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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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jimbokun wrote: post #83
dylan604 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting as the Champions League is the most compelling thing for me to consider P+ subscription. Unfortunately for P+ it just hasn't been compelling enough. I feel for the Peacock subscription to watch EPL, but even with that subscription there are matches only on USA and maybe also on Telemundo. I can only imagine P+ doing similar, and I'm just not here for it

So far all the Champions League games have been available on the app. Serie A is a nice bonus, with a few other competitions as well. EPL requiring both Peacock and a cable subscription to watch all of the games is extremely annoying. But I do it anyway. All of those combined let me watch all the Arsenal games except FA and Carabao Cup.

I believe a combined Hulu+Disney+ESPN gets those, maybe. I know I've seen something via ESPN, but those would be the last 2 I pay attention

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by WorldMaker »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #30

I thought I read somewhere paramount is in survival mode, avoiding risky projects and focusing on reliable projects. This is surprising indeed. Amazon took MGM, maybe netflix can take over paramount after it takes over warner bros? I know people have strong opinions on this, but both from studios like warner and netflix, their quality has been subpar, i don't think this will change much in terms of risk taking. There…

Paramount sold themselves to Skydance who now get referred to as Paramount because Paramount is the older, stabler brand. That sale is generally considered to have pulled Paramount out of survival mode, though it will probably be at least a few more quarters before it the results are seen.

(Arguably, Skydance's ideas for Paramount are too similar to the weird Paramount and CBS divorce era, that I find it hard to believe Skydance is less wrong of a steward for Paramount than Paramount was before the consolidation. But a lot of that opinion comes from bias as a Star Trek fan and Skydance's approach seems to return to the semi-broken idea that Star Trek seems to be better as a film franchise than a TV franchise.)

Skydance owning both Paramount and Warner Brothers might be very concerning in terms of IP consolidation alone.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by WorldMaker »

sippeangelo wrote: post #75
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> thought I read somewhere paramount is in survival mode Paramount's multi-year sale process deserves an HBO miniseries. But at this point, it's a de facto LBO platform for the Ellisons.

But who's gonna produce that once Paramount owns HBO?

Apple TV will buy it from Sony.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by bsimpson »

sleepybrett wrote: post #89
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with the Netflix bid. Warner bros is being divided into the cable TV stations + discover channel stations and the movie studio and the backlog is separate. Netflix wants the movie studio + tv back catalog

the split is hbo+streaming platform on one side and pretty much everything else on the other (discovery, cablechannels, cnn)

That's conventionally called "studios+streaming" because the Warner Bros studio/brand is one of WBD's crown jewels. The way you've written it, someone could infer everything but HBO Max was going into "other." That's incorrect.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by bsimpson »

hinkley wrote: post #91
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with the Netflix bid. Warner bros is being divided into the cable TV stations + discover channel stations and the movie studio and the backlog is separate. Netflix wants the movie studio + tv back catalog

Because WB owns what is left of Newline, that would include LotR and The Hobbit.

"What's left"?

New Line has been part of Warner since they merged with TBS in the mid 90s.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by clumsysmurf »

moffers wrote: post #44
linhns wrote: post #29

Sounds like Paramount bosses are bidding in anger.

I think the political angle of this should not be discounted

Some context:

"Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing."

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-war...

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by WorldMaker »

glimshe wrote: post #70
ngcazz wrote: post #41

No matter who wins, we lose.

If you like going to a physical theater, a Paramount victory could be slightly less bad.

Maybe? Paramount was already deep in shuffling a lot of movies to Paramount+ exclusives, and new parent company Skydance seems to have first-look deals with both Apple TV and Netflix who may or may not ask for movie projects to be streaming exclusive.

(Apple TV is nearly as bad at theatrical runs as Netflix, though admittedly some of Apple's biggest "mistakes" are in presenting things beyond Oscar-bait such as Argyle that "box office flopped", but yet it is far better for physical theaters that they tried and as a fan of physical theaters I want to keep seeing them trying.)

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