Jonah Gardner is a novelist and film critic who lives in Philadelphia.
Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison is holding California hostage as his $110 billion Warner Bros. takeover falters — exposing a mogul more interested in power and prestige than preserving the film industry he claims to love.
The Odyssey’s runaway success should green light more 70mm IMAX screens. But deindustrialization killed the skilled trades that built the projectors and the union jobs that ran them — so instead we’ll get resale markets and paywalled seats.
Netflix is after far more than the Warner Bros. movie studio — it wants to destroy cinema as we know it.