{"id":2297378,"date":"2026-02-24T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2297378"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:01:26","slug":"paramount-battles-netflix-with-higher-bid-to-snag-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paramount-battles-netflix-with-higher-bid-to-snag-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Battles Netflix with Higher Bid to Snag Warner Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\">Paramount Skydance<\/a> has upped its bid to buy <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0870258\/\">Discovery<\/a>, escalating the ongoing battle for control of one of Hollywood\u2019s most famous studios, according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The new offer improves on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>\u2019s earlier $30-a-share all-cash proposal made directly to Warner Bros. shareholders in December, and it addresses some of the concerns Warner Bros. had with previous bids, including financing certainty. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the details are not public.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Warner Bros. had agreed to sell its film and TV studios and HBO business to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> for $27.75 a share. That deal would also spin off cable networks like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0165168\/\">celebrity.land<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0009512\/\">TNT<\/a>.<\/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 m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance has upped its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, escalating the ongoing battle for control of one of Hollywood\u2019s most famous studios, according to sources familiar with the matter. The new offer improves on Paramount\u2019s earlier $30-a-share all-cash proposal made directly to Warner Bros. shareholders in December, and it addresses some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297379,"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-2297378","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\/Paramount-Battles-Netflix-with-Higher-Bid-to-Snag-Warner-Bros.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297378","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=2297378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297380,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297378\/revisions\/2297380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}