Who didn’t feel nauseous on Friday when Netflix announced an industry-exploding deal to acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion ?

Search far and wide on the internet and you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who’s elated that one of the Big Five Hollywood studios has been snapped up by the boneheads responsible for “Red Notice” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

The headlines are apocalyptic.

Aliens Invade Earth, Egypt Plagued By Locusts, Netflix Buys Warner Bros.

Backstage, the peeved players all have different and understandable reasons for their ire.

Chief among them, people who make movies want movies to stay in brick-and-mortar theaters.

“Netflix would be a disaster,” “Avatar” and “Titanic” director James Cameron, a loud proponent of the in-person experience, recently said on

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