{"id":2301522,"date":"2026-02-26T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2301522"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:43:10","slug":"ted-sarandos-heads-to-white-house-as-fight-over-warner-bros-intensifies-and-hollywood-takes-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ted-sarandos-heads-to-white-house-as-fight-over-warner-bros-intensifies-and-hollywood-takes-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Sarandos Heads to White House as Fight Over Warner Bros. Intensifies and Hollywood Takes Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Cameron<\/a> was certainly helping out David Ellison<\/a> when penning a Feb. 10 letter to Sen. Mike Lee<\/a> (R-Utah) opining as to why it would be disastrous for the movie business if Netflix<\/a> were to close its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros.<\/a><\/p>\n

The merger battle has intensified on all fronts in recent days, capped by Paramount<\/a> \u2014 which began plotting a hostile takeover when the Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> board went with Netflix\u2019s bid in December \u2014 submitting a sweetened offer that puts it back in the race to buy all of Warners if the board decides it is a \u201ccompany superior offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos<\/a> is off to Washington, D.C., for a meeting Thursday at the White House, sources confirm. Trump\u2019s schedule lists a 3 p.m. Et private meeting in the Oval Office that is closed to the press.<\/p>\n

The most revealing spat in terms of Hollywood…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Cameron was certainly helping out David Ellison when penning a Feb. 10 letter to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) opining as to why it would be disastrous for the movie business if Netflix were to close its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. The merger battle has intensified on all fronts in recent days, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2301523,"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-2301522","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\/Ted-Sarandos-Heads-to-White-House-as-Fight-Over-Warner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301522","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=2301522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301524,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301522\/revisions\/2301524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}