Hollywood’s Merger Mania: Inside the Studios’ Scramble to Match Silicon Valley 

The Lionsgate deal offers a preview of the mergers and acquisitions to come in 2017 as media companies rush to combine to gain leverage in their negotiations with such digital distributors as Amazon, Apple and Google parent Alphabet.

Source: Hollywood’s Merger Mania: Inside the Studios’ “Size Anxiety,” Scramble to Match Silicon Valley | Hollywood Reporter