Classic WB Movies Whose Theatrical Events Were Extremely ‘Consumer

It’s official! Or at least as official as these sorts of things can be before ever increasingly corporate-compliant regulators in D.C. give the next black hole of resource-consolidation its rubber stamp. Yep, Netflix is buying Warner Bros. Discovery.

To put that another way, the company that started as a DVD rental mailing service has grown gargantuan enough in the streaming era to buy out one of the last remaining (and biggest) movie studios in the world, Warner Bros. Pictures—plus all the attendant accessories that come with it, including HBO, HBO Max, and CNN. The company that began by hawking WB’s wares (among others) will now own and decide the fate of a 103-year-old studio which counts Casablanca , The Wizard of Oz (though technically an MGM picture), The Dark Knight , and Th