Cinema United, the trade org for exhibition, has made public its remarks about the pending Netflix–Warner Bros merger to the Senate antitrust subcommittee, saying, “If Netflix succeeds in acquiring Warner Bros., the results will be economically and culturally catastrophic: fewer theatres, shorter windows, less revenue, fewer jobs across the national and global entertainment industry, and […]
Theater owners should be suing using the Paramount precedent to prevent studios from owning tv channels and movie theaters. Then maybe they’d have content to show that doesn’t leave theaters after five days or less.
Of course with the current court system it would probably just be an ignored precedent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
Unfortunately, that law was overturned.
What a farce.