What’s a “Subscription?” Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN Find Out the Hard Way

Dish Network leveraged ambiguity around the term in licensing deals with Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney to offer ...

Larry Ellison Agrees to Personally Guarantee Paramount Bid for Warner Bros. in Revised Offer

The company also agreed to raise its termination fee $5.8 billion to match Netflix, and extended the end date for the offer ...
Comic Book Movie

Netflix Officially Announces Acquisition Of Warner Bros.—And The DC Universe—For $82.7 Billion

Well, it's official. Netflix has announced that it has entered into a "definitive agreement" with Warner Bros. Discovery to acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and ...
The New Yorker

What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies

The film-industry panic sparked by the news of Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. has been immediate and intense, and in the days immediately after, it was hard to find anyone not named ...
The New York Times

Paramount Says Money Is No Object. Warner Bros. Isn’t Convinced.

Larry Ellison is backstopping Paramount’s bid for Warner Brothers, but Warner Brothers is concerned that the billionaire has not provided a personal guarantee to pay. By Lauren Hirsch As Paramount ...
Wired

Buying Warner Bros. Gives Netflix What It’s Always Needed: An Identity

The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century’s worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to Game of Thrones. It also ends the streaming wars. According to Paul Erickson, a media ...
The New York Times

Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $83 Billion Deal to Create a Streaming Giant

The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service. By Brooks Barnes Lauren Hirsch and Nicole Sperling ...
New York Post

Warner Bros. Discovery gets mostly cash offer from Netflix in second round of bidding

Warner Bros. Discovery has received a second round of bids, including a mostly cash offer from Netflix, in an auction that could conclude in the coming days or weeks, a source familiar with the matter ...

Netflix and Paramount are fighting over Warner Bros. Discovery. Here’s the regulatory outlook

Warner Bros. Discovery is caught in a battle between Netflix and Paramount and chances are, it will be a long, bumpy regulatory road ahead.
USA Today

Paramount makes $108.4 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros. Discovery in a last-ditch effort to outbid Netflix and create a media powerhouse that would challenge the ...
Los Angeles Times

With new bids, Warner Bros. Discovery looks to narrow the auction field

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Warner Bros. Discovery’s winnowing of bidders is expected to accelerate this week. Monday marks the deadline for a ...
TechRepublic

Why Netflix’s 72B Warner Bros. Deal Could Change How You Watch TV

Why Netflix’s 72B Warner Bros. Deal Could Change How You Watch TV Your email has been sent Netflix’s $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery reshapes Hollywood, uniting HBO, DC, and major film ...