Warner Bros fights Paramount's $108bn hostile offer | FT #shorts
Financial Times·2025-12-19 12:22

Warner Bros. Discovery sent a clear message to its shareholders on December 17. Trust us, the best buyer of the storied Hollywood company is Netflix, not Paramount.Paramount is led by the billionaire son of Oracle's founder, David Ellison. He put forward a hostile 108 billion bid last week to buy Warner Bros. , but the Warner board called that offer inferior and too risky for investors.Why. They're telling Warner investors that the Ellison family, the second richest in America, can't be trusted to back the ...