This is becoming comical. At CinemaCon Thursday, the wannabe Warner Bros. Discovery owner David Ellison stood onstage and gave theater proprietors his “word” that the combined WarnerMount studio would release 30 movies a year as 45-day theatrical exclusives, with at least 90 days before dropping on subscription streaming. His word, people. His word! Which, on one hand, is a very rich-guy thing to do. Ellison has pledged these same windows for months. But now we should really believe him because when someone whose father is worth hundreds of billions of dollars looks you in the eye and gives you his word, how dare anyone be skeptical of the motives or long-term intentions that his word might entail (or, more likely, not entail)? But on the other hand, short of proposing government-enforced conditions of the merger or signing individual contracts with theater chains, what else can Ellison do? Either people believe him or they don’t. He’ll either be forced to make concessions to get this deal approved—or, more likely, he won’t.