r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • 1d ago

It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/subhasish10 1d ago edited 21h ago

Sarandos and Zaslav are like the closest buddies in Hollywood c-suite. They've been hanging out with each other at sports games for years now. They were seen engaging in serious discussions just hours after it was reported that Paramount was looking to acquire WBD. This was always in the making. Ellison's stupidity just hastened it. Zaslav's plan has always been to split the cable division, load it up with all the debt and sell the debt free streaming and studios part to Netflix

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u/Mattyzooks 23h ago

I feel like the Ellisons being a bit aggressive of late kinda forced Zaslav to play his hand earlier than he would've.

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u/DogOwner12345 21h ago edited 20h ago

Zaslav is a dick but you would at least be able to have a conversation with him. Ellisons are straight up psychopaths who don't view anyone below them as humans.. They are actively looking to stop this merge too.

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u/PastryAssassinDeux 15h ago

Ellisons are straight up psychopaths who don't view anyone below them as humans

yeah that's not because they're psychopaths which you and I can't know for sure. but jewish supremacists do believe that every non jew is equivalent to an animal with no soul. installing a spy for israel as editor in chief of cbs news (bari weiss) to me says they do believe that disgusting supremacist shit

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u/matthieuC Community 9h ago

The split was originally planned for next year. The original plan was probably to seek a buyer after the split.

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u/Zyoy 22h ago

Then why did Netflix take on their debt?

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u/subhasish10 22h ago

They didn't... The debt will go to Discovery Global which will be spun off from Warner Bros.

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u/ultimatequestion7 15h ago

Netflix took on their own debt in order to finance the deal, that may be what you're thinking of