{"id":2217417,"date":"2025-12-31T05:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2217417"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:29:33","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-board-poised-to-reject-paramounts-latest-offer-stay-the-course-with-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/warner-bros-discovery-board-poised-to-reject-paramounts-latest-offer-stay-the-course-with-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Board Poised to Reject Paramount\u2019s Latest Offer, Stay the Course With Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The board of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> is poised to reject the amended takeover offer fielded by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\">Paramount Skydance<\/a> last week as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> keeps up his pursuit of the assets he sees as crucial to building a 21st century Hollywood heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that the Wbd board was expected to reject the amended offer that was made with fanfare by Paramount Skydance on Dec. 22. Wbd has already struck an agreement to merge with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> in a deal valued at more than $80 billion.<\/p>\n<p>But Paramount Skydance hasn\u2019t given up and is making a tender offer to Wbd shareholders. As this tug-of-war has played out in press releases and conference calls and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Wbd shares have soared more than 170% this year, albeit shares were at a low ebb, having traded under $10 for most of 2024. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0312159\/\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported the Wbd board will meet next week to formally&#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>The board of Warner Bros. Discovery is poised to reject the amended takeover offer fielded by Paramount Skydance last week as David Ellison keeps up his pursuit of the assets he sees as crucial to building a 21st century Hollywood heavyweight. Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that the Wbd board was expected to reject the amended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2217418,"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-2217417","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\/12\/Warner-Bros-Discovery-Board-Poised-to-Reject-Paramounts-Latest-Offer.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217417","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=2217417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217419,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217417\/revisions\/2217419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}