Overview
- The board unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance’s improved offer and urged investors to back the previously agreed transaction with Netflix.
- Paramount is pursuing a roughly $108 billion hostile takeover of the entire company, while Netflix’s nearly $83 billion deal targets studios and streaming assets.
- Warner’s leadership warns Paramount’s plan relies on unprecedented borrowing despite Larry Ellison’s roughly $40 billion personal financing guarantee.
- Executives cite potential termination costs and operational constraints tied to abandoning the Netflix agreement and to a lengthy Paramount closing timeline.
- Paramount and David Ellison continue courting shareholders ahead of a reported late‑January decision window as antitrust reviews and political scrutiny, including President Trump’s public comments about CNN, remain factors.