The bombshell news that Netflix is in exclusive talks to buy Warner Bros Discovery is shaking the global film and TV industries.

Former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar is one of the first studio level executives to comment publicly on the pending deal. Fair to say he isn’t a fan.

“If I was tasked with doing so, I could not think of a more effective way to reduce competition in Hollywood than selling WBD to Netflix,” Kilar posted to X as news of the deal broke late last night.

In response to an X post disagreeing with his take, Kilar added: “When I use the phrase competition in Hollywood, I am referring to having a sufficient number of vibrant and robust entities that can and will aggressively compete against each other to produce and distribute films, series, live events and more fo

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