>Skydance’s market value has dropped below $40 billion — down from the nearly $89 billion its predecessor companies were worth combined.>Warner Bros. Discovery was valued at $77.7 billion and Paramount Skydance at around $11 billion on October 5, their final day of trading on Nasdaq. Boy, who would've thought that going into debt to buy more debt was a bad idea
graveyard of shit that didn't survive the streaming wars
>>155924412Out of curiosity, what would happen if it completely broke without bail-out?
>>155924491The assets would be assumed by the debtors, most likely to be split apart and sold off piece by piece to try and recoup some of the cost of the debt.Also lots of people would probably lose their jobs.
>>155924555>Also lots of people would probably lose their jobsGood
>>155924555Imagine if Disney bought DC Comics
>>155924737I can't imagine Disney would want em. I don't know if Disney would want anything WB has.I think Universal would absorb most of the assets. Netflix and Amazon would pick up a few. Disney may, MAY, pick up some Hanna Barbera or CN or Nick stuff, but that's a big maybe.
>>155924852Why did Disney buy Fox, then?
>>155924852Harry Potter
>>155924737Batman is the only valuable piece of DC
>>155924412Looks like they were extremely over-evaluated then.
>>155925024public domain doesn't mean shit anymore thanks exactly to Disney. Waiting a decade just for the weird proto Batman and none of his rogues or supporting characters won't cut it
>>155924412The Ellison dynasty has a networth of more than $150 billion.I think they'll be fine.
>>155924885To reclaim the rights to the X-men and Fantastic Four movies. You seriously can't be this stupid.
>>155924915Universal is 100% getting Harry Potter. They already own the theme park rights and Disney wants none of the smoke associated with Rowling.
>>155924412I love this for those red hats and Jews.
>>155924412did it ever occur to you guys that billionaires want media not for profit but as a form of control over the masses?why do you think Bezos bought Washington Post or why Elon bought Twitter?i can already imagine a billionaire nigger trying to buy 4chan or reddit to exert control over people.
>>155925234Reddit is already own by multiple billionaires and has been for awhile now.
>>155925234>did it ever occur to you guys that billionaires want media not for profit but as a form of control over the masses?This is ironically why it's worth less now, because anyone who buys in to get said control will have a harder time actually leveraging that control.WB was worth something as a propaganda tool, but it's worth a lot less as someone else's propaganda tool.
>>155924885A few reasons. It cleared up a few lingering rights issues for Marvel and Star Wars. It also heavily bolstered Disney+. Those were the biggest reasons.
>>155925234Here's the thing about getting super fucking rich.It stops being about the money and starts being about the next chance to say "I won"Remember Notch? Developer of Minecraft? Reached the absolute top of the world and then spiraled into a fucking depression well before his cancellation because he had nothing left to do?That's a lot of these guys. They don't even want to control the masses to protect themselves. They want to control the masses to say they control the masses.It's why they're doing unprofitable shit like AI and a neo-space race or colonizing the moon or mars or whatever.Also, buying 4chan or even reddit is kinda useless this point in the game.I'd buy Discord and slowly but surely increase the fees and backend "rules" for an "official listed" server. Trying to find a way to create a good meme ecosystem.
