{"id":2086098,"date":"2025-10-12T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2086098"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:28:13","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-rejects-paramounts-initial-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/warner-bros-discovery-rejects-paramounts-initial-takeover-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount\u2019s Initial Takeover Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> deflected Paramount Skydance\u2019s initial takeover approach because the per-share price is too low, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0312159\/\">Bloomberg<\/a> News.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>\u2019s initial price of around $20 per share, made in recent weeks, was not attractive to Wbd, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0312159\/\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Warner Bros. Discovery stock was trading just over $17 at Friday\u2019s market close.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Paramount nor Wbd immediately responded to a request for comment sent Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>New Paramount chief <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> is seeking alternatives that could include increasing the share price, Bloomberg noted. He could also appeal to shareholders directly or find additional financing through a partner like asset manager Apollo Global Management, with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery deflected Paramount Skydance\u2019s initial takeover approach because the per-share price is too low, according to Bloomberg News. Paramount\u2019s initial price of around $20 per share, made in recent weeks, was not attractive to Wbd, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Warner Bros. Discovery stock was trading just over $17 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2086099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2086098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Warner-Bros-Discovery-Rejects-Paramounts-Initial-Takeover-Bid.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086100,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086098\/revisions\/2086100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}