{"id":2307263,"date":"2026-03-02T00:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307263"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:25:16","slug":"netflix-all-but-assures-a-paramount-takeover-in-warner-bros-bidding-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/netflix-all-but-assures-a-paramount-takeover-in-warner-bros-bidding-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix All But Assures a Paramount Takeover in Warner Bros. Bidding War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In an absolutely shocking upset, Netflixwillno longer be purchasing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> Discovery. This comes in the brutal aftermath of a hostile takeover bid from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>, which put forth an offer that Wbd branded as &#8220;superior.&#8221; Despite being given four business days from Warner Bros. to outbid Paramount&#8217;s new offer, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> has already officially declined.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, Netflix CEOs Ted Sarandosand <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm7404639\/\">Greg Peters<\/a> provided the following explanation for why Netflix has decided not to pursue a subsequent bid for one of the largest media conglomerates in the entertainment world:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we\u2019ve always been disciplined,&#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 m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an absolutely shocking upset, Netflixwillno longer be purchasing Warner Bros. Discovery. This comes in the brutal aftermath of a hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which put forth an offer that Wbd branded as &#8220;superior.&#8221; Despite being given four business days from Warner Bros. to outbid Paramount&#8217;s new offer, Netflix has already officially declined. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307264,"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-2307263","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\/03\/Netflix-All-But-Assures-a-Paramount-Takeover-in-Warner-Bros.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307263","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=2307263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307265,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307263\/revisions\/2307265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}