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Hollywood just hit a seismic crossroads when Netflix moved to swallow Warner Bros. in a deal that will put century-old studios and some of the most valuable franchises under one Big Tech roof. This isn’t nostalgia talking — it’s reality: the announced acquisition transfers vast cultural power and decision-making about what Americans see to a single, Silicon Valley-controlled platform.
Actor Zachary Levi — a man of faith and one of the rare Hollywood voices willing to risk his career for his convictions — told listeners he’s genuinely anxious about what this consolidation means for filmmakers and moviegoers. On Megyn Kelly’s show he warned about the dangers of one company dictating what stories get made and how they’re distributed, and he emphasized the downstream damage to the theatrical experience audiences love.
Conservatives should listen when working actors speak up: fewer owners means fewer viewpoints, and when one corporation controls both the content pipeline and the means of distribution, ideological gatekeeping becomes inevitable. This is not a partisan fever dream — it’s simple economics and power: consolidation concentrates influence, and influence dictates what narratives get promoted and what voices get silenced.
The industry will tell you theatrical releases are safe, but history and incentives tell a different story. Streaming giants make their money by maximizing subscriber minutes, not by preserving communal moviegoing or nurturing films that offend the cultural engineers in their C-suites, and that shift will hollow out independent cinemas and the local economies that depend on them.
And let’s not gloss over the financial reality: piling tens of billions more in debt on Netflix to buy a studio behemoth is risky and will inevitably put pressure on content budgets and creative freedom. When cost-cutting becomes the watchword, artistic risk-taking and the kinds of modest, faith-infused or family-friendly films that actually serve Middle America get the axe first.
Levi’s perspective matters because he’s one of the actors who has defended faith-centered storytelling in Hollywood and spoken candidly about how studios only noticed those audiences once the dollars showed up. If a dominant streaming monopoly decides such films aren’t profitable enough or are politically inconvenient, that market will evaporate despite real demand from hardworking Americans.
This moment calls for conservatives to get organized — not with tantrums, but with concrete pressure: demand antitrust scrutiny, support state and local theaters, and vote with your dollars by backing filmmakers who champion traditional values. We should applaud actors like Zachary Levi for speaking truth about the stakes and insist that American culture remain pluralistic, not consolidated under the thumb of a single coastal tech conglomerate.
