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Dade Hayes

Dade Hayes

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Oct 6, 2026

23:14
Is that kind of a blip, just given its recent, or is this indicative of a deeper problem at Warner Brothers?
23:23
I mean, I'm not in L.A. and covering the studio these days, so I can't really attest to this sort of, you know, the atmosphere on the lot.
23:33
But I will say there is absolutely volatility, you know, baked into the movie business.
23:39
Having covered it over my years, you know, covering Hollywood, it's interesting.
23:43
It's always cyclical and it's always a suspicious thing when someone comes in.
23:48
And I'm not saying that this is their playbook exactly, but, you know, anytime you've got big investors and they've, you know, gone out to a huge syndicate, including Amazon, Middle East countries, I mean, they've really gotten a big coalition of financial backers, and they've really sort of come to market with this idea that they can kind of de-risk the movie business.
24:10
But that's pretty much impossible.
25:14
Dave, what about who's going to be in the prime leadership positions? Do we know yet? And we know how, you know, sort of percentage wise, Warner Brothers versus Paramount execs are going to be leading the combined entity.

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