Thirty years have flashed by since Enniskillen’s finest, Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, released a hit single When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe, lauding the virtues of the French cinema and containing the singular chorus: “When the lights go out all over Europe/I forget about old MGM/’Cause Paramount was never Universal/And Warners went out way back when…"
It’s not many pop tunes that manage to namecheck the titans of the Los Angeles dream-machine in one nifty chorus and it would have made a convenient headline for Friday morning’s news that Netflix is on track to complete a deal to swallow up the historic Warner Bros for $82.7 billion.
The acquisition of one financial entertainment behemoth by another is not the sort of news to make people put their morning c
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