What Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. means for the movies

Dec 5, 2025, 4:12 PM | Updated: Aug 19, 2026, 9:55 pm

FILE - A visitor walks past portraits of DC Comics superheroes as she enters the "Action and Magic Made Here" interactive experience at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood media preview on June 24, 2021, in Burbank, Calif. (Chris Pizzello, Associated Press)

(Chris Pizzello, Associated Press)

BY LINDSEY BAHR, AP FILM WRITER

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