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3:18p, 12/23/25
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How this will likely all go down over the next few weeks, from Matt Belloni...

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Next moves in World War WBD: Thankfully we're getting the rest of this week off from Warner Bros. sale news, I'm told. So we'll need to wait for the next obvious chess moves: The WBD shareholders, knowing that Paramount's $30 per share offer is not "best and final," will almost certainly reject the latest bid, even with Larry Ellison's personal backing. Then, in January, the Ellisons will up their offer just enough to clearly beat Netflix, even if shareholders accept the higher valuation of the TV networks. Then, Netflix will likely match the offer, and Paramount will have to decide if they'd like to go even higher.

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In reply to schmendeler • 4:34p, 12/24/25
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schmendeler said:
Did CBS shelf their 60 minutes story on CECOT last night because they need to stay on Trump's good side?


No. As you have probably read at this point, the lady running this story lied. Bari Weiss called her on it.

She frankly deserves to be fired and has destroyed her credibility while trying to claim 60 Minutes hurt their credibility by stopping the story.

Whoops.
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In reply to YouBet • 4:37p, 12/24/25
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YouBet said:
schmendeler said:
Did CBS shelf their 60 minutes story on CECOT last night because they need to stay on Trump's good side?


No. As you have probably read at this point, the lady running this story lied. Bari Weiss called her on it.

She frankly deserves to be fired and has destroyed her credibility while trying to claim 60 Minutes hurt their credibility by stopping the story.

Whoops.


What was the lie?
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In reply to schmendeler • 2:39p, 12/25/25
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schmendeler said:
YouBet said:
schmendeler said:
Did CBS shelf their 60 minutes story on CECOT last night because they need to stay on Trump's good side?


No. As you have probably read at this point, the lady running this story lied. Bari Weiss called her on it.

She frankly deserves to be fired and has destroyed her credibility while trying to claim 60 Minutes hurt their credibility by stopping the story.

Whoops.


What was the lie?


She said the administration refused to participate yet the DHS, the White House, and the State Department all gave comments. This is according to Axios and the WSJ.

She lied.
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In reply to YouBet • 3:09p, 12/25/25
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YouBet said:
schmendeler said:
YouBet said:
schmendeler said:
Did CBS shelf their 60 minutes story on CECOT last night because they need to stay on Trump's good side?


No. As you have probably read at this point, the lady running this story lied. Bari Weiss called her on it.

She frankly deserves to be fired and has destroyed her credibility while trying to claim 60 Minutes hurt their credibility by stopping the story.

Whoops.


What was the lie?


She said the administration refused to participate yet the DHS, the White House, and the State Department all gave comments. This is according to Axios and the WSJ.

She lied.


Here is her statement:

I guess it depends on if you think canned statements are the same as "responses to specific questions" or "participating in interviews."
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10:13p, 1/2/26
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https://deadline.com/2025/12/box-office-2026-preview-1236657116/

I'll readily admit that I'm not in the know well enough to know Deadline's credibility, but here's another more recent article continuing to voice my exact concerns about Netflix's trustworthiness when it comes to their claim of respecting a traditional release window and the effect it'll have on theater-going.
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In reply to FL_Ag1998 • 10:17p, 1/2/26
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From a business perspective I can see how Netflix would think it makes sense to kill off the theaters and force more people in to the streaming only world.
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In reply to FL_Ag1998 • 12:50a, 1/3/26
Deadline is probably the most credible outlet as it comes to box office.

Netflix is not wrong when it says that 75+% of box office comes in the first 17 days. Outside of kid movies, after that, it's incredibly diminishing returns.

What they *haven't* really publicized a strategy on, is exactly when they'd move a film to streaming. Is it day 18, or day 31? That makes a difference.
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