Warner Bros. Discovery and its CEO, David Zaslav, have earned a bloodless reputation for pruning home platforms of content to save a buck.
Counterintuitively, who knows what WBD just paid to acquire "Pay-1" rights to films from red-hot indie label A24. But it had to be considerable. And it will undoubtedly do some reparation to brands including HBO, which has been besieged under Zaslav's watch with claims of being stripped bare of prestige.
