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Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee US$40.4 billion in Paramount Skydance’s latest effort to pry Warner Bros Discovery away from selling its prized…
The streaming giant plans to tap capital markets to further reduce its bridge facility and extend its debt maturities Netflix has refinanced part of a US$59 billion bridge loan to support…
As the future of the studio hangs in the balance, Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix leaders put on a show of force Wednesday afternoon when Netflix brass paid a visit to the Warner Bros.…
Warner Bros. is telling shareholders of the company that it believes a $72 billion buyout offer from Netflix is superior, and to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance.…
A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed…
Warner Bros. Discovery‘s board has formally said “no thanks” to the $108 billion takeover bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and unanimously reiterated its support for the Netflix…
WARNER Bros Discovery’s board could announce a decision as early as Wednesday on Paramount Skydance’s US$108.4 billion takeover bid, with the board likely to advise shareholders to vote…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos made a surprise appearance at Canal+‘s The Original+ showcase in Paris on Tuesday, seeking to calm French industry fears about the streaming giant’s $83 billion…
Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, the co-CEOs of Netflix, issued a memo to staffers that conveyed their belief that the company’s deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO Max will withstand a…
“Saturday Night Live” opened this week’s episode with Donald Trump commenting on the battle to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — by asking why anyone would even want to buy the studio: “They’ve…
Can ChatGPT dethrone Gemini? Is Tim Cook capable of leading Apple into the next wave of AI? As 2025 winds down, journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher cuts through the noise and decodes…
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, would be out of a job if a deal is completed with Netflix or Paramount Skydance. Softening the blow: Zaslav stands to get…
President Donald Trump, who has inserted himself into the U.S. government’s review of a potential deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, said it is “imperative” that CNN be sold as part of any…
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios, many still under their longtime executives,…
new video loaded: The Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Nicole Sperling, a Times reporter who covers Hollywood and the streaming revolution, breaks down the competing bids from Netflix and…
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.…
“While I was focused on delivering real results, judges in my state took advantage of a flawed blue slip tradition and became weapons for the politicized left.... They joined New Jersey…
Netflix seeks studios and streaming only, while Paramount bids for the entire group Who ends up with the assets of Warner Bros Discovery, the owner of one of Hollywood’s largest and most…
Acceptance of the bid would trigger a US$2.8 billion breakup fee payable to Netflix Paramount Skydance on Monday (Dec 9) launched a hostile bid worth US$108.4 billion for Warner Bros…
President Donald Trump said he’s withholding judgment about whether Paramount Skydance‘s hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery or Netflix‘s deal with WBD should prevail. At a White House…
On December 5, the entertainment world was rocked when Netflix and Warner Bros. announced a massive deal that set Netflix up to purchase the legendary Hollywood studio, creating one of the…
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Paramount Skydance goes hostile for Warner Bros. Discovery. Will David Ellison bust up WBD’s engagement to Netflix? And Variety’s Brent Lang…
“They have talent. They have talent. The great Gary Player, he hits shots. He’s 90 years old. He still plays good. Shot a 70 with me the other day. He’s 90. We’re playing pretty far back…
Paramount promised to release more than 30 films theatrically as the company launched its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. In a call with press and investors on Monday, the…
