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    Former Amazon Studios boss warns the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal will make Hollywood ‘a system that circles a single sun’

    Former Amazon Studios boss warns the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal will make Hollywood ‘a system that circles a single sun’

    “A Netflix merger with Warner Bros. would create a monopsony problem: too few buyers with too much bargaining power.”

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