Nine days before Cinema United looks Paramount executives eye to eye at their Las Vegas confab, CinemaCon, the movie theater lobbyist org’s boss Michael O’Leary has fired off some letters this week. He wrote to the National Association of Attorneys General, the Democratic Attorneys General Association and the Republican Attorneys General Association about the Melrose Lot studio’s pending union with Warner Bros, declaring, “I strongly urge you to thoroughly investigate and move to block this proposed merger to ensure it does not harm competition or our local communities.”
Yes, a consolidation of the motion picture studios from five down to four would mean fewer jobs, less choices for moviegoers, higher tickets prices, increased leveraged rental terms on cinemas by studios, potential multiplex closings and depleting ticket sales. Just look at what happened with 20th Century Fox movies post Disney-Fox (a $1 billion
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