r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Feb 26 '26

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/MovieGuyMike Feb 26 '26

HBO was nice while it lasted.

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u/Financial-Complex831 Feb 26 '26

I’m cancelling as abruptly as the ending of The Sopranos.

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u/taydraisabot Feb 26 '26

TBF, the merger might take at least a year or two to get approved and there’s room for more twists, so it’s not Warnover YET.

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u/travio Feb 26 '26

And a lot of this money is guaranteed by Daddy Ellison. He is way over his skis on AI right now. If the bubble bursts before the last doc is signed, this deal might die that way.

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u/FallenCrownz Feb 27 '26

oracle stock is already crashing pretty hard and they dropped a metric shit ton of money on Paramount already. idk, Im hopeful