AGC Studios chairman Stuart Ford, one of the independent film sector’s longest-standing and most influential financiers, offered a blunt assessment Friday of Netflix’s potential takeover of Warner Bros. Asked during a keynote appearance at Berlin’s European Film Market whether such a deal would be good for the film business, Ford didn’t hesitate. “Probably, no,” he said. The former Miramax executive and producer of Hacksaw Ridge, Silence and Hit Man acknowledged that one potential safeguard would be ensuring Netflix commits long-term to releasing Warner Bros. films theatrically “in a proper manner, with proper windowing.” That, he suggested, could help avoid “one major pitfall.” But Ford argued the more “existential threat” posed by a studio-streamer mega-merger lies in a somewhat less attacked issue: Netflix’s longstanding business model of excluding producers and talent from meaningful backend participation tied to a film’s financial performance. “If the culture becomes one of everybody’s an Uber driver, and we’re all just working for the big guy, we’re going to lose talent coming into this business, generationally — whether it’s film, television, micro …