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What people want to see is some kind of commitment that there will still be movies that you go to the movie theatre and see, you go to the cinema.

So that angle has been played up a bit by Paramount, that it was moving away from its traditions.

There's very much a denial that that's what's happening, that taking over the studios, for example, would be about producing more original movie content that could be screened first in movie theatres, that kind of thing.

Mr Sarandos was asked in that interview about the intervention of President Trump for him to sack a Netflix board member.

Well, yes.

You have to remember this whole deal is immensely political.

Paramount Skydance, of course, is run by David Ellison, who's the son of the US billionaire and Republican Party donor Larry Ellison, who's providing funding guarantees for the deal.

At one point, Jared Kushner, who's President Trump's son-in-law, was also involved, though his company has since recused itself.

Now, what we saw here was President Trump taking to Truth Social, his own social media network, calling for Netflix to sack Susan Rice.

Now, she's somebody who is very closely associated with the Obama administration.

She was a diplomat.

So he's called on Netflix to sack her because she's seen as somebody too democratic.

Mr. Sarandos responded to this by saying, look, this is a business deal.

It's not a political deal.

And he said, President Trump, well, he likes to say things on social media.

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