{"id":2287521,"date":"2026-02-18T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2287521"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:24:51","slug":"cinemark-ceo-is-a-bit-apprehensive-to-buy-into-netflixs-45-day-theatrical-window-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cinemark-ceo-is-a-bit-apprehensive-to-buy-into-netflixs-45-day-theatrical-window-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinemark CEO Is \u201ca Bit Apprehensive\u201d to Buy Into Netflix\u2019s 45-Day Theatrical Window Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Gamble<\/a> is not as much of a risk-taker as his surname suggests. Before Netflix<\/a> sits down at the big boy table as owners of Warner Bros.<\/a>, the Cinemark<\/a> CEO would like to see a little \u201cmore action,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

On a Wednesday conference call timed to Cinemark\u2019s fourth quarter 2025 earnings, Gamble faced a few questions about Netflix\u2019s stated theatrical plans should the streamer\u2019s $83 billion acquisition of WB<\/a>, including its legendary film studio, go through. Gamble and the rest of the industry have good reason to be skeptical about Ted Sarandos\u2019 dedication to the theatrical exhibition industry considering how Netflix \u2014 and streaming in general \u2014 has upended the business.<\/p>\n

Gamble said that \u201cfor a long while\u201d he\u2019s been \u201coptimistic\u201d that Netflix would eventually see the light \u2014 in this case the value of theatrical beyond even box office \u2014 like fellow techies Amazon and Apple<\/a> have. To shirk theatrical…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Gamble is not as much of a risk-taker as his surname suggests. Before Netflix sits down at the big boy table as owners of Warner Bros., the Cinemark CEO would like to see a little \u201cmore action,\u201d he says. On a Wednesday conference call timed to Cinemark\u2019s fourth quarter 2025 earnings, Gamble faced a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2287522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2287521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cinemark-CEO-Is-a-Bit-Apprehensive-to-Buy-Into-Netflixs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287523,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287521\/revisions\/2287523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}