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Last updated Nov 29, 2025
Prediction
Sacks
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Over time following 2021, large technology companies will acquire and control the majority of major Hollywood studios and their content output (i.e., "big tech will eat Hollywood").
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Explanation

As of late 2025, Big Tech has not acquired or directly controlled the majority of the major Hollywood studios.

  1. The current “Big Five” major studios are Walt Disney Studios, Universal, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and Paramount Skydance. They are owned respectively by The Walt Disney Company, Comcast (via NBCUniversal), Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony Group, and Paramount Skydance Corporation—not by Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, Meta, Microsoft, or Netflix.(en.wikipedia.org) These five together control over 80% of the 2024 North American box office, while Amazon MGM Studios holds only about 3.4%.(en.wikipedia.org)

  2. Since 2021, the only major studio acquisition by a large tech company has been Amazon’s purchase of MGM, completed in March 2022 and later folded into Amazon MGM Studios.(en.wikipedia.org) Industry references classify Amazon MGM as a mini‑major, not one of the Big Five majors, and its box‑office share remains far smaller than any of the Big Five.(en.wikipedia.org)

  3. Paramount did merge with Skydance in 2025 to form Paramount Skydance, but Skydance itself is a media/production company backed by investors, not a consumer tech platform on the order of Amazon, Apple, or Google; the resulting parent is still a traditional media conglomerate rather than “Big Tech.”(en.wikipedia.org)

  4. Where Big Tech has come to dominate is distribution and viewing time, not ownership of the legacy studios: by May 2025, streaming accounted for 44.8% of all U.S. TV usage, surpassing cable plus broadcast for the first time, with YouTube and Netflix leading overall TV streaming share and Amazon’s Prime Video also significant.(nielsen.com) But this is dominance of platforms, not of the underlying studio assets that produce most Hollywood films.

Because the Big Five studios remain primarily owned by traditional media conglomerates and only one mini‑major (MGM) has been acquired by a Big Tech company, Sacks’ normalized prediction that large technology companies would acquire and control the majority of major Hollywood studios and their content output has not materialized by November 30, 2025.