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Reuters
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Warner Bros fight heats up with $108 billion hostile bid from Paramount | Reuters
4 days ago - Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), opens new tab on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab, in a last-ditch effort to outbid Netflix and create a media powerhouse that ...
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Paramount
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PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE | Paramount
1 week ago - Paramount"), today announced it has commenced an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of · Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
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Warner Bros. Discovery says it will "carefully" review Paramount Skydance's $30-per-share acquisition offer and issue a decision within 10 business days.
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Paramount Says Money Is No Object. Warner Bros. Isn’t Convinced.
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Paramount Launches Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. : movies
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BBC
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Netflix and Paramount battle for Warner Bros. Who is likely to win?
5 days ago - Netflix is offering to pay $23.25 per share, and give existing Warner Bros investors a stake in the new company - a mix of cash and equity it says is worth about $27.75 per share. Paramount, by contrast, says it wants control of the entire company, including the firm's traditional pay-TV networks, which are seen as a declining business.
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Forbes
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Is Netflix Buying Warner Bros.? Where The Deal Stands After Paramount’s Hostile Bid
4 days ago - The top question right now: Is Netflix still buying Warner Bros.? Paramount’s $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
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Al Jazeera
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Paramount’s Warner Bros Discovery bid faces conflict of interest concerns | Media News | Al Jazeera
Lawmakers were concerned that Netflix’s offer would limit competition in Hollywood, while Paramount-Skydance’s would impact how news channels like CNN cover the Trump administration [File: Daniel Cole/Reuters] ... Warner Bros Discovery’s future is in the spotlight amid a hostile bid by Paramount-Skydance to take over the storied media conglomerate that owns CBS, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and major movie studios, days after it agreed to a deal with streaming giant Netflix.
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Yahoo!
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Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion offer by Netflix
6 days ago - Emerging just days after top Warner managers agreed to Netflix's $72 billion purchase, the Paramount bid seeks to go over the heads of those leaders by appealing directly to Warner shareholders with more money — $77.9 billion — and a plan to buy all of Warner's business, including the cable business that Netflix does not want.
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CNN
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Paramount launches a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery | CNN Business
1 week ago - Paramount has gone straight to Warner Bros. Discovery’s shareholders with an all-cash offer in an extraordinary endeavor to gain control of Hollywood’s most sought-after prize — a bid that Netflix beat on Friday.
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Wikipedia
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Proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. - Wikipedia
11 hours ago - Discovery, on December 8, 2025 directly to its investors. Paramount's offer values WBD at $108.4 billion at $30 per share. The move has widely been viewed as a hostile takeover and WBD said it would take several weeks to review it, while also evaluating its previous agreement with Netflix. Warner Bros.
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CBC News
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Paramount Skydance makes $108B US hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix move | CBC
1 week ago - Duration 2:38Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's TV and film studios and streaming division for $72 billion US. If the deal gets regulatory approval, it would shift the media landscape, and some movie theatre companies are voicing ...
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Hollywood Reporter
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It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros.
1 week ago - It’s a bidding war. David Ellison says his Paramount is going on the offensive, launching a $108.4 billion hostile offer “backed by my family” along with RedBird Capital and multiple wealth funds to take over all of Warner Bros.
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Global News
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Paramount makes hostile bid for Warner Bros. days after Netflix’s $72B deal - National | Globalnews.ca
1 week ago - Paramount said Monday that it going straight to Warner Bros. shareholders with a $30 per share in cash offer for the entirety of Warner Bros.
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The Guardian
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Paramount launches $108.4bn hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery | Business | The Guardian
1 week ago - David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is not giving up in its aggressive campaign to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), launching a hostile bid for the entertainment company despite the announcement on Friday that Netflix had agreed to buy its studio and streaming operation.
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CNBC
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Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD 'to finish what we started,' CEO Ellison tells CNBC
1 week ago - On Friday, Netflix announced a deal to acquire WBD's studio and streaming assets for a combination of cash and stock, valued at $27.75 per WBD share, or $72 billion. Paramount had been bidding for the entirety of Warner Bros.
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BBC
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Paramount launches rival bid for Warner Bros Discovery
Paramount, which is backed by the billionaire Ellison family, said it was making a direct offer to shareholders of $30 (£22.50) per share to scoop up the whole of Warner Bros, including its traditional television networks.
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Reddit
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r/business on Reddit: Paramount Says Money Is No Object. Warner Bros. Isn’t Convinced.
4 days ago - Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year ... Paramount Skydance reportedly preparing takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery | Media conglomerate putting together majority cash offer for WBD backed by ultra-rich Ellison family, reports say
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Variety
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Paramount Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Valued at $108 Billion, Seeking to Derail Netflix’s Deal
1 week ago - Discovery revealed their binding agreement Friday under which Netflix would buy Warner Bros.’s studio operations, HBO and HBO Max for $72 billion (with an enterprise value of $82.7 billion). According to Paramount, its all-cash offer equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion (including assumption of debt) with an equity value of $77.9 billion.