Thread 151215163

It seems Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) wants a full buyout of Warner Bros for 70 billions, there's nothing official but there's strong rumour and everyone is freaking out, thoughts /co/?
https://x.com/ravagelaserbeak/status/1986097765903143224

>>151215163 (OP)
Looney Tunes cannot go under non-American ownership, it just cannot
I would want anyone else to buy those characters

>>151215163 (OP)
I could 100% see Zaslav selling to Saudi Arabia, he's a corporate ghoul from reality TV.

Get ready for the Saudis to own fucking Superman.

>>151215202
True, on the other hand, this might the only realistic way to cut out the leftists woke cancer from WB IPs.
I think that's reason why everyone is freaking out internally lol

>>151215163 (OP)
Trump probably won't allow this

It's beginning.

>>151215163 (OP)
EA and WB

I mean it makes sense but will the government even allot this to happen. WB is literally americana iconic and historical. EA is fucking sportsball garbage, with a bunch of companies/ips they bought and ruined for teh lulz or stupidity or wokism or chasing stupid fucking trends with the worst game to be doing X trend with

>>151215163 (OP)

>Saudi Arabia

They will kill Lars Of The Stars if they win the bid and will force the AT crew to drop the LGTBQ+ shit.

>>151215264
Also this rumor is highly believable, based on this >leddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaMergers/comments/1oddi1r/comment/nktt53c/
>"CNBC reported Tuesday WBD received an offer from another company that was higher than Paramount’s and WBD's board believed Paramount may go public with its bid, which is "higher than what’s been in the press" but below $30 a share"
70BN is 28 per share

Bugsbros, no more dressing up as a girl, no more kissing men…

>>151215270
Lol, it would be ironic wokism managed to sabotage western industries so hard that they might just get bought by foreign companies due to their current low value

>>151215331
Zaslav said he wouldn't sell unless he got $30 billion a share, and I don't think anybody but the Saudis and David Ellison will pay full price. I'm surprised Comcast and Netflix are still in the bid, they are too chickenshit to buy the full thing with cable networks and theatrical included. They just want the IP/Studio.

>>151215331
jesus fucking christ man 70b, can WB even handle 1/5th of that debt tacked on. I swear these buyouts are just getting more and more insane. Like whats it going to take to finally fucking kill off ultra degen leveraged buyouts.

I wonder how much SA would pony up with cash for the buyout. Can the government even force a deal not to happen if its like 75% leverage where there is no way in fucking hell the company can pay back even a tiny amount of that debt after a decade.

First came sportswashing now comes mediawashing

>>151215385
>arabs
>bathing
bruh splashing filthy toxic water on something is not bathing

How did WB get into such financial hardship anyways? I mean, before zaslav fucked it all over with mismanagement

>>151215253
Kek

>>151215228
Bugs Bunny Porta-Potty.

>>151215163 (OP)
DC comics is gone for good if that's really happening

>>151215333
Looney Tunes characters deserve to be free acting as crudely gay as possible

>>151215364
I'm slightly betting more on the Saudis. They recently purchased EA and have a very good relationship with Trump, so they can do it without issues.

>>151215333
Its funny theyll object to buts crossdressing as a clear joke yet everywhere i hear about saudis is that the royal family are child rapists. And thats not even an islampahobic thing on my part since its mostly other muslims telling me this stuff and condemning them. Theyre apparentlt like the harkonnens from dune but IRL

>>151215419
No you see they’ve already announced a new superhero: Bombman, uses his explosive powers to blow up in the face of evil, move over Batman

>>151215396
dude its (((pedowood))) accounting, these numbers are all fake. They are just claiming this shit so board/ceo/shareholders get massive fucking payouts.

(((they))) are cashinig out everything before starting WWIII. Destroying all non-jewish media/technology. Like they're not even hiding what they have been doing for the past decade. People are just so apathetic no one cares anymore you cant fight back its impossible this has been drilled into every westerns head. Just allow being raped and another world war to happen, this one obviously going hot rather quickly.


Because (((these))) monsters have been doing this shit for literal millennia. cash&crash markets cause a massive world ending war. All to claim god will finally come down from heaven to take the jewish people with him. Smiting everyone else accepet the bestest of best goy who will have their humanity stripped away and transformed into some slave creature that is no longer sentient.
This is unironically what these monsters beilive in this is what the end game of their religion is all about. Its every jews duty to help push for the end of times.

Youd think people would finally wake up to this shit since its happened you know so many fucking times. They fail everytime get thrown out of countries mass murdered etc etc the world is in fucking chaos for ages. They somehow like roaches magically always come back gain power subvert and destroy as always. Till the day the fucking final solution happens and humanity can finally work towards god damn world peace.
I hope you're ready for another bronze age collapse anon cause thats where we are heading in the next 20 years

>>151215202
>>151215333
>>151215430
Drawfag please draw Bugs and other Looney Tunes acting gay or crossdressing or something being held at swordpoint on the top of a building by an angry Saudi tied up and being ready to be thrown off with them saying a comedic quip towards the Saudi.

>>151215202
>>151215216
Don't worry, the public domain is already creeping in.

>>151215163 (OP)
Coming soon: another new DC reboot where all Jewish and gay characters have been removed and female-led solo titles do not exist anymore

>>151215494
No one wants WB for the nearly worthless Looney Tunes or Superman.

>>151215163 (OP)
I would genuinely contemplate suicide if the fucking goat fucking pedos owned cartoon network, jesus christ

>>151215494
HA good one anon, you just know they are going to change the laws so how in the next few years. Disney will do fucking anything it can to hold onto shit. Sure trademark is forever but real disney shit is never ever going into public domain.

They will tank the company with ever last penny to make this happen.

>>151215242
Trump is completely cool with Saudi Arabia because we need their oil. The bitch isn't going to do anything and might even get a kickback if he approves it.

>>151215270
They're fine with funding gayshit, it just won't be broadcast in their country.

>>151215494
They will just trademark it to hell with frivolous lawsuits to discourage people from using the IP, just look at Tarzan's estate

>>151215548
anon half of americans oil comes from Canada. Texas and Alaska is full of the shit. Arab oil is an old fucking meme.

>>151215163 (OP)
I find it cute that they include DC in this as if that’s a subsidiary that actually matters on this scale

>>151215548
Dont we have alot of oil tho? Why do we have to be the saudis bitch?

>>151215516
The earliest version of Mickey is already public domain with no lawsuits happening. Disney also relinquished their Roger Rabbit rights. It's too late anon.

>>151215567
>>151215571
>Dont we have alot of oil tho
We do but not enough to meet the huge demand. Saudis have more consistent oil production which is why everyone buys from them

>>151215447
It is very well know that the elites and royalty in these Arab nations do not even believe in the dogshit religion they preach out
They drink alcohol, do heavy drugs, eat pork, have gay sex. All the stuff not allowed or punishable by death. And of course the child fucking, Then even turned Mecca into Vegas 2 and made it insanely for profit clownshow with the big hotels and development demolishing most the historic religious sites.
They do not believe in that region. They only preach out and make it law because it is the easiest cattle controlling mechanism imaginable

>>151215576
Yes, and Pluto (as Rover) will come in less than 2 months

>>151215602
Unironically why dont we invest in stronger oil production from non shithole countries then?
>>151215605
Yeah that fucking fits. No wonder all the other muslims i talk to say the saudis are animals. Reminds me of hypocritical christians in america

>>151215163 (OP)
I never thought 20 years ago that arabs would rule the world.

>>151215228
You realize the "leftists woke cancer" was always just the narrow end of wedge for jihadists to worm their way into the west, right? This was their endgame all along.

>>151215228
Did you not see the fucking Riyadh comedy show rules?
This is what I don't understand about you people. Back in the 2010s we all hated woke shit because they were an angry horde of crybullying retards who would use doxing and dogpiling tactics on anyone they deemed "problematic" while failing to realize they were pawns who were being used to sanitize the internet to make it safe for corporate advertisers.
Now suddenly we're just.. okay with right wingers doing the exact same shit even if it also will result in a sanitized internet designed for corporate advertisers

>>151215656
Because rightoids are fucking hypocrites and lost sight of why they were against SJWs in the first place and basically becoming another version of them in the process. Ive been saying that for years now

>>151215620
At least it is baked into the west you can believe whatever and you are not prevented to get citizenship, prevented to freely move, or openly persecuted by it

>>151215503
It lists DC as retaining autonomy, likely to prevent conflicts of interest or FTC probes

>>151215675
See, the problem to me is this, SJWs were the problem they were made out to be. I legit remember seeing some boomer tweeting some mildly conservative shit during the early part of the 2016 primaries which basically boiled to "you know I do think immigration got out of control" and some of the responses were bragging about knowing her employer and calling them.
It really has just turned into a shallow revenge campaign. I feel like Saudi Arabia would be pretty hands-off so long as they restricted the flow of certain things within their own country because the goal is money but it makes me wonder what the implications are if certain favors are called to them.
The ownership by wb wouldn't just be like, a monetary asset, it could easily become a political one. Lower tariffs, a bit of nudged favor in regard to international investment, that sort of thing

>>151215656
>Now suddenly we're just.. okay with
nobody is okay. there are no politics, just team battles. they do what their team says to do because their team is the Greatest. there is no thought, no ideology, no philosophy. there is only 'my team is the Greatest, I do what team says'.

>>151215620
>Unironically why dont we invest in stronger oil production from non shithole countries then?
because the liberal government in Canada kept saying no to building a new oil pipeline for over a decade and now its finally happening.

>>151215731
>I feel like Saudi Arabia would be pretty hands-off so long as they restricted the flow of certain things within their own country because the goal is money
The money is a drop of piss in the ocean to them. The goal is long term diversification and soft power

>>151215371
The Saudis have trillions, that are at least known about. They burn money on shit like this, they will buy WB and immediately pay off the debt
Their entire economy is they sit on huge easily accessible oil. Their strategy is survival for when the oil starts drying up or if alternatives are made, which means diversifying by trying to buy up the west
Buying one of the us media giants is part of that

>>151215202
Did you know that the majority of American music is owned by German company tied to the Nazis because Don't bought it through Columbia and sold it to them?

>>151215805
>hey will buy WB and immediately pay off the debt
thats not whats happening with EA...... they are being left with a shit ton of credit to payback.

>>151215163 (OP)
>>151215494
This would be the type of event that actually causes the Federal Government to start allowing big brands to go Public domain. If they cannot own it, then nobody gets to own it kind of deal.

Also it might cause a lot of abandonment of the big name IPs that dominate everything. If the IP is now foreign bought, then consumers in the US might care about them less and all of a sudden huge IPs are not an instant draw for audiences.

>>151215163 (OP)
Between the amount of properties the Saudis are buying up, and the number of theme parks they are building, it does look like they are trying to become some entertainment hub of the world.

>>151215163 (OP)
>sources: a twitter post and a reddit screenshot
Kill yourself painfully

>>151215865
It would mean they'd have to start allowing more new ideas and risks to retain their audiences or attract new people

>>151215605
>They do not believe in that region. They only preach out and make it law because it is the easiest cattle controlling mechanism imaginable
Wow that sounds familiar

>>151215396
They have been in some form of financial trouble ever since they expanded into the first mega corp AOL Time Warner back in 2000. Since then they have had to sell off various divisions like Warner Music, Warner Cable. The 08 recession hit them pretty hard too.
They were then bought out by AT&T who proceeded to load all their own debt onto Warner. They then reorganized almost every single aspect of the studio output for the HBO Max service which saw lots of series cancelled, lots of movies cancelled, and sent the company into way more debt.

>>151216326
Someone needs to redraw this with Hasan Piker and his dog
>HASSAAAAAAN SHOCK

>>151215163 (OP)
Wouldn't be the first time WB sold out to the middle east

>>151215163 (OP)
>no more Zionist propaganda in WB
Praise Allah.

>>151215548
I kinda wonder when people will realize it's not the mid-2000's anymore.
The US is effectively self-sufficient for energy (we need some heavy crude from Canada to get the right mixes). Most ME oil is going to the UK or Asia these days.

>>151215656
I think the issue is that people just stopped caring.
Personally, all the things I liked from the west have already basically been irreparably ruined, so I'm decoupling.
I don't really care if the Saudis own everything because I don't care about the things they're buying. I didn't care when they bought EA either because EA has been shit for 20 years and ruined easily over a dozen of some of my favorite game series (Command and Conquer, Ultima, Mirror's Edge, Need for Speed, Dungeon Keeper, and Sim City just to name a few) and I won't care if they buy WB because almost everything I liked about WB was ruined years ago.
This is the problem when you let ideologues come in and destroy entire industries, eventually people just become apathetic and don't care about those industries being gutted and sold to the highest bidder.

>>151215163 (OP)
I for once welcome our saudi overlords

>>151215202
Even D*sney?

>>151215818
There was a brief period from the 90s to the early 2000s where a German TV company owned the Jim Henson Company and the Muppets.
They ended up selling it back to the Henson family and that's when Disney bought the Muppet characters and Bear.

>>151216458
These are the same people campaigning against fracking while also refusing to understand the importance of self-reliance

>>151215270
Good

>>151215163 (OP)
Are the saudis worse that american woke liberals?

>>151216784
not until saudis start pushing their ideological agenda onto stuff

>>151215467
You're just mad you're not one of us.

>>151216814
I mean, they will literally behead you if you break Sharia Law within their country.

>>151216861
Irrelevant because no one here lives in their country.

>>151216870
*boughteds your country*
What now infidel?

>>151216882
Actually, I was always a faithful follower of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

>>151216882
I'm a male, not my problem.

>>151216958
>The leopards aren't eating MY face, what's the problem?

>>151216998
The leopards already ate my face, now those leopards are getting their faces eaten by a different group of leopards.
Not my problem.

>>151215825
It's probably just for the fiscal year. If you pay off debt = you just might make profits = you need to pay taxes.

>>151216861
they don't have nearly as much power to ruin franchises as the woke do.
We know for a fact the woke will desecrate and destroy any franchise to push their agenda.

Until we see the saudis do this, they're the lesser of 2 evils.

COMCAST, we need you to light our darkest hour!

>>151217037
>they don't have nearly as much power to ruin franchises as the woke do.
They stuck soccer players and random djs in the long awaited Fatal Fury sequel.

>>151217060
That's nowhere near as bad as the shit woke types have done to media for the last decade.
Not even close.

>>151216861
They mostly look the other way at foreigners unless its particularly egregious

>>151215163 (OP)
James Gunn Superman already anti-Israel.

>>151217100
NTA but that's a total lie. Muslims are trying to colonize the west, they're just pretending to leave them alone until a later time.

>>151217180
No they aren’t, kafir

>>151217180
I've worked across the middle east, I speak from experience. Most of the Saudis go to Bahrain to break all their own rules anyway. The understand geopolitics and don't go around beheading westerners. They can't diversify revenue streams with commerce and tourism if they look bad.

>>151217275
>The understand geopolitics and don't go around beheading westerners.
Maybe the regular citizens but the royal family doesn't mind the executions. Just look at Jamal Khashoggi

>>151215163 (OP)
I want to see these guys buy Shueisha

The oil must be fucking running out for them to start buying everything from media entertainment.

>>151216870
>tfw newyorker
Fuck

>>151217690
They've already given funding to Toei Animation.

>>151217690
That won't be possible, all Japanese companies over a certain age or involved in certain industries (energy production, publishing, agriculture, mining, and I believe certain television/film production companies) cannot be majority-owned by a foreign entity of any kind.

>>151217780
Hopefully China organizes some sanctions against Japan soon for such racist practices.

>>151217713
It's your fault for voting Madmani

>>151215242
Trump is a senile blob full of Big Macs and dying neurons. He can be coaxed into doing anything.

>>151215228
Fuck a goat, Achmed.

>>151215620
>Unironically why dont we invest in stronger oil production from non shithole countries then?

Trump's sent the navy to liberate™ the oil from Venezuela soon.

>>151216784
Worse, they're like American conservatives who threaten to cancel you for making jokes about Charlie Kirk (may he live forever).

>>151215228
o i am laffin. the saudis don't give a fuck what the filthy westoid kafirs are doing as long as it makes them money

>>151217692
Look into the Sudan incident. There'd going ti be a war soon. And one the us and most oligarch multinationals do not want to happen.

>>151216784
No

>>151218093
Projecting onto Trump what you people did with Biden.

They're all scumbags sho hate us.

>>151215419
And nothing of value was lost.

>>151215163 (OP)
>70 billion
How the fuck is WB still worth that much? Are they trying to scam an entire fucking country?

>>151218196
Read the pic. WB's market cap is valued at $20b, but SA wants to buy WB for $70b all-cash.

>>151215163 (OP)
>everything is now going to be owned by one of MAGA Paramount, Amazon, Disney, or Saudis
Feels bad

>>151217690
>>151217780
Kadokawa and Shueisha are future Sony properties.

>>151215467

And who is going to fight this war? Limp-wristed soiboys? Suicidal eunuchs? Rainbow-haired harpies? Cowardly jeets or disenfranchised urban youths? Because it sure as shit won't be chuds, assuming that there are any that can walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded.

You're just not gonna get enough bodies to throw at drones so that rabbi Shekelbergblaumstein has new fap material.

Can someone explain why countries are letting the Saudis buy everything?

>>151215228
You "people" are pathetic

>>151215163 (OP)
Welp there goes Porky Pig

>>151218294
Courts will not allow it, in fact they rejected the Kadokawa buy out due to Sony already owning their own film studio (Columbia) and to make sure another Godzilla'98 never happens again (Kadokawa owns the rights to Gamera).

Shogakukan/Shueisha costs too much and is too large for Sony to buy.
>>151215163 (OP)
Not happening, Skydance will be the ones to buy them out.

>>151217117
It isn’t.

You are just retarded.

>>151215163 (OP)
WB is a cursed property.

AT&T and Discovery tried to buy/merge with then and instantly regretted it.

Yet people keep tripping over themselves to get the cursed company.

>>151217780
Only government, banking and military jobs are protected by that law, everything else like television/film/game/electronic/auto production companies are not protected by that (See Nissan, Sharp and SNK).

>>151215163 (OP)
I would rather Sony buy Warner Bros after their failed bid for Paramount, since Warner Bros Japan already makes anime.

>>151215242
They'll just make a donation (bribe) to his ballroom or a scam coin run by one of his family like everyone else who wants him to approve shit and he'll bend over and present his asshole.

>>151218649
Sony tried to buy Warner Bros and Warner Bros wanted too much money, plus Sony only wants Warner Bros for Jojo.

>>151218649
Seeing HB stuff go to Japan would feel like a homecoming. Anything but being sold to Durkadurkistan, please.

>>151218649
Still better than the sandpeople buying WB.

>>151218319
Because greedy politicians and C-suites only care about money and wants more money. If they have to screw over the underclass (people like you and me) to get it, so be it.

>>151218319
Cuz they pay?
Only commies fear rich people money.

>>151219118
>Don't like the Saudis, huh? You must be communist!

>>151219118
>all the maga faggots that care about America First because "Muh ppatriotism"are suddenly silent about a bunch of shit skins buying everything
This country needs to be fucking glassed already

>>151219063
>we have to choose between israelis, saudis, and tech billionaires who hate movies for who wants to own WB

>>151215503
And Batman converting to Islam and becoming buddies with Ra's Al Ghul

>>151215202
It hasn't been owned by "Americans" for awhile.

>>151215163 (OP)
The sad thing is I can’t imagine them being any worse than the retards already in charge.

>>151215163 (OP)
Bill Burr as Supermam
Louis CK as Batman
Wayne Brady as John Stewart
Pete Davidson as Barry Allen
Whitney Cummings as Wonder Woman

>>151220207
Rest assured that WB would do just as badly without them. They are legendarily retarded.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Meets With Comcast Chief Brian Roberts as Sale Talks Ramp Up
https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-discovery-sale-david-zaslav-comcast-brian-roberts-meeting/

>>151220925
Great choices, but who will play as Lex Luthor or Joker?

>>151218346
and also Petunia Pig. There goes her stardom in The Day the Earth Blew Up

>>151215656
People have given up thinking things can get better again and instead have settled for things hurting their cultural opponents while not directly hurting them.

>>151221169
Go thank lefties for that shit, they wanted to squash anything that didn't remotely adhere to their beliefs and they got it. Complete mainstream cultural control of the entertainment industry.

>>151218319
Because behind closed doors the US and Saudis are close allies, US oil meme and all that. But most people have zero understanding of why they are kind of open-secret allies, how it happened leading up to it, etc. Since normies have the IQ of goldfish and the short memory to boot. Let alone not doing any research either as though current year events are all that matters. It doesn't help these studios, especially WB has been floundering dead from incompetence (and debt if I recall) for like a decade or longer.

>>151215163 (OP)
If you believe this you are genuinely retarded. OP is braindead for posting this Reddit garbage in the first place.

There is zero chance the Saudis manage to successfully buy Warner. Zero. Warner is not EA. The opposition from Hollywood would be immense, congress could block it under national security pretenses (Trump might be in bed with Saudi leaders, but no country would let a foreign actor control one of its biggest media companies). The merger would also have to be approved by multiple countries that hate Saudi Arabia and would be salivating to torpedo this deal.

At most they might finance the Ellisons or something. The PIF outright buying Warner is not happening.

>>151221515
>there's zero chance
Same thing they said about EA and look at what happened

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