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.

3 days ago - Disaster, catastrophe and nightmare. That's how Hollywood's creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to buy the historic studio and tinsel town braces for more upheaval and job losses.

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 ...

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.

1 week ago - Paramount on Monday mounted a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, a brazen attempt to secure a Hollywood prize snatched away by Netflix last week. Netflix announced an $83 billion deal to buy a big part of Warner Bros.

5 days ago - So far, Warner Bros has spurned its proposals. 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 ...

20 hours ago - 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.

4 days ago - The top question right now: Is Netflix still buying Warner Bros.? Paramount’s $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.

6 days ago - Netflix then plans to buy the Warner ... markets. But Paramount, which lost out to Netflix in a bidding war, is still pursuing WBD by urging shareholders to accept its $30-per-share bid for the entire company....

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 - 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.

1 week ago - 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) ("Paramount"), today announced it has commenced an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Warner Bros.

1 week ago - David Ellison's Paramount is making another play to acquire Warner Bros. as Hollywood's biggest acquisition battle in years rages on.

6 days ago - Paramount has launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Warner Bros. Discovery ("WBD") for $30.00 per share. We believe our offer provides superior value through a simple all-cash structure and a quicker, clearer ...

3 days ago - But when Trump was asked on Sunday about Netflix’s $82.7bn (£61.8bn) deal to acquire the studio and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery – the media company whose assets run the gamut from Batman and Casablanca to The Sopranos, Succession and CNN – he didn’t hesitate to say he would be “involved” in the review process for the deal. Days later a media conglomerate with close ties to his administration, Paramount Skydance, the company behind the Paramount Pictures movie studios, CBS US TV network and Channel 5 in the UK, countered with a hostile $108bn offer for the company.