Thread 150938003

>>150938003 (OP)
I don't think Disney would afford this time, but it would be so fucking funny.

>>150938003 (OP)
Is this good for businsess , or just stock prices?

>>150938003 (OP)
Netflix. Some interesting connections between the two companies.

>>150938410
Disney would only buy Warner and then further waste billions making bad ideas which could lead to the death of Disney itself as the Jews want. Jews within Disney want to kill the company.

>>150938410
There is no reports of Disney interest and they are pretty much 0% going for it so it will not be them
It’ll be either Amazon, Paramount, Comcast, or Netflix, with a further reach for Apple

>>150938410
Disney cannot afford shit after acquiring Fox immediately before covid.

Yay, more corporate consolidation! Surely this will improve things!

>>150938521
Which one of these is the son of a bazillionaire who's friends with the president? We're going to see SpongeBob Batman crossovers by 2030

>>150938551
Paramount
But remember also these are massive ass companies at play here worth trillions. The worlds biggest players are going for WB

>>150938544
finally batman and jack reacher (tom cruise) and jack reacher (alan ritchson) and hawk (alan ritchson) and raphael (alan ritchson) and Aquaman (alan ritchson) can team up

>>150938003 (OP)
So what's the worst case scenario? The Saudis or Chinese buy it?

This will be great if whoever buys wb will actually have cartoon network shows on their service.

>>150938440
More connections with Paramount, if anything.

>>150938515
Faggot.

>>150938521
Wouldn't be Paramount. They just finished a merger with Skydance. Comcast is getting too fat on Disney money and its franchises doing well.

>>150938536
Fox merger was six years ago, and Disney just finished buying Universal's stake in Hulu.

>>150939663
We're already in the worse case scenario. It can't get any worse, can it?

>>150940080
....how does that prove that Disney is in good enough financial shape to make another many multiple billion dollar purchase today?

They just spent a lot of money, and they have not seen good returns on their past few purchases, and their film outlook had been bad for the last several years, and the parks just had to raise prices last week.

>>150940080
Yes, and Disney is significantly worse off in 2025 than they were 6 years ago. They did not even have the complete funds for Fox at the time. They had to make some stock share fuckery to complete the purchase back then.

Sure I got 50 bucks

these big companies selling off ips and assets just for a couple more years of being able to call themselves a company is no better than me scrounging my house for valuables i can pawn off for crack money.

>>150940080
Gee...I wonder if there was some major event that happened in the last 6 years that made any major changes to the economy or caused some significant problems for the entertainment industry in some way...something that overwhelming majority of companies have not quite recovered from just yet...

>>150938003 (OP)
>Disney already has their own IP, content, and streaming service to justify grabbing another major film studio

>Netflix could but already stated that they have no interest in buying anything

>Amazon is potentially able to acquire but would run into legal trouble and already has their own film studio MGM

>Comcast is still in the process of splitting with their cable businesses so they're not going to buy the whole studio

>Apple rarely buys anything these days

>Only Paramount has the unique advantages of being backed by a tech multibillionaire and are unencumbered by legal hurdles thanks to playing favorites with the current administration

Face it. This is Ellison's game to win and all the other players are losing, and those that haven't, have already folded.

>>150939663
>worse case scenario

Realistically? If Netflix gets them. They'll pull out of theatrical releases altogether and shove all the major releases on their platform. It'd be a huge boon for them and further entrench their positions. It'd be a death knell for an already weakened film industry.

>>150940223
The 2008 financial crisis

>>150939663
Worst case is Netflix because they're going to put all those movies under their streamer which is going to further destroy theaters
2nd worst is Paramount-Skydance because they already have a big enough studio and will just turn WB into another zionist outlet like CBS and TikTok
Best case is either Apple or Amazon. Both already have a good relationship with Warners and aren't major studios gobbling a competitor, meaning we would still have 5 major film studios instead of 4 if Paramount or Netflix buys WB

>>150940252
Don't forget:

>Disney has around 42 billion in total debt
>Comcast has an eyewatering 101 fucking billion in total debt and they're still busy unloading most of that on their cable network business they're splitting off jesus christ

Take those 2 companies out of the picture and you'll realise it's only Netflix, Amazon, and Apple that could buy them but have shown zero signs or interest that implies they'd go for it. Only Paramount has what it takes.

Please let it be Universal. My ass would be in a soup kitchen tonight if WB goes to Universal.

>>150940307
>Apple
They're rarely involved in buying shit, even if they've got the opportunity to do so.

>Amazon
They could, but they already have MGM and they're more likely to run into legal trouble for doing so than any of the rest (apart from Comcast).

>>150940252
Amazon, Netflix and Apple will continue as usual, they don't want to have to deal with cable assets and the parks. They will be just fine. The 3 major streaming services will eventually be Prime Video, Netflix and Apple TV, they have the capital to spend.

Comcast and Disney are fucked because they ruined all of their IP and ran it into the ground. They will maybe survive due to their parks/technology packages. Also Disney+ and Peacock fucking suck balls. They have like no good originals. Plus Disney is folding Hulu.

Paramount has the highest rate of winning against everyone if they can buy all of WB and merge Paramount+ and HBO Max together into a better service. However they are neither A) a tech giant or B) have parks/services

I think there will be 5 streaming services by the end. You'll have Prime Video, Netflix and Apple TV, and then there will be Disney+ and Paramount/HBO. Disney+ will still be the funniest loser in all of this at #5. Comcast will eventually shut down Peacock and move their shit to either Netflix or Paramount/HBO because no one has that shit.

>>150940325
Anon, Comcast can't get them. They're still in a fuckton of debt, and they're trying to dump it all on their declining cable assets. The spin-off isn't going to be done until early of next year. Paramount's already made the leap to buy WB wholesale which puts Comcast in a weaker position.

Also, Trump fucking hates Comcast. There's just too many headwinds going against them.

>>150940351
Paramount's not a tech giant, but they're backed by one anyway. The only reason they're not doing that hog-wild is because they don't want to have it drawn-out like what happened when Skydance initially bought them and needed to pay the administration up for a lawsuit settlement. They have more advantages in their favor than the rest do. It wouldn't surprise me if the only reason it's taking this long is because Ellison is directly talking to Trump to make a deal to tell him to stop any other company from buying WB.

>>150940399
He'll get what he wants. They rejected the initial offer but his dad is fucking loaded, if they want $30/share they'll get it. I'd rather it go to him then fucking Bob Iger or Comcast, they don't seem to know how to make good anything. Paramount and Warner still make good shit from time to time. If Paramount doesn't get it I hope it goes to Apple, because it seems like they actually give a damn about making good TV at least. Netflix sucks balls as much as Disney does.

>>150938003 (OP)
>>150940252
Okay, but what do you think Paramount would DO with any Warner IPs should they buy them?

>>150940550
Easy. They'll restructure the businesses. And maybe continue with Zaslav's plan to spinoff the cable networks for both companies to make up for the money lost during the acquisition. They'll merge HBO Max with Paramount+ to boost their flailing numbers. They'll still keep Gunn's plans for DC intact, but they'll definitely merge the billion-dollar franchises of Garfield and TMNT respectively into DC to make the entire studio even more lucrative.

I dunno what they plan to do with WB Games though.

>>150938003 (OP)
Translation: We want Paramount to buy us but we think we can trick them into paying more with this PR statement.

>>150940550
First thing is they would combine Paramount Plus and HBO Max for a large streaming service. This is also what Comcast wants to do, and Apple and Amazon probably would too
Then they would have continued theatrical plans for Warner IPs and DC. It would largely be business as usual even if they are now Warner Paramount

>>150940626
>They'll still keep Gunn's plans for DC intact, but they'll definitely merge the billion-dollar franchises of Garfield and TMNT respectively into DC to make the entire studio even more lucrative.
Can they do that?

>>150940698
Garfield and TMNT are comic book properties. They'd be no different from when DC acquired the comics publishers of Quality (Plastic Man), Fawcett (Shazam/Captain Marvel), Charlton (Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Peacemaker, etc.), and WildStorm (Midnighter, Grifter, Mr. Majestic, etc.). That's just how DC works nowadays.

They're not exactly shy about it either.

>>150938003 (OP)
Universal is going for it.
Not only do they have Harry Potter in their parks already, they also want more IP for their Epic Universe.

>>150940871
Nigga, they can't.

They're still trying to do that cable spinoff and they're gorillions in debt, way more in debt than Warner ever was.

>>150940118
>how does that prove that Disney is in good enough financial shape to make another many multiple billion dollar purchase today?

I didn't say anything of the sort.

>>150940252
>Paramount

Paramount's consistently a bum horse. Despite gold mines like Nickelodeon, South Park, and Star Trek, every CEO on their payroll is a complete idiot that mishandles everything. Ellison might as well be Elon buying Twitter, or Murdoch buying up IGN and Tiktok.

>>150940956
I didn't say that Paramount would be successful from buying them. Just that they'd have the most success in actually buying them outright. It's still a question on whether they'd still be able to make a profit to justify the whole thing considering how keen Ellison is in getting there first.

>>150940776
Aren't all those examples capeshit though?
DC already doesn't do anything but capeshit regularly
Ninja Turtles maybe but Garfield? The closest he has to capeshit is that weird CGI movie

>>150940896
Then they’ll pull in a third partner to help them buy it.
Obviously not Discovery or Disney.

>>150941002
Garfield is admittedly harder mostly because he's not exactly a comic book IP as he's technically a comic strip character. I'd imagine they'd merge him with DC either way to reduce any friction between synergizing their comic IPs.

>>150940223
Bidenomics fucked America up and now everyone is hurting, including the big corporations.

>>150940325
I would only want Universal to get the rights to the DC Stuff so they will have a backup plan when Disney comes to take back all the marvel stuff in islands of adventure.

Imagine Incredible hulk getting rethemed into a joker coaster

Seems like Ellison made another bid and got rejected again. Warner’s board told Zaslav that anything under 70 billion and below isn’t sufficient for a buyout.

Strange how Ellison hasn’t just gone all out and bid the exact amount at this point, but I digress.

>>150942534
Ellison is channeling his inner Logan Roy. It's all about fucking the other side, cutting their throats.

>>150942563
How so? I’m not business-savvy, but why is he still bidding so low? Warner’s already announced they’re open to be sold and he could be outbid by someone else

>rejected $57 billion acquisition of WB

Hoo boy

>>150942645
What's it currently trading at?

>>150942645
>>150942671
>Stock price was around $18.50 at the time of the offer
Zaslav is smoking crack if he rejected that offer.

>>150942671
Last I saw it was around… 20.33?

>>150938521
Sony and Toho were also interested, but in Sony's case they only want Warner Bros for Jojo while Toho wants Monster Verse Godzilla to be their own almost like what happened to Zilla.
>>150938536
Yes, they can, but Disney only wants WB for DC.
>>150939663
Trump is making sure an American company is buying Warner Bros.