Dawn Chmielewski

It also offered investors a $0.25 per share ticking fee for every quarter that this deal goes beyond September and fails to close.

So that, again, demonstrates its ability to get this deal done.

And lastly, billionaire Larry Ellison, whose son David is the CEO of Paramount, is personally backing the deal.

One of the advisors I spoke with said that Netflix really was reluctant to get into a sustained bidding war with one of the world's richest men.

In fact, they said there's no point playing chicken with someone who won't turn the wheel.

About 60 or 70 percent of the time that we spend on streaming services is actually viewing old movies or older TV shows.

So that would be a tool in revenue.

retaining subscribers and keeping them watching.

And Warner Brothers over 100 years has developed this trove of characters that we know from DC superheroes like Superman and Batman to fantasy series like Harry Potter.

It will likely combine the two television networks, CNN, this global, you know, global cable net and CBS broadcaster.

The film was initially expected to bring in about $5 million in its opening weekend.

It exceeded those expectations.

It brought in $7 million, which made it the third highest grossing film of the week.

In the minds of reviewers, the movie has...

has been candidly trashed.

It has a 7% fresh rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

And the critics have said basically this is a hagiography, or in the words of one critic, an insult to hagiography.

It's a very, this very fawning, almost very admiring look at the first lady.

Now, audiences have seemed to have a different reaction.

Those who've gone to see the movie, about 70% of the audience is female.