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HOLY SHIT, one texted to his equally flabbergasted agent.
They didnt even venture to reach out.
And they just assume that we would go along with this.
Such deals needed to be extensively amended given the movies shared-custody theatrical/streaming release.
But the Hollywood hand-wringing had already begun.
And its like, Are you kidding me?
Youre changing the whole dynamic.
Its going to screw up everything.
You just screwed up the film business.
We will aggressively pursue economic terms that preserve our business.
We have already commenced an immediate and urgent dialogue with the leadership of Warner on this subject.
Every movie that is not an event movie, youre just not going to go.
But theyre betting on streaming.
Theyre going, We have to model our thing on Netflix because our live business is messed up.
We want to launch our thing.
We want to figure this out and make it work with you.
Instead, they did this.
