Warner Bros. has a history of disastrous mergers and acquisitions. Can they avoid another bad sequel as Netflix and Paramount battle to buy it?

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos made a surprise appearance at Canal+’s The Original+ showcase in Paris on Tuesday, seeking to calm French industry fears about the streaming giant’s $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

Cinema owners oppose a megadeal that would see one of the last Hollywood legacy studios snapped up only five years after the demise of 20th Century Fox: "We have fixed costs."

Theater owners fear a sale of Warner Bros. to another major media player could further decrease movie production at a time when the industry has faced multiple setbacks.

Interviews with dozens of actors, producers and camera crews reveal an industry attempting to weigh the lesser of two horrible choices.

Netflix is a company that understands the value of themed entertainment. While the world doesn’t have a Netflix theme park (yet), by the time you read this, the company will have opened its second Netflix House complex in as many months, with a third location already planned for Las Vegas.

Iger weighed in as Netflix and Paramount Skydance square off in a high-stakes battle for control of Warner Bros. Discovery.