Street Fighter, Netflix cuts and Ray Gunn may show mergers’ long reach

Deadline framed Street Fighter, which took about $4 million in Thursday previews, as among the first movies on the combined Paramount–Warner Bros. slate. Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs amid slower growth and competition, TechCrunch and the BBC reported; TechCrunch noted it lost the Warner Bros. Discovery bidding to Paramount Skydance. Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn, shelved after the Time Warner merger, gets a Netflix release in December, Deadline reported. Read together, they may show how far mergers reach.

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