[RickHull]

> B. Columbia make a movie. Netflix buys the rights to distribute this movie from Columbia

It's interesting that Columbia is treated as a plural subject while Netflix is singular. I'm pretty sure it's a Britishism to treat a firm as plural, but why doesn't Netflix get the same treatment? Earlier in the piece, Paramount gets the plural treatment.

[edent]

At a guess, because the "ix" makes an "s" sound. So, in the writer's mind, it sounds like a plural i.e. "Netflicks".

[kaoD]

That would make the opposite right.

  Columbia buys
  Netflicks buy