Does the world need one less movie studio to make it create an even more towering corporate abomination?
Get ready forBatman v Transformers!
The jokes wrote themselves Wednesday evening as late holiday season news broke: Warner Bros. Thats who these deals are designed fornot the filmmakers, artists, and certainly not the consumers.
The studio even won Best Picture three years ago forNomadland.
Lets just say Disney+ has less use for all-time classics likeAll About Eveor even the Christmas-adjacentDie Hard.
None of these films are likely to bear fruit for Disneys franchises all the time strategy.
They just dont want anyone else to profit off them.
Unfortunately, a side effect of such hoarding is eventually future generations wont remember them either.
In the 21st century, the tools of filmmaking are democratized in a way like never before.
Building up the size of companies ad infinitum makes sense purely in the mindset of constant corporate growth.
