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“It isn’t done too often, but there are some actions here that are also somewhat unprecedented,” the Texas lawmaker said, citing Warner Bros. Discovery’sand the project was in post-production. “For the sake of a tax write off, because the company is carrying so much debt as a result of the merger, they canceled it,” Castro said. “If there had been no merger, that movie would have ended up going to theaters and on the streaming platforms.”
Lol, private companies can do what they want, as long as they are on our side. Get rid of the activism and we have problems!