{"id":2285585,"date":"2026-02-17T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285585"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:42:11","slug":"netflix-blasts-ongoing-distraction-from-paramount-as-warner-bros-asks-for-david-ellisons-best-and-final-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/netflix-blasts-ongoing-distraction-from-paramount-as-warner-bros-asks-for-david-ellisons-best-and-final-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Blasts \u2018Ongoing Distraction\u2019 From Paramount as Warner Bros. Asks for David Ellison\u2019s \u2018Best and Final\u2019 Offer"},"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\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> took aim at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> on Tuesday after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0885467\/\">Discovery<\/a> said it would give <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> until Feb. 23 to submit his \u201cbest and final\u201d offer for the entire company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the robust and highly competitive strategic review process, Netflix has consistently taken a constructive, responsive approach with Wbd, in stark contrast to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\">Paramount Skydance<\/a> (Psky),\u201d Netflix said in a statement. \u201cWhile we are confident that our transaction provides superior value and certainty, we recognize the ongoing distraction for Wbd stockholders and the broader entertainment industry caused by Psky\u2019s antics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, we granted Wbd a narrow seven-day waiver of certain obligations under our merger agreement to allow them to&#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>Netflix took aim at Paramount on Tuesday after Warner Bros. Discovery said it would give David Ellison until Feb. 23 to submit his \u201cbest and final\u201d offer for the entire company. \u201cThroughout the robust and highly competitive strategic review process, Netflix has consistently taken a constructive, responsive approach with Wbd, in stark contrast to Paramount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285586,"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-2285585","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\/02\/Netflix-Blasts-\u2018Ongoing-Distraction-From-Paramount-as-Warner-Bros-Asks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285585","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=2285585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285587,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285585\/revisions\/2285587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}