{"id":2303878,"date":"2026-02-27T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2303878"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:56:09","slug":"netflix-says-paramount-has-paid-2-8-billion-breakup-fee-for-warner-bros-discovery-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/netflix-says-paramount-has-paid-2-8-billion-breakup-fee-for-warner-bros-discovery-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Says Paramount Has Paid $2.8 Billion Breakup Fee for Warner Bros. Discovery Deal"},"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> just got a little richer as a result of letting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> go.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Netflix announced that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\">Paramount Skydance<\/a> has now paid the streamer its promised $2.8 billion breakup fee following <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>\u2019s victory in their bidding war for Wbd.<\/p>\n<p>Per an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0023087\/\">SEC<\/a> filing, Netflix said Warner Bros. Discovery \u201cprovided notice to Netflix that it had terminated the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms in order to enter into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Psky in respect of such Company Superior Proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon the termination, Netflix said Paramount Skydance paid the $2.8 billion fee Netflix was owed in accordance with the merger agreement it had signed with Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More from VarietyVietnamese Hit &#8216;Fish, Fists and Ambergris&#8217; Gets Global Theatrical Rollout, Netflix Southeast Asia Premiere (Exclusive)California Attorney General Warns Paramount That <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\/co0870258\/\">Discovery<\/a> Acquisition is &#8216;Not a Done Deal&#8217;As Paramount Skydance Grabs Warner Bros.<\/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 just got a little richer as a result of letting Warner Bros. Discovery go. On Friday, Netflix announced that Paramount Skydance has now paid the streamer its promised $2.8 billion breakup fee following Paramount\u2019s victory in their bidding war for Wbd. Per an SEC filing, Netflix said Warner Bros. Discovery \u201cprovided notice to Netflix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303879,"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-2303878","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-Says-Paramount-Has-Paid-28-Billion-Breakup-Fee-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303878","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=2303878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303880,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303878\/revisions\/2303880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}