
As a total cinema buff, I’ve been following the Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount situation closely. Yesterday, Paramount’s Bob Bakish and Andy Gordon actually went to Warner Bros. headquarters to talk to around 200 of their executives – people from the film studio, TV division, and HBO Max. The meeting happened in their big theater on the Burbank lot. But from what I’m hearing, it didn’t go as well as Warner Bros. hoped. They know Paramount is trying to cut costs – at least $6 billion worth – but nobody’s quite sure where those cuts will land. Apparently, Bakish, who’s 42, addressed a lot of big names in the room, including Warner Bros. film heads Pamela Abdy and Mike De Luca, Channing Dugney who runs their TV group, Casey Bloys from HBO, JB Perrette overseeing streaming, and even Peter Safran who’s in charge of DC films.