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Guest Essay

By Peter Suderman

Mr. Suderman is the features editor at Reason and a host of the podcast “Across the Movie Aisle.”

In 2025, Hollywood faced something of an existential crisis — and that was before the news that Netflix was attempting to purchase Warner Bros., one of the movie industry’s most storied studios.

Box office sales have flagged since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they have recently suffered the worst October in decades, excluding only 2020.........

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