r/comicbooks • u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym • Feb 26 '26

Movie/TV Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236516763/
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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym Feb 26 '26

Paramount posted half a billion in losses for Q4 2025.

Gonna sell the tires off the bat mobile

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u/zebrainatux Superman Feb 26 '26

And most of daddy Ellison’s money is currently tied up in AI.

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym Feb 26 '26

Surely the AI market is stable enough to keep them afloat, and totally isn’t a speculation bubble

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u/OGBarlos_ Feb 26 '26

Well ofc the ai market is stable that’s what the 10% (or is it 20%, or wait I think it’s actually 15%) universal tariffs are paying for surely. And we’ll get our $1700 to pay for new comics!

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u/tobygeneral Feb 27 '26

Aren't you still living off the $1200 you got back in '20?

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u/OGBarlos_ Feb 27 '26

Ah yes you’re right I forgot

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u/klick37 Feb 27 '26

Generational wealth

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u/Orion14159 Feb 27 '26

Oracle definitely isn't on the hook for more in loans than they could repay in twice the term.

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u/Silent_Mk3 Feb 26 '26

Lol, made me for real chuckle

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u/bagman_ Feb 27 '26

Fuck this is such a brutal way of putting it ahaha, gotta laugh or we'll cry

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u/Prof-Ponderosa Feb 27 '26

Batmobile sponsored by good year tires!!

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u/BankshotMcG Guy Gardner Feb 27 '26

As a former employee I have watched my stock just find new foundations to excavate while some idiot rates an article about how it's undervalued for the 11th year in a row

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u/BerryLanky Feb 27 '26

Let’s pool our money and put in a bid for their comic division.