{"id":979281,"date":"2025-12-09T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979281"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:23:15","slug":"netflixs-warner-bros-deal-indian-multiplexes-flag-existential-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/netflixs-warner-bros-deal-indian-multiplexes-flag-existential-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s Warner Bros. deal: Indian multiplexes flag existential concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Multiplex Association of India (MAI) on Sunday raised strong objections to the proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by global streaming major Netflix, warning that the deal could significantly hurt India\u2019s theatrical ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s cinema business relies on a steady pipeline of international and local releases to draw audiences, MAI said, adding that the acquisition of a major Hollywood studio by a dominant streaming platform \u2014 which has \u201chistorically deprioritised\u201d theatrical releases \u2014 threatens both competition and the broader film economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Multiplex Association of India (MAI) on Sunday raised strong objections to the proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by global streaming major Netflix, warning that the deal could significantly hurt India\u2019s theatrical ecosystem. India\u2019s cinema business relies on a steady pipeline of international and local releases to draw audiences, MAI said, adding that the acquisition of a major Hollywood studio by a dominant streaming platform \u2014 which has \u201chistorically deprioritised\u201d theatrical releases \u2014 threatens both competition and the broader film economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}