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Posted by Mgtyalx 2 hours ago

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery(arstechnica.com)
87 points | 86 commentspage 2
b0rtb0rt 1 hour ago|
so does this mean i get paramount plus for free with my hbo?
throw03172019 1 hour ago||
It means they are going to raise prices for both platforms because they can.
fooqux 1 hour ago|||
And then everything else will follow suit. Not that they haven't already been doing just that.
TheOtherHobbes 48 minutes ago||
Plus ads. And biographies of Trump's kids.
2muchcoffeeman 1 hour ago|||
Everybody just stop subscribing and do something else and pirate the shit out of their content.
rylando 1 hour ago|||
Free? I don’t think a monopoly knows the meaning of that word
Hamuko 1 hour ago|||
It means that Paramount Plus is saddled with debt, and HBO is saddled with debt. And that someone needs to pay off that debt.
greyw 1 hour ago||
If it makes them more money
cheesecakegood 1 hour ago||
So they’ve committed to for example releasing 30-32 movies a year for the next five years [1] but after that, no promises. Good thing mergers are famously temporary and we never need to worry about the next 10 years! Oh wait…

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/25/paramount-hollywood-prom...

tech234a 45 minutes ago|
T-Mobile raised a lot of plan prices exactly 5 years after their merger with Sprint.
trebligdivad 1 hour ago||
When do we get Bugs Bunny on the Enterprise ?
wccrawford 1 hour ago|
I'm not even mad. Let's do it. With Marvin the Martian.

They had a Lower Decks cartoon crossover already, so they can't even deny the possibility now.

ReptileMan 55 minutes ago||
Let's hope that the fears of new owners being rightwing are correct so we can finally see The Censored Eleven in their full glory.
Hikikomori 1 hour ago||
Another nail in Americas coffin.
stock_toaster 1 hour ago|
It's yet another oligarchy centralization play. I assume more to come.
smashah 1 hour ago||
How much did the Gulf states pledge towards this?
optimalsolver 1 hour ago|
From what I see on r/stablediffusion, Hollywood has maybe 2 years left, in the optimistic case.
fooqux 1 hour ago||
Even if it gets good enough, you're forgetting about everything else that goes into movie making and distribution. Hollywood will keep their hold on media, they just might use AI to increase profits even higher.
holoduke 32 minutes ago||
But why Hollywood?
john_strinlai 1 hour ago||
i am extremely wary of making any predictions about ai, given what's happened in the last year, but i would put good money on hollywood being around in 2 years. there's much more to the movie industry than slapping some video together.

r/stablediffusion seems to be a bit disconnected from reality, to put it nicely.

foobarian 1 hour ago|||
The vibe I get is like when the Meta VR app store product launched, and there was huge promises and optimism about all the amazing apps and experiences, but when you bought it and actually tried, it was a few juiced up flagship things and a bunch of shovelware.
beanjuiceII 1 hour ago|||
ehhhh i dunno about that. the stuff i've seen from people, and watched looks much better than most crap hollywood puts out anymore
john_strinlai 1 hour ago|||
to reiterate: there is more to the movie industry than putting a video together
platevoltage 22 minutes ago|||
Please post a link to some of this "stuff". I'm begging you.