One of the biggest media mergers of late just took hold. WarnerMedia and Discovery have just combined into a new company with Discovery CEO David Zaslov at the helm.
Director Denis Villeneuve is one of many directors who aren’t very happy with newcomer streaming service HBO Max. The “Dune” director has even gone as far as to write an op-ed to elaborate on his laundry list of issues with the same-day streaming plan the platform has for all of its 2021 films.
The biggest streaming platform for anime/manga is undoubtedly Crunchy Roll and AT&T knows it. Taking advantage of their popularity, AT&T is asking a whopping 1.5 billion from Sony to buy the property from them. Sony executives reportedly “balked” at such a high ticket price for a very specific streaming site.