{"id":2286524,"date":"2026-02-17T23:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286524"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:04:15","slug":"will-warner-bros-discovery-opening-up-merger-talks-again-finally-bring-some-clarity-to-the-paramount-vs-netflix-back-and-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-warner-bros-discovery-opening-up-merger-talks-again-finally-bring-some-clarity-to-the-paramount-vs-netflix-back-and-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Warner Bros. Discovery Opening Up Merger Talks Again Finally Bring Some Clarity to the Paramount vs. Netflix Back and Forth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">There\u2019s been a lot of noise over the last couple of months about whether <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> ultimately would acquire <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>\u2019s (Wbd) film and TV studio or if <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\">Paramount-Skydance<\/a> (Psky) would prevail in throwing enough money at the problem and win the rights itself. When even <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1056659\/\">John Oliver<\/a> is saying on the season premiere of \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d he doesn\u2019t know who his new \u201cbusiness daddy\u201d will be, you know things have gotten confusing.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, we\u2019ve largely stayed out of all the loud back and forth that\u2019s gone on in the press, parsing each of the nine separate offers Psky has made, giving more oxygen to the activist investor calling for a No vote on the Netflix deal, or reading the tea leaves between each Wbd response about how it really feels about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> and company. The general public \u2014 and especially the&#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>There\u2019s been a lot of noise over the last couple of months about whether Netflix ultimately would acquire Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s (Wbd) film and TV studio or if Paramount-Skydance (Psky) would prevail in throwing enough money at the problem and win the rights itself. 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