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Hope For Film

To block media consolidation or to build the new ecosystem? It is not either/or.

Pursuing either won't harm the other, but neglecting one will limit opportunity for all.

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Ted Hope
Mar 14, 2026
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always building… always demolishing too….

Blocking the Paramount / Warners merger – and our effort of doing so – is a necessary action for all filmmakers to take part in.

It is not even the specific instance – win or lose -- that matters. The resistance to consolidation in general and the need for us to imagine and create a cinema ecosystem that prioritiz…

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