Reich said in a recent post on Substack that while he is against Netflix acquiring WBD, he thinks Paramount’s acquisition of the media and entertainment conglomerate would be just as bad, if not worse.
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Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ: PSKY) CEO David Ellison reportedly met with major Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) shareholders in New York on Tuesday, pitching the studio's $108 billion all-cash hostile bid as a superior option to rival Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX) $82.7 billion cash-and-stock offer.
Shares of multinational media and entertainment corporation Paramount (NASDAQ:PSKY)
fell 2.9% in the afternoon session after investors took profits following the stock's 9% rally in the previous session, which was fueled by the company's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Paramount had launched an all-cash offer of $30 per share, valuing Warner Bros. at approximately $108.4 billion. The move was an attempt to outbid an earlier agreement between Warner Bros. and Netflix. The initial news sent Paramount's shares soaring. However, the subsequent drop suggested the initial excitement cooled as investors considered the significant hurdles of a hostile takeover.
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A Hollywood mega-merger morphs into a high-stakes bidding war as Paramount Skydance tries to outmuscle Netflix — and the Trump-era regulatory backdrop looms large.
Stocks slipped from record levels on Monday as investors shifted into “wait-and-see” mode ahead of Wednesday’s Fed decision. At the same time, Hollywood turned into a live-fire M&A battlefield, with Paramount Skydance crashing Netflix’s party for Warner Bros. Discovery and IBM writing a big AI-data check for Confluent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is sounding the alarm over a potential merger between Paramount Skydance Corp. (NASDAQ: PSKY) and Warner Bros Discovery Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD), while urging regulators to ignore political pressure as they evaluate the deal.
