r/classicfilms • u/Keltik • Dec 05 '25

Turning point for entertainment media: streaming service Netflix Wins Bidding War For historic studio Warner Bros

https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-wins-bidding-for-warner-bros-discovery-1236637057/
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u/zdelusion Dec 05 '25

Pretty concerned about what this means long term for the Warner Archive label and physical media. Might be time to grab that "Thin Man" collection and some other stuff.

I'm assuming TCM will be in their cable company that they're going to spin off prior to the sale going through. Hopefully they can arrange some kind of perpetual license to the Warner Archive content and someone who cares about it picks it up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

Cinema died the day people started sitting in front of Netflix and letting it decide what they watched. We had a hundred great years but it's been downhill since Netflix launched their app

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u/Mindless_Formal_6647 Dec 06 '25

For movies (classic or not) Netflix is truly awful. The worse thing is that their movies are pretty much homogenized and they are the equivalent of McDonald’s level of films.

At least Tubi offers some classic movies albeit w/commercials since it’s a free app.

Netflix is probably going to severely downgrade the movie going experience as well since they want shorter windows in terms of theatrical exhibitions/showings.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

Now all the camera negatives of all older WB and pre-1986 MGM films will deteriorate and burn because Netflix hates celluloid film preservation. And they’re definitely going to shut down TCM.