Reeves Weidemann

So David, who had up to that point...

barely been involved in politics at all.

He was not someone who was even really a big donor to politicians prior to 2024.

You know, really became tied to the Trump administration in ways that made people uncomfortable in all kinds of ways.

Then once he took over the studio, and particularly once he started to pursue Warner Brothers, I think people also started to take a closer look at his record at making movies and start to realize, wait a second, a lot of these movies are not very good.

Is this the guy that we actually want running not just one studio, but potentially two of the biggest studios in Hollywood?

I did not get any inklings of hope, I don't think.

And some of that, unfortunately, you know, I think there's a certain realism that people have, you know, consolidation was going to happen.

which we all know the history of that in any business is just things tend to get smaller.

Combined with the politics, the fact that David has catered so much to the Trump administration and whether that's going to continue.

And then thirdly, yeah, his taste and his abilities as an executive.

Like he is now, as one Hollywood person pointed out to me, you know, he kind of went from being a midshipman to being the captain of the Titanic and

Literally, because he now owns the movie Titanic, which was a Paramount movie.

I'm the king of the world!

There's a lot of people kind of talking about, and I heard about this from some big name filmmakers, directors, producers, who are just kind of like, you know what?

Life is short.

I don't want to deal with this guy.

I don't want to deal with Paramount.

They're in bed with the Trump administration.

That is just not what I want to be involved with.