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The Kristian Harloff Show

Netflix Officially WINS Bidding War For Warner Bros! What Does This Mean?!

The Kristian Harloff Show

Kristian Harloff

Tv & Film, News

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Netflix has officially won the bidding war for Warner Bros, and this could become the biggest entertainment shake-up in modern Hollywood history. Today on The Kristian Harloff Show, we break down what Netflix buying Warner Bros means for DC Studios, HBO, Warner Bros Discovery, theatrical releases, streaming competition, and the future of iconic franchises like Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, DCU, and more. This episode covers the full fallout of Netflix winning the Warner Bros acquisition, including how this could affect the DC Universe reboot, upcoming slate decisions, leadership changes, and what this merger means for the future of streaming dominance.

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0:00.0

look i was wrong i always say it when i'm wrong wrong i could have sworn paramount was going to win

0:09.5

they did not i could have sworn that netflix was just doing this to up the price i was wrong

0:19.3

netflix gets warn Brothers. They did it. They acquire Warner Brothers and

0:28.0

HBO Max. It's that easy. It's that simple. It's done. It's over, right? Wrong. Lots of stuff

0:34.1

going to be messy. Going to be lawsuits lawsuits going to be shit going down and that's

0:40.9

really what's going to happen here uh today and man i'll tell you i was wrong about a lot of things

0:47.4

i was wrong about um my math i was doing a reaction today with sam and i was trying to do two things a once and I was like,

0:55.5

okay, let me just tell Chris and Winston, we've got to push it back an hour.

0:59.7

And I told them, hey, can you guys do 12 o'clock?

1:04.0

Which makes no sense in general because they usually do 12 o'clock.

1:08.7

That's 9 a.m. their time, 12 o'clock my time. What I meant to write was 1 o'clock my time. And instead, they thought it was 12 o'clock their time. So I had to send an email and say, hey, I messed up my math about four minutes ago. So it's a good part. I think, I think Chris is at least going to show up. It's a good possibility. We only have Chris. I don't know. I had to send that email out, but my schedule is kind of moving today. So Chris will be here soon. I think Winston will be here. I don't know. But nonetheless, we got a lot to talk about. So between that, and really going to be, as I said, this story has been moving for a bit.

1:48.6

So the question is going to be, when does it get done?

1:53.9

Does it get done?

1:55.0

And what does it mean in general if it does get done?

1:58.7

So we're putting together what we put together.

2:02.6

It is the absolute, craziest show so far.

2:10.2

Let's get into it, everybody.

2:12.0

It's a Christian Harleff show.

2:13.7

Here we go.

2:16.2

Thank you. Here we go.

2:29.3

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

2:34.6

So, what a crazy day it was in general. I woke up to a text from, from Winston general who said, um,

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