Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Paul Anderson, and Ryan Reynolds have publicly called out Warner Bros./Discovery (WBD) CEO David Zaslav for his plan to dissolve Turner Classic Movie (TCM) network in his goal to cut expenses at WBD by $4 billion.
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| Spielberg with Zaslav |
Zaslav has already fired the entire TCM senior management team, so when word of the demise of the TCM archive was next to go the fearsome foursome went into action. They called Zaslav for an "emergency meeting" in what was described as the destruction of the most important and original films in cinematic history.
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| Reynolds and Scorsese |
Ryan Reynolds tweeted, "Don't F*** with TCM".
The discussions, thus far, have worked and the TCM archives are secure. Rumors have it is that Netflix is trying to work a deal to take over HBO and TCM from WBC.
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Cinema Mucho Gusto's Take
Zaslav is sleazy. What he is doing is throwing out threats to dissolve TCM in the hope of increasing its value (along with HBO's) in the Netflix deal. It's that simple.
Let's face it. For anyone with even a little passion for movie history, the TCM archive represents a graphicly depicted historic timeline, which must be respected - it represents is our past in story-form.
By: Jim Lavorato, Entertainment Equipment Corp.
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