Looks like Paramount's takeover isn't happening unless they get more funding (Jared Kushner and the PIF are reportedly dropping out of the deal, and Larry Ellison doesn't want to give more money for David). Paramount could still buy the cable channels for a much lower price if they wish.https://deadline.com/2025/12/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-netflix-merger-1236650715/
>>151756796>defining the next century of storytellingOh shit oh fuck. I hope notHow fucking pretentious to even say.
>>151756796i know warner are retards but this is a new low
why is paramount so yandere
>>151756796>defining the next century of storytellingThis feels like a threat.
>>151756796>Studio that isn't perfect but actually makes some original and interesting content buys out studio that has a ton of solid IPs, but whose retarded CEO has inexplicably been canning 75% of its interesting projects as tax write-offs.I'm calling this a win.
>>151756796And thusPhysical media dies
>>151756908>actually makes some original and interesting contentLMAO
>>151756970Yep. Neftlix has been tripping over it's own dick to claim that WB movies will still have theatrical releases, even backtracking on having shorter windows, yet as said nothing about physical media
>>151756796This deal won’t go through, they have a fiduciary obligation to take the paramount deal. Zaslav wanting a fat check on the way out the door doesn’t change that.
>>151756959Game of Thrones: Big Mouth Edition
>>151756908>inexplicably been canning 75% of its interesting projectsSurely you don’t mean Coyote v Acme and batgirl, right?
>>151756796They were always going to reject it. The boardroom is set on Netflix acquiring it. The hostile takeover is to try to get shareholders to overturn the board’s decision and have Paramount acquire it. They are setting a shareholder vote for spring or summer The other hurdle will be FCC regulators approving
>live long enough to see netflix going from that little website with ads in death battle videos to the all consuming media juggernaut that won the streaming wars, killed physical media and now going to eat up Warner Brothers for lunch
>>151757012The paramount deal just lost the most important backers, so not really.
>>151756796>Paramount could still buy the cable channelsKek>Sorry, the Bentley's been sold but I've got this Trabant with a fuel leak if you're interested
>>151756796Trump won't let this happen.
>>151757084Anon I remember the shittiest ass quality advertisements around 2005 for the dvd business To think that would be the company that buys Warner Bros
I want a Stranger Things crossover with Batman
>>151757093They said they wouldn’t put more money up, if the deal were to go through they’d back it as is.
>>151757012>they have a fiduciary obligation to take the paramount dealThey don’t. Especially when the funding is dubious and it isn’t even that great of a deal when Netflix is willing to pay so much for just some of WB assets where as Paramount is trying to buy everything.
>>151757155Trump is too retarded to stop it, he can barely stay awake.
>>151756796Time to start ripping blurays and learn how to pirate if you don't know already.
GASP
>>151756862How are they being retarded. They think that Warner + the cable channels should be more valuable that 30 dollars per share. Ellison is being a cheapstake basically just offering 3 extra dollars for the channels.
>>151756796Paramount's valuation is like 17b yet threw in a 108b bid because they're a propaganda wing of Israel and the USA so weird.
>>151757281Either way, there’s too much of a market share in the acquisition. There’s no way the DOJ and FTC will approve it.
>>151758052>There’s no way the DOJ and FTC will approve itWhy not? The DOJ is full of incompetent people that can stop losing lawsuits and the FTC is totally toothless. Netflix just need to give Trump a golden shinny trophy and he would aprove anything for them
Ouch for Paramount. Thats gotta sting.
>>151758052People said the same thing about Disney and Fox.
>>151758052Netflix has been de-wokeifying itself over the last couple of years. It would be hypocritical of the federal government to block this.
>>151756796If the FTC does reject this deal, what happens next? WB does not want to remain a separate entity, so what are they going to do if big government slaps them and Netflix?
>>151758052AHAHAHAHA
>>151758231Try again. Maybe with someone else.
>>151758231They'll allow other companies to bid again.
>>151756866Because a neppo-baby owns it.>>151756796I don't like any of these outcomes, but I'll take this over another Disney-tier media monopoly that would've formed with the Ellisons since they already own Paramount and tiktok.
>>151758197>Netflix has been de-wokeifying itself over the last couple of years. No it hasn't, and even if that were true that isn't a good reason to let them buy WB.
>>151758231WB will be sold to somebody, because the alternative is bankruptcy which is much worse for their creditors.
Guys, relax. Once the Netflix deal goes through, they're just going to keep the valuable shit like HBO and spin off all the animated shit as part of an independent Warner Bros. in 3 years loaded in so much debt that it will be literally worthless. Then that will get snapped up by the Saudis and Republicans looking to get control of CNN.See? Everybody wins.
>>151757169We're more likely for Mark Millar to take Jim Lee's job as president of DC Comics and merge his imprint with DC's universe.
>>151758382>WB will be sold to somebody, because the alternative is bankruptcy which is much worse for their creditors.How long can this corporate hot potato last? Seems like it can only be passed around one or two more times before they're out of buyers that can even afford the debt and then it will be spun off, declare bankruptcy, and be stripped bare and sold for parts.
>>151756908>actually makes some original and interesting contentThat describes neither.
>>151758480I read most of WB's debt will be dumped on Discovery. Dunno how true that is.
>>151758052>>151758093>>151758177Trump completely stripped the FCC and the DOJ of their Biden-era admins and replaced them with his sycophants that are supposed to be way leaner and far more lax over consolidation; they're the polar opposites of Lina Khan.Mind you, her FCC's successes in shutting down or filing lawsuits against corporate mergers and acquisitions was at best, a mixed bag. They were successful in getting Adobe to fuck off from buying Figma and stopping JetBlue and Spirit from merging together, but they couldn't stop one of the biggest players in tech (Microsoft) from getting their hands on the No.1 biggest North American gaming company (Activision). And given how much Trump has been bitching over and over about Paramount and the owners these couple days, including his son-in-law's investment company, Affinity Partners, backing away from the deal, it's looking more likely that this grand plan that Ellison formulated from the start is set to blow up in his face.
>SAVE US GOD-EMPERORThis is what american "politics" have become?jfc, your country is a parody of what it once was.
>>151758550>it's looking more likely that this grand plan that Ellison formulated from the start is set to blow up in his face.What does that mean? Who gets WB then?
>>151758571The executive has always stepped in during times of great cultural upheaval. Lincoln basically ran the country by fiat during the civil war.
>>151758501This is what AT&T did that put WB in this mess to begin with. WB is just passing along the debt they inherited off to the declining cable assets and businesses so that some other sucker can buy it and get trapped by the debt or it goes bankrupt being unable to handle paying all that debt off.It's what Comcast was planning on doing to WB if they got their hands on them anyways.
>>151758567He's not too many peoples' emperor now, what with him crashing our economy and making us all poor.
>>151756862How? Paramount who has no money so they had to cancel their top rated show but then spends 1 billion on South Park should win the auction by having a worse offer? Just because Paramount is acting threatening after being rejected?
>>151758602>had to cancel their top rated showThe Colbert show was losing money.
Trumptards BTFO
Trump won't do shit about this
>>151758630Except shit his adult diaper.
>>151758571Ellison's original plan was to stake a claim in the entertainment media landscape by being the sole owner of the largest and arguably most valuable media conglomerate since Disney. He planned to merge his company Skydance with Paramount and Warner Bros. to do just that. He succeeded in gaining control of National Amusements, the parent company of Paramount, which is why he now owns Paramount, and he planned to do the same to WB.Unfortunately for him, he made a grave misstep by approaching with a tender offer instead of just, I dunno, quietly buying up shares in WB like what Elon did to Twitter until it landed Ellison the lion's share of shareholder voting control. By approaching in good graces, it gave Zaslav and the board enough time to plan a way around Ellison and make it out with an absurd payout for it.Another thing is that Ellison had overestimated his family's influence over Trump and he kept on passive-aggressively spooking them about how close he was with the government, to which Zaslav said "bet" and called his bluff on it.
>>151758674So Ellison is pro Paramount/WB? I guess he's pretty pissed.
>>151758674>quietly buying up shares in WB like what ElonWat? Elon had to be forced to buy Twitter after he made an offer as a joke and forgot to make sure it was nonbinding.
>>151758698He's absolutely fucking fuming about it lmao.He thought that it would be easy after grabbing Paramount, but he overstepped his connections with Trump and now he gets to watch as the last piece of his corporate empire collapses under his own hubris all thanks to his own doing.The saddest thing about it is that he's not wrong about the WB/Paramount merger being a total juggernaut. It would've been a huge beast that he'd have direct control over but he completely fucked it up because he was too careless and too cozy about it.
>>151758731Yes, but not before he was noted to have been quietly buying up twitter's shares until the execs running the shithole at the time approached him with a proposal to be another member of their board until Elon decided he'd want the whole fucking pie.
>>151756796>Rejecting getting more moneyIsn’t this proof of insiders trading?
No matter who wins, we lose.
>>151758796>more moneyHey retarded nigger gooner how do you think a company is going to actually give 10x what they're valued at?
>>151758501>I read most of WB's debt will be dumped on DiscoveryNot exactly. Both companies would be reshuffled. But the sacrificial lamb would be called Discovery, I suppose.
So then that's it? I doubt FTC will block this.
>>151758752In some ways I do not think it is even the idea of not owning I think it is the first time in his life he was told no, he is not able to do something. For a billionaire that has one of the richest parents of all time that is something he never was before. He owns Paramount but was told there is something he cannot own
Putting in my bid of 2 trillion dollars
>>151758907>Cartoon Network with no Hanna-Barbera, DC, or Warner cartoonsGrim. At least they'll still have Tom and Jerry and Droopy Dog.
>>151759061I think they're considered part of WB now.
>>151756796>>151756862>>151756866Viacom is about to Rape Warner with a Hostile takeover and the shareholders are ready to backstab warner.>>151757076Viacom is going to fuck Warner and have FTC to join on their side.This isn't about buying Warner Anymore, is to hurt Netflix and send an message to pedowood from the government.This is going to get
>>151759061Honestly that raises more questions, if they really are giving up Cartoon Network, are they just giving up the channel or are they also giving up stuff that was created there?I don't think WB would give up Tom and Jerry given how well it does overseas
>>151759013It's likely they won't, but they do still need to get the go-ahead from other regulatory bodies around the world that they have operations in.
>>151759100>fucking retarded captchaThis is going to get nasty and ugly next year.
>>151759102>Honestly that raises more questions, if they really are giving up Cartoon Network, are they just giving up the channel or are they also giving up stuff that was created there?That was my initial concern too but it turns out that they're getting rid of just the cable assets, which includes the channels and networks themselves. Not the actual IP.
>>151759100cool fanfic, bro
>>151759100Whats Viacom got to do with anything?
>>151759094>I think they're considered part of WB now.I just checked. Their rights are with TBS still.
>>151758796Netflix is paying 88 billion for just Warner Bros and HBO. Ellison for the entire company is paying less overall.
>>151759113And what would that look like exactly?
>>151759100Nigga, they're literally TRYING to do that and they're already failing at it lmao
>>151759154Most likely a repeat of the Microsoft-Activision takeover process. It'll be pretty lengthy and protracted but it's still a done deal in the end.
>>151759158They will, but there will be a lot of skeletons leaving the closet to daylight.
>>151759123>That was my initial concern too but it turns out that they're getting rid of just the cable assets, which includes the channels and networks themselves. Not the actual IP.How's that supposed to work? Channels need broadcast rights for shit to put on air. Are they gonna make broke bitch Discovery license their own shows from Netflix? Or is Discovery just expected to fail immediately?I don't think Netflix is stripping all the IPs from the networks they don't want.
>>151759173Well that's disappointing. For a second I thought there was hope.
>>151756796This saga is funny. If you read /co/ the situation is:Two weeks ago, if Netflix bought WB, it was a bad thing.But when Paramount wanted to buy WB, suddenly it was a good thing that Netflix wanted to buy the company.Why did /co/ change his mind?Because the owner of Paramount is a supporter of Donald Trump.
>>151759249Either company getting it is bad. They're both too big, they never should've been allowed to get this big. Any sane society would be trust busting them all.
>>151759205Honestly, if for some fucking reason Netflix wanted the cable businesses, I do see the other regulatory agencies halting the merger from going through, but because Warner's spinning it off to die or get folded in by some schmuck, it just means that they get acquired much more easily than Paramount would have.
>>151759200>Are they gonna make broke bitch Discovery license their own shows from Netflix? Or is Discovery just expected to fail immediately?Yes.Like, Netflix is catching heat from Sarandos talking smack about the theatrical experience so he still needs to uphold his end of the bargain and play nice with all the film directors, screenwriters, and moviegoing folks. Licensing the shows to Discovery would be a good way to earn some goodwill for the moment until people move on. They'll just show reruns only and none of the new stuff; all just to keep the absolute bare minimum to honor all pre-existing agreements and contracts until they're all annulled in time.
>>151759330I mean that's all Cartoon Network is at the moment except for the occasional premieres on Saturday mornings. It's nothing but re-runs now in its current state. Adult Swim has the most new content and they need to be subsidized by Tina's Tacos and Family Man for airtime.
>>151757239They literally do have that LEGAL obligation.
>>151759279Yeah they're not going to do that though.
>>151759275I don't know, this is all WB's fault and not society's responsibility.They've been behaving like mentally retarded people for about twenty years.
>>151759249Both were bad for their own reasons.It's like picking between getting your ass raped, or your mouth fucked.
>Orange Man bad:the thread
>>151759200Someone can correct me if I am wrong but I think that Netflix are not taking ownership of any of the Discovery shows Only CN/AS/Boomerang is largely affected since Warner Bros studios will own all these shows separate from the channel
>>151759485>Someone can correct me if I am wrong but I think that Netflix are not taking ownership of any of the Discovery showsCorrect.>Only CN/AS/Boomerang is largely affected since Warner Bros studios will own all these shows separate from the channelWarner isn't owning ANY cable assets at all. The original plan was to spin off their cable businesses and allow themselves to get acquired by a much bigger company to save themselves.
this seems pretty relevant
>>151759553Goddamn. It looks like Netflix's argument for competing against YouTube for the FTC could go through after all.
>>151759616Fuck
>>151759553>Universal dumping all their debt to the declining cable asset spinoff company to die>WB doing the same thing once they get acquired by Netflix>Cordcutting on the rise>Cable has reached peak users/viewership numbers and are now steadily stagnant but dropping off>Now the Oscars have announced that it will EXCLUSIVELY stream on YouTubeCablebros... just how cucked are we?
>>151759485>Someone can correct me if I am wrong but I think that Netflix are not taking ownership of any of the Discovery showsThe MGM library wasn't transferred to WB like Hanna-Barbera.
>>151759415>They literally do have that LEGAL obligation.They don't. They didn't. They already recommended against it. The shareholders don't have a duty to themselves and could take the deal, but that'd require a critical mass to jump in.
>>151759128Paramount is just Viacom's new name, it's the same company
>>151759720You reap what you sow
>>151759128>>151759893they retired the Viacom name since 2022 and is just known simply as Paramount
>>151759720As long as cable has live sports it will zombie onAs soon as live sports fully go elsewhere cable is over
>>151760499100% this. So give Cable another 3 years, tops.
hope all these jewish propaganda machines implode
>>151756796This is bad. The Netflix-WB merger will kill movie theatres.
>>151760613Theaters as they exist now shouldn't have survived for the last 20ish years.
>>151757155Fuck Trump and it's hillbillies.
Next on the list Disney goes on sales guess who buys them Netflix odf course
lollmao
>>151760631theatres died in 2015-17 when Disney took over
>>151760613So?
>>151760720Wow, that guy on the left is fugly.
I don’t care anymore
>>151760726Disney has kept theaters on life support for well over 25 years now.The issue is that the Boomers who enjoyed taking the grandkids to the theater are dying, and their grandkids have grown up. Their kids, the Gen X, had nostalgia for going to the theater with their parents and kept things rolling along to the peak of theater profitability.But the Millennials started getting real options to see movies beyond "go to theater/wait years for it to come to broadcast tv" and grew distant from theaters. Zoomers only go to them to be "at a scene" with other self-absorbed doomscrollers. Marvel Cinematic up to 2020 was the final gasp of peak theater. Covid finally did it in entirely.Will a few movies pull in a billion dollars worldwide? Yes, but this isn't enough to sustain the theater business model outside of a few of the largest cities.
>>151760499Live sports are already elsewhere, they're on streaming services it's just nobody uses them.
>>151756796HAH, Zaslav you absolute based king. How will Zionists recover from this humiliating defeat
>>151756908And here comes trannjeet contrarian..
Oh wow, a majority of people are surprisingly all for Netflix to consume Warner Bros.Let's hope they don't come to regret the decision like they did when Microsoft devoured Activision Blizzard
>>151760838 They'll use their Best Goy Trump and his unsettling Jew son-in-law Grima Wormtongue to make the whole process as long and painful as possible.
>>151760864People actually like Netflix, and WB has built a decades long reputation for ruining their own franchises.
Neither company should be getting WB. This shouldn't be allowed. We basically only have four media companies.
>>151760878yeah it's looking more and more likely that Warner goes to Netflix for goodone of the reasons that tipped the scales in Microsoft's favor when the decision came to pick whether they'd be good to own Activision was that everyone thought that they'd clean house and fix up the management; erasing their embarrassing controversies
>>151760907>We basically only have four media companies.And once Netflix completes their acquisition of Warner, we'll soon be left with just three as soon as Ellison gets his shit together and takes over Universal/
>>151760942
>>151760942>America will soon be left with just 3 major film studiosyou know, once Apple figures out the battery life problems with their VR headsets, they're going to go after Disney and merge them with Apple TV. I'd say we'll be left with a duopoly instead.
>>151760942>>151760907Have either of you done anything besides complain about media for the last 10 years?Why do you even care?
>>151756862It's all about CNN, and Paramount is heavily backed by Trump.WB don't want government meddling
>>151760760Inbreeding, you know.
>>151760969Half of these are already owned by a foreign entity and half are already part of one of their competitors.
>>151760720>I GAVE YOU DINNER WITH MY DAD PLEASE RESPOND
>>151760987Where do you think we are, anon?
Looool we are in the worst timeline ever right now
>>151760987What the fuck do you expect us peons to do?
>>151760983what do VR headsets have to do with this
>>151756796>WB management urges shareholders not to sell to Paramount Anon the Skydance offer was always a hostile offer, management wants no part in Saudi money. This isn't news.It's also pointless because Trump has said openly that he'll pressure the SEC to deny a Netflix merger and the Skydance offer is half-funded by Saudis through Jared KushnerThe shareholders are going to cash out with Skydance and WB will be owned by right-wing propagandists and Saudi Arabia.
This thread is hilarious None of you read the article None of you understand the difference between a management-mediated buyout and a hostile takeoverYou're just children yelling at each other
>>151761114Kushner already pulled out and no one else is investing anymore then the offerIt is very unlikely shareholders vote for it at this point
>>151761070this is the schizo in me talking, but the more realistic application for this headset would be for a far more enhanced cinematic experience that supersedes going to theaters and they spent a good amount of time in their keynote to advertise their collaboration with Disney to do that.a merged Disney+/Apple TV combo could very well be the killer app for their headset that they need but as it currently stands, there's just too many technical flaws that's holding it back, including price
>>151760760Always good to know 100 billion dollars cannot fix your looks
>>151761148Regardless of what the shareholders think compared to WB, Ellison is losing funding and won't make good on what he promised the shareholders
>>151756796LEEEEETTTTSSSS GO FUCK PARAMOUNT AND FUCK TRUMP
>>151760491That's what I said
>>151761199Things just keep getting worse, don't they?
>>151761174The offer of 30 a share stands, SIF just swapped shells. The point of a hostile takeover is you can work with shareholders individually, and the shareholders are not going to go with management's please because they already know the government will block a Netflix merger
>>151761265It's literally a cash offerYou're copingReality sucks but you need to face it
Ellison, get off 4chan, you cuck. SpongeBob is about to bomb in theaters.
>>151761199Anon not only is VR never happening because it's incompatible with basic human comfort (surprise, people don't like being blind and deaf), it's double never happening because the parts that make headsets viable are multiplying in price tenfold
>>151760613Good
>>151761293>>151761114>>151761309YOU are coping, trumptard.
>>151756796>Article is about Warner Management begging shareholders not to accept Paramount's offer.>Morons who didn't read it think this means that the deal has been rejected.
