👀🤔👉Now Paramount Wants to Buy Warner in Hostile Bid
Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery has thrown one of the biggest media deals in history into chaos, pitting legacy studios and streaming giants against each other under the close watch of President Donald Trump and regulators. Netflix still has a path to own Warner, but that path now runs through antitrust scrutiny, political pressure from Hollywood, and a richer all‑cash offer from Paramount that Warner’s shareholders cannot ignore.
Paramount has launched an unsolicited, all‑cash hostile offer of roughly 30 dollars per Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) share, valuing the company at around 108 billion dollars including debt. Instead of just buying the studios and streaming assets like Netflix, Paramount is trying to acquire the entire WBD group, going directly to shareholders and accusing Warner’s board of running an unfair sale process tilted toward Netflix.
Paramount’s pitch is that its offer is simpler: full control of Warner, paid entirely in cash, with no need to spin off businesses or merge giant streaming platforms. It is openly framing its bid as more likely to pass antitrust review than a deal that would combine Netflix’s dominant service with HBO Max and Warner’s vast library.
For Netflix to end up owning Warner’s studios and streaming division under the existing agreement, several steps need to happen.
👉Warner’s board must continue to back the Netflix deal and resist Paramount’s hostile offer, reaffirming that Netflix’s 72‑billion‑dollar package is in shareholders’ best interests.
👉U.S. and foreign antitrust regulators must review and approve the Netflix–Warner deal, deciding that combining Netflix with HBO Max and Warner’s IP does not create an impermissible streaming or content monopoly. The transaction must clear any national‑security or foreign‑investment reviews.
At every stage, a higher, all‑cash bid from Paramount gives Warner’s board and shareholders reasons to reconsider the Netflix agreement.
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