Warner Bros. Discovery deems Paramount Skydance offer superior to Netflix, starting 4-day matching clock

by Georgeika

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  1. God fucking damn it. Come on, Netflix. Match the bid and put these idiots away for good.

    (I hate that WB is being sold. But I trust Netflix more with the assets. Isn’t that just sad?)

  2. Paramount is nearly leveraged to the max with their offer. Netflix can clear it and then some. They already have a mind set that Paramount’s bidding is performative and they aren’t a real threat. So they will likely up their bid again and clear whatever Paramount is offering.

  3. Netflix will match or raise and Zazlav will laugh all the way to the bank. David Ellison is a wasting his dad’s time and patience with this tantrum

  4. This is bad.

    I mean, either outcome is bad.

    But the breakup fee Paramount Skydance offered related to regulator denial is a tell. They know it’ll be approved. Trump wants CNN brought to heel, and that’s something the Ellisons will do for him (whereas Netflix would just spin off the cable nets like NBCU did with theirs).

  5. Paramount: reports half billion revenue loss.

    Also Paramount: we have enough money to buy WB.

  6. Would tell warner bros to take it then if I were Netflix. They don’t want to go to paramount, but they’ve allowed paramount to stick around too long and are now hoping Netflix saves them from that fate. 

  7. Pure_Incident2807 on

    Netflix sent out the email about the merger like months ago how is this still going lol

  8. “I told you she would suck so hard that you would see your soul leave your body, didn’t I??”

  9. wowlock_taylan on

    All these mergers need to be blocked and split again.

    Enough is enough. Especially from fascist supporters.

  10. Isn’t this the better outcome for movies (and theaters) in general? Paramount is a legacy movie studio with deep ties to the industry while Netflix is just a factory for generic slop content.

    I feel WB IP is in better hands with Paramount, so I don’t get the hate in this thread? Please enlighten me.

  11. Honestly, I do not understand Paramount’s position here. They are basically already at their max offer, they don’t have any flexibility left, they are already in massive amounts of debt. Even if you take into account Ellison’s MAGA agenda that even doesn’t make a lick of sense because he could just buy CNN from Netflix. And if he did? The impact wouldn’t be as great as he or others think it would be. The majority of the U.S. population beyond boomers doesn’t even watch the news anymore. So if CNN went full hard right, it wouldn’t make that significant of a difference on how the other percentage of people vote. Paramount should quit while they are ahead and quell the bleeding on their own end.

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