After Smashing Machine ‘s 15 1/2-minute standing ovation at Venice, which brought Dwayne Johnson to tears, the wrestler-turned movie star finally earned his first Golden Globe nomination this morning for his turn as tormented MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the A24 movie. Johnson’s nom was in the Lead Male Actor Motion Picture Drama category.

That Golden Globe victory came against further noise this morning in Netflix and Paramount’s fight for 102-year-old studio, Warner Bros. The fear by many being that a Netflix win would collapse the theatrical window, causing theaters to close, and turning the motion picture ancillary business upside down, if not extinct.

“I don’t have a fear that the theatrical experience is going away, because I believe deep in my heart as someone who loves our indust

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