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 ...

5 days ago - Paramount in recent days launched a hostile takeover bid to acquire Warner Bros.

5 days ago - Then it announced a deal to sell the most valuable parts of its business - its studio and streaming divisions - to Netflix instead. Undeterred, Paramount chief executive David Ellison launched a hostile takeover bid, taking his suit directly to ...

1 day ago - On December 8, 2025, Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, announcing an all-cash offer valued at $30 per share, representing roughly $108.4 billion in enterprise value.

1 week ago - David Ellison-run Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros.

1 week 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 ...

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.

Paramount, said: "WBD shareholders deserve an opportunity to consider our superior all-cash offer for their shares in the entire company. Our public offer, which is on the same terms we provided to the Warner Bros. Discovery Board of Directors in private, provides superior value, and a more certain and quicker path to completion.

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.

1 week ago - Unlike Netflix, Paramount is also offering to buy the cable television assets of Warner Bros. It is the same bid that Warner Brothers had previously rejected in favour of the offer from Netflix. Paramount executives said their offer is worth about $18 billion US more than the competing bid from Netflix...

28 minutes ago - 8, when Paramount announced an all-cash, $30 per share offer for all of WBC. The offer came days after streaming giant Netflix said it had reached a deal to buy WBD's film studio and streaming service HBO Max.

1 week ago - Paramount’s bid came after Netflix announced a deal for $72 billion — or $27.75 a share — for a big chunk of the company: Warner Bros. film and television studios, which hold the rights to Batman, Bugs Bunny and Harry Potter, the expansive ...

1 hour ago - Its offer is financed by $41 billion in new equity, which is backed by the Ellison family and RedBird Capital, and $54 billion of debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo.

4 days ago - Warner Bros. Discovery said last week it would sell much of its business to Netflix for $83 billion, deeming its bid superior to Paramount’s offer to acquire the entire company. In making that assessment, the Warner Bros.

3 days ago - Meanwhile, Paramount Skydance's $108bn(£81bn) hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros includes backing from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and a fund started by Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law.

1 week ago - For its bid for Warner Bros, Paramount dropped Chinese tech firm Tencent (0700.HK), opens new tab from the investor group and secured a waiver on all governance rights from the remaining outside investors, a structure it said puts the deal outside ...

1 day ago - 5, Netflix announced a definitive agreement to acquire Warner Bros. – including its studios, HBO Max and HBO. But before the reeling market could catch its breath, Paramount launched a cash tender offer to claim all of Warner Bros.

4 days ago - Paramount is preparing to bid to buy Warner Bros.