{"id":2303082,"date":"2026-02-27T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2303082"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:34:32","slug":"paramounts-apparent-victory-in-warner-bros-bidding-war-sparks-optimism-and-concern-from-global-players-fewer-global-decision-makers-mean-fewer-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paramounts-apparent-victory-in-warner-bros-bidding-war-sparks-optimism-and-concern-from-global-players-fewer-global-decision-makers-mean-fewer-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount\u2019s Apparent Victory in Warner Bros. Bidding War Sparks Optimism and Concern From Global Players: \u2018Fewer Global Decision-Makers Mean Fewer Buyers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Late Thursday night at around 10.30p.m. in London at the world premiere afterparty for Warner Bros.<\/a>\u2019 all-star gothic romance \u201cThe Bride!<\/a>,\u201d phones suddenly began pinging simultaneously around the room.<\/p>\n

The news had broken: Netflix<\/a> had pulled out of the deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>, leaving Paramount Skydance<\/a> poised to claim victory.<\/p>\n

Alongside the stars, including the likes of writer\/director Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>, plus Jessie Buckley<\/a>, Christian Bale<\/a> and Jake Gyllenhaal<\/a>, a decent crop of Warner Bros. Pictures<\/a> execs \u2014 led by co-ceo Pam Abdy<\/a> \u2014 were also in attendance.<\/p>\n

Guests noted a palpable sense of relief \u2014 a feeling that Hollywood\u2019s most intensely fought contest in years was finally over.<\/p>\n

But while the noise at the party for \u201cThe Bride!<\/a>\u201d may have been borne out of exhaustion following months of fierce back-and-forths between the teams of David Ellison<\/a>, Ted Sarandos<\/a> and David Zaslav<\/a>, the news of Paramount<\/a>\u2019s Wbd acquisition…<\/p>\n

See full article at Variety – Film News<\/a><\/div>\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":"

Late Thursday night at around 10.30p.m. in London at the world premiere afterparty for Warner Bros.\u2019 all-star gothic romance \u201cThe Bride!,\u201d phones suddenly began pinging simultaneously around the room. The news had broken: Netflix had pulled out of the deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, leaving Paramount Skydance poised to claim victory. Alongside the stars, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303083,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2303082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/Paramounts-Apparent-Victory-in-Warner-Bros-Bidding-War-Sparks-Optimism.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303082","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=2303082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303084,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303082\/revisions\/2303084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}