Major Studios Might Be Able to Buy Their Own Theaters Soon – Why That’s a Bad Thing

Here's a heaping dose of "yikes" for anyone worried about the future of independent cinemas and major studios' stranglehold on film distribution: The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to get rid of the Paramount Consent Decrees, a long-standing set of regulations that curbed the way major studios distributed their films. In a speech to the American Bar Association, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said [via Variety] the decrees "no longer serve the public interest, because the horizontal conspiracy — the original violation animating the decrees — has been stopped." The Decrees have been in place since the 1948 …

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