynasty

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      i'd rather have zaslav handling it than apple or whoever

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      i think paramount is on par with netflix and amazon regarding writing quality and diversity hires. HBO and Warner still manage to churn out watchable content, despite noticeable downgrades in recent years.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >HBO and Warner still manage to churn out watchable content
        Ok pajeet.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          compared to amazon and netflix? yes.

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    How. WB is mass debt. So much get Zaslav is doing tax fraud with movie right offs. There’s a 60% chance WB will go bankrupt next year. How they going to buy Paramount?

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Based, we need more consolidation in the industry

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    WB getting China bailout money?

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Paramount are idiots. WB’s debt almost killed AT&T and Discovery.

    Now Paramount will die from WB’s debt unless they can pass the company to someone else.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >WB’s debt almost killed AT&T
      Nono, AT&T got rid of WB as soon as possible because the practice of calling expenses assets and leveraging them is what worldcom did, and worldcom got in a huge amount of trouble for doing that.

      then dicovery gutted WB to try to get them out of debt.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Paramount just recently merged with Showtime. They're building quite the portfolio

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If the FTC regretted allowing Disney to buy Fox, why would they allow Paramount and Warner to merge?

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pity for Paramount.
    Oh well.

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do any of these own Terminator

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      disney owns terminator now

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      James Cameron and Skydance

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why don't they try releasing something that isn't dog crap?

  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    the best agar.io adaptation so far.

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >two shit tier companies merging
    Yaaaay

  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Agreeing to a merger
    Paramount must be dumb or have some corrupt people taking bribes because this will just make a mega indebted company about to pop. And that means universal will swoop in to buy the fricking mess that is Paramount Warner Discovery (aka Puny White Dick) just to dab on Disney and turn their theme parks into a force to be reckoned with.

    I don’t think this is going to happen though. Today after this news, the black dude who owns the weather channel is offering to buy BET for 3.5 Billion which is enough for paramount to pay off a portion of their debt

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      universal is owned by comcast. comcast isn't going to "swoop in" and save anything.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >save
        You do realize universal wants to dab on Disney right

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          universal has no desires of its own, its a comcast subsidiary. sony and universal need only sit back and wait for the others to collapse.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Comcast can't own CBS when they already own NBC, due to Federal regulations of the broadcast networks. So if they buy Paramount, they will only buy parts of it, and have to sell of the rest. With WBD, they will buy all of Paramount and might only offload BET to a willing buyer to save some cash, but not because of Fed regulations.

  33. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's interesting is that the two leading suiters for Paramount are both spin-off's of AT&T. As a third generation shareholder; ma bell is the gift that keeps on giving.

  34. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    finally my Buffy/Star Trek: Voyager crossover fanfic will be canon

  35. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Poop and pee linked up?

  36. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >one massively debt-ridden company barely breaking even merging with another massively debt-ridden company that's been losing money
    >to "create synergy" and cut long-term costs, the merged company will have to borrow billions of dollars more to payout severance to corporate employees they will layoff
    >Feds expected to jack up interest rate more in 2024

    Yup, this is a great idea.

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