{"id":2235095,"date":"2026-01-14T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2235095"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:44:10","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-slams-paramount-motion-to-expedite-lawsuit-for-hostile-takeover-exercise-in-urgency-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/warner-bros-discovery-slams-paramount-motion-to-expedite-lawsuit-for-hostile-takeover-exercise-in-urgency-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Slams Paramount Motion to Expedite Lawsuit for Hostile Takeover: \u2018Exercise in Urgency Theatre\u2019"},"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> knocked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>\u2019s effort to expedite the proceedings for its lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery as an \u201cexercise in urgency theatre \u2014ringing a fire alarm in the absence of any flames or even smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> sued on Monday in an effort to obtain more information about how Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s board came to the conclusion that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s $83 billion deal for the company\u2019s streaming and studio assets is superior to its $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid. It also asked that a judge expedite the proceedings ahead of the Jan. 21 expiration of Paramount\u2019s tender offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParamount contends that an expedited trial is needed&#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 knocked Paramount\u2019s effort to expedite the proceedings for its lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery as an \u201cexercise in urgency theatre \u2014ringing a fire alarm in the absence of any flames or even smoke.\u201d David Ellison sued on Monday in an effort to obtain more information about how Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2235096,"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-2235095","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\/2026\/01\/Warner-Bros-Discovery-Slams-Paramount-Motion-to-Expedite-Lawsuit-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235095","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=2235095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235097,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235095\/revisions\/2235097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}