From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

The creep of the closing window and the march towards streaming was inevitable.

We're just getting there in a very bloody way.

Jason Blum knows bloody.

He produces horror movies after all.

With Hollywood fuming following Warner Brothers' surprise announcement that all its

2021 movies will stream the same day they open in theaters, Blum, who's also been Oscar nominated

for his film's Whiplash, Get Out, and Black Klansman weighs in. Blum does not have a film on the

upcoming Warner Brothers slate, but I asked him, what if he did?

What can you say? If I had gotten that call, I would have been, I would have been deeply

disappointed and I would have called my lawyer and said, are they allowed to do this?

Yes, I think you would have been deeply disappointed and possibly very loud. I don't know, tell me.

I didn't say I'd be quiet. We're taking the whole episode to talk about this watershed moment in the industry.

But first on the news banter, obviously Matt and I are still amped up.

Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my buddy in banter, Matt Bellany.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So the blowback from the Warner Media decision to throw all of its 2021 slate onto the HBO Max, the struggling HBO Max,

to put all those movies on the streaming, the same day that they premiere in

theaters. This goes to Jason Kiler's plan that the customer is first, but there's another saying

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