Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

cnbc.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–310 of 424 posts

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#301

Post by NBJack »

bananaflag wrote: post #272
AlexandrB wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like a bad example. The problem with Episode 8 was not lack of creativity. Episode 7 was a complete retread of "A New Hope" and a bigger offender. At least blue Jedi milk is new .

Episode 8 was a retread of Empire Strikes Back (ships chase through empty space while the main character trains with the old master on a wild planet). It seemed subversive just because ESB was subversive relative to ANH.

Complete with "this guy will help us" to "oh no, they betrayed us!"

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#302

Post by alostpuppy »

digitaltrees wrote: post #298
dabockster wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…

Sounds like an opportunity to open grocery stores.

I suspect in a lot of those places there is only the one supply chain.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#303

Post by nake89 »

dabockster wrote: post #177
ClikeX wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real people work in this industry, though. A merger of this size is bound to come with some layoffs and canceled projects. It's not as bad as food scarcity, of course. But it can do some collateral damage.

That, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8.

Me and my wife were Star Wars fans. The last Star Wars media we watched was episode 8. I almost walked out the theater.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#304

Post by fragmede »

dabockster wrote: post #166
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like it. $2.8bn by Warner Brothers to Netflix [1]. If the vote looks close, Paramount would be expected to raise their bid to cover that cost. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312525... 8.3(a)

The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…

money is just this construct that we invented to distribute limited resources. why are we doing this?

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#305

Post by renegade-otter »

digitaltrees wrote: post #294
renegade-otter wrote: post #275

Jared Kushner's firm? I am pretty sure about who is going to win....

the fact that this is credible should scare every entrepreneur. If you cant compete on an even playing field because some people have direct government involvement in tipping the scales we are neither a free market economy nor a democracy.

Americans do not like when someone uses the words "fascism" and "oligarchy". It's jarring to think that is even possible in the United States but a) we are here and b) the two have traditionally gone hand-in-hand.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#306

Post by p_j_w »

sophrosyne42 wrote: post #229
mmooss wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That says nothing about this particular situation. Written language has been a thing for 5,000 years, and it's used for this bid, so nothing remarkable here ...

I guess the OP is just making an unrelated comment, because it almost sounds like he thinks that a hostile bid is evidence that the US has Ukraine-levels of corruption. Leaving aside the odd time period (Ukraine was much less corrupt pre-war than it was pre-Maidan, not to speak of its other more corrupt neighbor), the fact that hostile bids have been around for a long time in the US is good evidence to suggest that t…

You've completely missed the point. It's not that there's a hostile bid, it's the conditions of this particular hostile bid pointing to corruption.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#307

Post by jachee »

fragmede wrote: post #304
dabockster wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…

money is just this construct that we invented to distribute limited resources. why are we doing this?

The Invisible Hand demands its tribute. It’s giving us the Invisible Middle Finger again.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#308

Post by brookst »

alostpuppy wrote: post #302
digitaltrees wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an opportunity to open grocery stores.

I suspect in a lot of those places there is only the one supply chain.

UNfI is the big distriubor, Kehei is second. Both serve essentially all grocery stores.

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#309

Post by themafia »

digitaltrees wrote: post #298
dabockster wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…

Sounds like an opportunity to open grocery stores.

So when it's not happening as readily as we expect what do we do next?

Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

#310

Post by pantalaimon »

digitaltrees wrote: post #298
dabockster wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…

Sounds like an opportunity to open grocery stores.

Aldi is always looking for property
Post reply on HN