> thought I read somewhere paramount is in survival mode

Paramount's multi-year sale process deserves an HBO miniseries. But at this point, it's a de facto LBO platform for the Ellisons.

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sippeangelo 18 hours ago | parent [-]

But who's gonna produce that once Paramount owns HBO?

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WorldMaker 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple TV will buy it from Sony.

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lotsofpulp 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The US has freedom of speech, so anyone who wants to spend money producing a tv show or movie about Paramount’s sale, regardless of HBO’s ownership.

I think it would be quite boring, though

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JumpCrisscross 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> who's gonna produce that once Paramount owns HBO?

Netflix.

If they win, they own HBO. If they lose, they have a beef with Ellison.

(Speaking out of my ass here. But I think there is broad underappreciation of how intensely a lot of Hollywood creatives do not want to work for a rightwinger. I imagine Netflix, Disney and others will have a bit of a bonanza over the coming years of picking up disaffecteds from Paramount et al, even assuming the latter don't wind up in bankruptcy.)

	▲	alephnerd 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Don't sleep on the A24 or NEON model. I think we'll see a boom in independent film production and distribution companies over the next few years, especially with the inevitable dry powder from either deal.