{"id":169238,"date":"2025-12-08T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/paramount-tries-to-swipe-warner-bros-from-netflix-with-a-hostile-takeover\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:36:16","slug":"paramount-tries-to-swipe-warner-bros-from-netflix-with-a-hostile-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/paramount-tries-to-swipe-warner-bros-from-netflix-with-a-hostile-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/netflixs-72b-wb-acquisition-confounds-the-future-of-movie-theaters-streaming\/\">Netflix won the bidding war<\/a> for Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s (WBD\u2019s) streaming and movie studio businesses last week. But Paramount Skydance isn\u2019t relenting on its dreams of owning WBD and is pushing forward with a hostile takeover bid.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Netflix announced that it had agreed to pay an equity value of $72 billion, or an approximate total enterprise value of $82.7 billion, for WBD\u2019s streaming and film businesses, as well as its film and TV libraries. The deal includes HBO and the HBO Max streaming service but not WBD\u2019s cable channels, which are to be split off ahead of the acquisition into a separate company called Discovery Global. Netflix said WBD\u2019s split should conclude in Q3 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount has different plans, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/paramount-says-it-could-get-antitrust-approval-for-wbd-before-netflix\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/paramount-says-it-could-get-antitrust-approval-for-wbd-before-netflix\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s (WBD\u2019s) streaming and movie studio businesses last week. But Paramount Skydance isn\u2019t relenting on its dreams of owning WBD and is pushing forward with a hostile takeover bid. On Friday, Netflix announced that it had agreed to pay an equity value of $72 billion, or an approximate total enterprise value of $82.7 billion, for WBD\u2019s streaming and film businesses, as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/paramount-tries-to-swipe-warner-bros-from-netflix-with-a-hostile-takeover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. 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