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Inside Paramount-Netflix brawl for WBD
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WBD presented a chronology of events and meetings that occurred, leading to its deal to sell Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max to Netflix, following by David Ellison’s hostile takeover bid and the WBD board’s official rejection of the $30/share bid on Dec.
The battle for Warner Bros. Discovery spilled onto pages full of revelations big and small Wednesday, as the media giant defended the process of selecting Netflix as the winner in its auction. Company disclosures and a letter to shareholders from the board of directors explained the reasoning behind discarding Paramount as well as Comcast and
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Middle Eastern money raised questions about Paramount's WBD bid — but that's not why Netflix won
You might think the notion of Saudi money owning part of an American media giant would kill a deal. That's not why it's failed so far.
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Dems rip Paramount Skydance’s hostile WBD bid over Saudi- and Kushner-linked funding: report
Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) sent letter to board of WBD as well as to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday.
A pair of Democratic senators are calling for a review of a possible Paramount-WBD deal because of possible foreign involvement.
HBO owner's board accuses David Ellison-led company of misleading investors and reiterates support for Netflix takeover
Posting to his Truth Social account Tuesday, the president made it clear that the Ellisons are no friends of his. The family, who led Paramount to become the newest owners of CBS, have been pushing for a hostile takeover of WBD as Netflix nears closing a deal for the company's streaming and studios assets.
Photos of Netflix's Ted Sarandos & Greg Peters on the Warner Bros lot sure look like guys about to handed the keys to a iconic kingdom