4 h. ago Paramount makes stunning new bid to buy Warner Bros with $40BILLION guarantee from mega

Larry Ellison, the billionaire father of Paramount CEO David Ellison, put up the sum as a guarantee on Monday following complaints from Warner's board.

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8 h. ago Larry Ellison gives personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

WBD had urged shareholders to reject $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, following $82.7bn Netflix deal The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Warner Bros Discovery, amid an extraordinary corporate battle over the entertainment giant.WBD urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount – which is controlled by the Ellisons – last week, having agreed to sell its storied movie studios, HBO cable network and streaming service to Netflix in a $82.7bn deal earlier this month. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Larry Ellison provides personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

WBD had urged shareholders to reject $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, following $82.7bn Netflix deal The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Warner Bros Discovery, amid an extraordinary corporate battle over the entertainment giant.WBD urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount – which is controlled by the Ellisons – last week, having agreed to sell its storied movie studios, HBO cable network and streaming service to Netflix in a $82.7bn deal earlier this month. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Larry Ellison gives $40bn personal backing to Warner Bros Discovery bid

Oracle co-founder has agreed to backstop Paramount’s $108bn hostile bid personally

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19 h. ago What David Ellison can learn from a hostile bid battle of his father

The saga of Oracle’s PeopleSoft takeover might show what is needed to win Warner Bros Discovery

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32 h. ago Pierce Brosnan says Netflix’s ‘unsettling’ Warner Bros deal ‘doesn’t feel culturally right’

‘Thursday Murder Club’ actor said he has witnessed cinemas ‘evaporating from the landscape’ where he lives in both California and London

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61 h. ago How Sinners became the most culturally important film of 2025

Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed horror blockbuster had people talking all year, proving industry naysayers wrong and breaking various recordsIt was the film that was supposed to destroy Hollywood: a vampire horror about life and times in the Jim Crow south peopled by a majority Black cast, and shot on Imax 70mm. Ryan Coogler, the acclaimed director who rose to prominence steering Marvel’s colossal Black Panther franchise, was thought to be out of his depth for trying to midwife a script he himself said he cobbled together in two months. Warner Bros, the studio fronting the film’s near $100m budget, was supposedly out of its mind for not only throwing that much money behind the project, but further agreeing to singularly favorable authorship deal terms that gave him control over the film’ final cut and full rights over the film after 25 years. Hollywood machers were convinced the film would never make money and that Warner Bros’ big gamble “could be the end of the studio system”....

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3 d. ago Warner Bros sale: The $100bn battle for the soul of Hollywood

The bidding war for Warner Bros will determine the future of film — will London escape the fallout?

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5 d. ago Warner Bros Discovery urges shareholders to reject Paramount takeover bid

Bosses at Warner Bros, which makes franchises such as Harry Potter and Batman, said the proposed deal from Paramount was ‘inadequate’.

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5 d. ago Warner Bros asks investors to reject takeover bid from Paramount Skydance

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5 d. ago Warner Bros Discovery urges shareholders to reject Paramount’s $108.4bn takeover bid

WBD had agreed to sell to Netflix but Paramount swiftly countered with an all-cash offer, which WBD’s board is calling ‘inadequate’Warner Bros Discovery has urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover offer from Paramount Skydance, branding it “inadequate” amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the legacy media conglomerate.WBD agreed to sell its storied movie studios, HBO cable network and streaming service to Netflix in a $82.7bn deal earlier this month, setting the stage for a seismic shift in Hollywood’s industrial landscape. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Warner Bros board urges investors to reject Paramount’s ‘inferior’ $108bn bid

David Ellison’s offer provides ‘untenable degree of risk’ and ‘potential downside’ for WBD shareholders

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5 d. ago Jared Kushner pulls out of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

A private equity firm owned by Jared Kushner says it's no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros

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6 d. ago Warner Bros Discovery likely to stick with Netflix and reject $108.4 billion Paramount bid

Securing Warner Bros Discovery’s portfolio would grant the successful bidder a significant advantage in the ongoing streaming wars

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6 d. ago 'Traumatic' religious drama with 92% Rotten Tomatoes score is leaving Netflix

The film has been described as 'unsettling but beautiful' and will be available to stream on Netflix for a limited time only.

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6 d. ago Wall Street rainmakers scrap for windfall from Warner Bros deal

Clash between Netflix and Paramount for Hollywood studio caps big year for dealmakers

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7 d. ago Dylan Brosnan steals the spotlight in London: Pierce Brosnan’s son shines as model and style star

Dylan Brosnan steals the spotlight in London: Pierce Brosnan’s son shines as model and style star  HOLA

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7 d. ago Netflix to buy Warner Bros – but what does that mean for film and TV?

The lucrative deal is set to change the face of Hollywood as we know it

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7 d. ago Netflix has bought Warner Bros – but what does that mean for film and TV?

The lucrative deal is set to change the face of Hollywood as we know it

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7 d. ago Why insiders fear Netflix's blockbuster battle to buy Hollywood's most powerful film studio will lead to the death of the big screen

Warner Bros has accepted his $83billion (£63 billion) bid - which has still to be approved by the US government - to buy most of the company.

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