{"id":297483,"date":"2025-11-20T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297483\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:21:08","slug":"hbo-max-chief-doesnt-worry-about-paramount-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297483\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Chief Doesn&#8217;t Worry About Paramount Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThursday is the day when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/warner-bros-discovery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros-discovery_1\" data-tag=\"warner-bros-discovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> will receive formal bids from potential acquirers. One of those bids is all but certain to come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount_1\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a>, which under CEO David Ellison mostly replaced the creative executives running that company in favor of his own team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s the sort of news that could consume many an entertainment executive concerned for the future of their careers, and their team\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max_1\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a> chief Casey Bloys, however, isn\u2019t spending much time thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI had a town hall a couple weeks ago, and I said, the the only thing you can do in this process, and the best thing you can do, is just focus on your job, which is making the most impactful programming in whatever genre,\u201d Bloys told The Hollywood Reporter at a media event in New York Thursday, when asked about the likely looming acquisition, noting that for now it remains \u201ctheoretical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a waste of energy, because I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Bloys added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cNow, that being said, I\u2019m obviously very proud of what we\u2019ve done at HBO and HBO Max. I would like to see that continue,\u201d Bloys continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve all worked at HBO for a long time. I\u2019m proud of our track record, but, you have to go into these process with an open mind. And a lot of it is out of our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBloys and his team have helped HBO Max propel itself into the upper echelons of streaming, but a likely deal (be it from Paramount, Comcast or Netflix) would all but certainly change its course. That said, as he noted Thursday, the HBO team has a long tenure and a long track record, underscoring that any deal that sees HBO Max change hands would benefit from keeping that team and their approach to programming intact, even if it becomes part of yet another larger corporate strategy or play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTony Maglio contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday is the day when Warner Bros. 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