Kyle Buchanan

That scratches the surface.

Yeah.

Warner Brothers is one of Hollywood's crown jewels.

It's been around over 100 years.

It was founded in Hollywood's golden age.

It's made movies from Casablanca to Batman.

You know, I was on that back lot the other day, and you're walking past film and TV history wherever you go.

It's run by a guy named David Zasloff, who came over when Warner Brothers merged with Discovery.

And it's been a little bit of a rocky road since that merger.

Well, you know, Discovery has a lot of flailing television channels at this point, a lot of cable channels, which includes CNN, that they're trying to get rid of in some fashion.

So there's been an expectation that Warner Brothers Discovery would be up for sale or broken up into parts.

Yes.

Greed is good, and greed is never-ending.

It is utterly rapacious, and these conglomerates that are already so gigantic show no signs of slowing their appetite.

There's another way to look at it, too, and it's perhaps a less charitable one.

Netflix is trying to take a competitor off of the board.

That competitor is not Warner Brothers.

That competitor is movie theaters.

There is a lot of hand-wringing in the business this week about what the loss of Warner Brothers might do for the already somewhat tenuous theatrical exhibition market.

Fewer movies would come out.