Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on Netflix deal: ‘AMC should buy it’
How would Matt Remick react to the shocking news that Netflix is selling Warner Bros. and acquires HBO Max?
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Executive Producers of the Emmy-Winning Apple TV Comedy ‘The Studio,’ Talk Variety that they believe their fictional studio manager, played by Rogen in the series, would react with his gut feeling of fear.
“He would be scared of it,” Rogen said Variety. “He would be terrified of it. I think he assumes that if you do it right, they won’t sell your company, your studio, to a tech company. But I think he would be proven wrong in this case.”
Rogen and Goldberg were at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday night for the 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Awards presented by the Los Angeles Press Club. Rogen and his wife, Lauren Miller, will receive the club’s Visionary Award for their charitable work.
When pressed by Variety As for their personal reactions to the $82.7 billion deal that will marry the world’s dominant streamer with Hollywood’s largest studio and the HBO Max platform, Rogen said sincerely: “Absolutely not.”
But Goldberg was game. “I don’t know. Who knows if it even happens,” he said Variety. “I think AMC should buy it,” he said, referring to the world’s largest exhibition chain and the movie world’s fear that Netflix will close down the exhibition windows for Warner Bros. film releases. will decrease significantly.
“That’s my personal opinion. AMC should buy it all. I don’t know how, but they should. No one will see that coming,” Goldberg said. “That would be in conflict with Netflix.”
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