Hollywood Filmmakers Fearful as Paramount Wins Warner Bros: ‘Different Bidder, Same Anxiety’

As Hollywood grapples with Paramount Skydance’s comeback campaign to win the Warner Bros. Discovery bidding war over Netflix, the general sentiment among creatives, staffers and movie theater owners can be best summed up by one regional exhibitor:

“Different bidder, same anxiety,” the theater exec said. “Maybe we don’t have to deal with Netflix making sudden promises to go back on everything they’ve ever said about shorter theatrical windows, but I think nobody in our business believes that we’re better off with Warner Bros.