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Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros

Rob Beschizza
Dec 08, 2025
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Paramount today launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, hoping to buy it directly from stockholders after it lost a months-long bidding war with Netflix that ended with an announced $74.4bn sale. Paramount’s new offer is $30 a share, amounting to $108bn in cash, for the entire portfolio of WBD companies. The N…

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