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Man I just renewed HBO for a year too. No way I am keeping it if they merge with Paramount. Which is almost a foregone conclusion at this point.

And so it goes….

Of course it will fail, you got Paramount as the likely buyer. They'll probably scrap it off for more money.

Who is Who?

Watch for massive layoffs as Paramount tries to keep all this afloat.

For anyone saying "Netflix acquiring would have been bad for theatres" Fuck AMC

He's buying news not entertainment media as an investment. Larry and David Ellison are close personal friends with Trump. Trump gave them control of Tik Tok USA, and they've bought/buying up CBS News, 60 Minutes, CNN, and more not to mention the consolidation of multiple entertainment empires.

Yup. Warner is poison to whomever acquires it.

This is a cash acquisition, not a merger. A merger is an exchange of stock or stock and some cash. That said, the only successful major studio acquisition was Sony's purchase of Columbia Pictures. All the others have been disastrous.

Looney

thank god @netflix.com showed they have balls because actors won't work with paramount it will destroy them and it is going to be poetic justice

😂

Cnn will be gutted

May this fail spectacularly 😊🙏🏻

Probably?🙄where did all these greedy idiots lacking any common sense come from?

I just read that Netflix pulled out of the race now that Paramount's offer was more favorable.

Oh well. Fuck em. Let them eat shit.

Larry and David Ellison, close personal friends with Trump, want to buy CNN, not WBD. I wouldn't be surprised if they take CNN out and sell the rest to Netflix at a loss the next day. They already control Tik Tok USA (most under 30 get 100% of their news there), CBS News, 60 Minutes, and more.

Oh it will because so many people will end or already have ended their subscriptions. I know have.

No doubt inflicted monetary commercialization disaster

Warner Bros. needs to stop merging with any companies.

It’s not about profit. It’s about playing the long game by controlling information. And the Dark Side will probably have enough of that ability before anybody can do anything about it.

A once great company.

deadline.com/2026/02/para...

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Disaster for whom? Someone is making money on this. Someone is consolidating control over media outputs.

Heres hoping

I hope it falls through. We don't need more Fox News clones.

It worked okay for Buffy. And teenage vampires. And Sam and Dean.

You’re telling me that the company with more mergers than successful superhero franchises is bad at restructuring?

Someone should come up with a plan for an employee buyout. Also, dump all the money leaking side hacks and go back to making movies people like.

I will never watch again Trump's & Co. Propaganda!

...why do I feel attacked right now?

Trump just cares about cnn.

What's up, doc?

I'd like to imagine the Animaniacs released on the Ellisons. They're animainy, totally insaney, reveal the truth on Jeffrey and Ghislainey, Animaniacs!

Allowing Ellison to purchase yet another massive media company is the main problem here and should require antitrust hearings. If the Repubs don't do it, Dems will. He already owns or runs (Tik Tok USA), CBS (which includes news and 60 mins) and this would also give him CNN and that's a lot of news.

Sounds like it’s time to start cutting Discovery membership! Buh-bye revenue streams!

Time to get rid of Paramount.

They don't have to sell. Like selling a house you built knowing the highest bidder will demolish it. Awful on so many levels.

I would certainly be a seller, regardless of whom the buyer turned out to be, just on the basis that the company will probably be worth less in the future thanks to the merger.

CNN is generally considered liberal. They recently tried to tip it to more conservative news but that didn't go over well with their existing viewer base (this was really stupid). Now that Ellison will own CNN, there won't be any anti-Trump stories or they will be watered down. Kind of like 1/

Maybe that’s the side deal. Skydance buys the networks and studio. Netflix buys the library.

It's a big part of it. The plan leans more toward news and then writing in network television shows and movies to lean conservative but news is the number one goal and Trump added in every late-night talk-show host who has made fun of him. For some reason they are worse to him than Obama.

Exactly, and CNN has global reach.

Booty and the Beasts.

True (except HBO). But I really hate the Ellisons & I hope they get screwed.

Well, I guess it was "Rabbit Season" after all.

The entertainment industry's merger obsession is fascinating from a psychology angle — it's like watching the same cognitive biases play out in boardrooms decade after decade. You'd think executives would learn from AT&T/Time Warner, but apparently pattern recognition isn't taught in MBA programs.

Coming this fall, a remake of “Tanked” (starring Paramount)!

It seems they are paying too much for legacy programming and movies. They do get a studio, however it isn't worth what they are paying.

They knew this was a possible. They pocketed $3 billion.

And just in case there was any question, Larry and David Ellison are close personal friends with Trump and have donated ungodly amounts of money to him. They have officially donated $30m to Trump but more from organizations they give money to that gave it to Trump - that's a secret of course.

It makes no sense. To me it is creating a monopoly on reality. Control information, you control reality. They figured that out.

AOL Time-Warner

No, this time it will be a significant piece of destroying democracy.

I hope it wrecks Paramount and Ellison and much as it destroyed AOL.

Then the vultures will circle for pennies on the ….

Warner Bros. messed-up for their messing with Johnny Deeps business over supposably hurting the ex-wife which was proven false in court. And we lost the last few movie shows of Greenwalt. The ongoing of JK Rawling’s books, movies.

Well, good luck. If this merger goes through I'm saying farewell to Bugs Bunny after almost 70 years, but that's life. There is nothing else I really care about. CNN died a long time ago. I get my news from allies or podcasters. I don't really watch TV or go to the movies.

Yet again, the Animaniacs are going to get loose and run amok.

Let’s please STOP THIS!!

Who really cares what happens to Warner Bros. or any other entertainment company - in a few years AI will take over.

You know-- here is what would have been helpful -- if any of these mergers had gotten rid of a separate streaming service charge. But this is akin to paying Ma Bell and 4 baby bells all of whom are raising their prices and providing so much wasted overlapping content!

The owner of the LA Times even told the editorial board to back off from writing so many articles about Trump. Trump is trying to get his friends to buy up or control as many "trusted" news organizations as he can.

This isn't a short term goal for Trump and the Republicans. They've been talking about these things for years and these things are in Project 2025. He just bought Paramount/Skydance in a deal that only went through b/c Trump won the election and made numerous changes to CBS News, 60 mins, and 1/

It creates monopolies

Can't forget the time they merged with AOL...

Mergers line the pockets of the executives, who don't care if they "don't work".

Not legal