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The Warner Bros. split is “an acknowledgment that the idea of building something big enough to compete in the streaming war didn’t work,” said Peter Murrieta, a writer and deputy director of the Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University.

Friday afternoon she collected her diploma when she walked in the film school’s graduation.

“I feel like I went to film school and got to make 15 short films with all of these different genres and different characters. And I got to apply what I love, a fun twist.”

The 22-year-old film school graduate, who works as a receptionist at the Ross Stores buying office in downtown Los Angeles, said that for most of those applications, she never heard back — not even a rejection.

Director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson met in film school at USC.