[spbaar]

Aren't movies and movie theaters one of the only industries where that type of vertical integration is explicitly illegal?

[lotsofpulp]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-terminates-para...

Not as of Aug 2020.

[JohnHaugeland]

Under the Paramount decrees of 1948, it was decided that the theaters plus the studios were creating a monopoly. After all, it's not like anyone had screens at home.

That was vacated last year, in observation that TV and the internet now exist.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-moti...