max netflix Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. (at least parts of it) in $83 billion deal

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Holy mother forking shirt balls.

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros. in an $82.7-billion deal that will transform Hollywood

A theater owner trade group immediately blasted Netflix's nearly $83-billion deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO. Netflix has long bypassed movie theaters, instead releasing films onto its streaming platform.

www.latimes.com

• Netflix agrees to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for $72 billion, gaining iconic franchises like Batman, Harry Potter and Friends alongside its hit originals. Netflix will also take on more than $10 billion in Warner Bros. debt, pushing the deal’s enterprise value to $82.7 billion.
• The deal would give Netflix over 420 million streaming subscribers worldwide, making it far larger than any competitor in the streaming market.
• Industry groups and anti-trust experts oppose the deal, citing threats to movie theaters and competition for creative talent in Hollywood.

I do not look forward to the day I need to subscribe to Netflix/HBO/Warner/Paramount/Mazda/Kelloggs+, or some such shit.

 

[Free]

Why am I suddenly for this acquisition?

 

[detrius]

Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month

theonion.com

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month

theonion.com

The Onion needs to stop giving evil people ideas!

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Erich Templar]

Paramount joins the fray:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

 

[Isabeau]

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe the Harry Potter and DC universes will prove excellent additions to our slate...

theonion.com

 

[Noodles]

You know whats amusng.

The original stories all.over basicallynwan with Netflix owning it as if its a done deal.

 

[Lexxi]

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe the Harry Potter and DC universes will prove excellent additions to our slate...

theonion.com

G/O Media (The Onion's owner) should buy Warner Bros. *nods*

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

G/O Media (The Onion's owner) should buy Warner Bros. *nods*

I wish, but we live in the worst timeline.

 

[Noodles]

G/O Media (The Onion's owner) should buy Warner Bros. *nods*

Did they ever manage to get a hold of Infowars?

 

[Free]

Did they ever manage to get a hold of Infowars?

Last month.

The Onion, with the Support of Sandy Hook Families, Acquires Infowars and Announces Everytown for Gun Safety as Exclusive Advertiser for Launch, Along with Multi-Year Agreement

Purchase Comes with Full Support of Sandy Hook Families Involved in the Successful and Historic Litigation Against Alex Jones that Won a $1.4 billion Verdict Everytown for Gun Safety Signs …

www.everytown.org

 

[Free]

It's hard to be on a side in this, but...

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”

Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says.

arstechnica.com

The Warner Bros. Discovery board has unanimously voted to rebuff Paramount’s $108.4 billion offer and urged shareholders to reject the hostile takeover bid. The board is continuing to support Netflix’s pending $82.7 billion purchase of its streaming and movie studios businesses along with a separate spinoff of the Warner Bros. cable TV division.

Warner Bros. called the Paramount bid “illusory” in a presentation for shareholders today, saying the offer requires an “extraordinary amount of debt financing” and other terms that make it less likely to be completed than a Netflix merger. It would be the largest leveraged buyout ever, “with $87B of total pro forma gross debt,” and is “effectively a one-sided option for PSKY [Paramount Skydance] as the offer can be terminated or amended by PSKY at any time,” Warner Bros. said.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Warner Bros. called the Paramount bid “illusory” in a presentation for shareholders today, saying the offer requires an “extraordinary amount of debt financing” and other terms that make it less likely to be completed than a Netflix merger. It would be the largest leveraged buyout ever, “with $87B of total pro forma gross debt,” and is “effectively a one-sided option for PSKY [Paramount Skydance] as the offer can be terminated or amended by PSKY at any time,” Warner Bros. said.

OMG. Well, begrudging kudos to whomever wrote that offer. "We'll give you a million bazillion dollars in [currently imaginary] money unless we can't borrow that much, but we'll try really hard to borrow it. Honest. And if, for some weird reason, it turns out we can't borrow more than anyone sane thinks this company is worth, well, you'll take whatever we can get. But, hey, that would never happen, probably. Just sign here ...."

Somewhere, someone had a moment when they said, "Holy shit, guys, they're actually considering it!"

 

[Free]

Paramount is acting just like Trump would: Won't do like I want? Lawsuit! So predictable.

Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate.

WBD calls Paramount's lawsuit "meritless" and its offer deficient.

arstechnica.com

 

[Free]

Looks like the unholy alliance of Paramount/Skydance has won out. Netflix dropped out of the contest.

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

arstechnica.com

Goodbye HBO. Ciao, CNN.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Did they ever manage to get a hold of Infowars?

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