Cinema United chair Michael O’Leary was not afraid to take strong positions when delivering his annual state of the union address in Las Vegas, saying theater owners will continue to oppose David Ellison‘s bid for Paramount-Skydance to merge with Warner Bros. He also said is association will continue to press for longer theatrical windows.
“We believe this transaction will be harmful to exhibition, consumers and the entire entertainment eco-system,” O’Leary said. “Further concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies and access to historic film catalogs will have a real and lasting impact on Main Street and millions of movie fans around the world.”
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