{"id":209408,"date":"2025-12-31T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209408\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:10:07","slug":"warner-bros-commits-to-rejecting-paramounts-hostile-netflix-takeover-bid-in-latest-studio-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209408\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Commits To Rejecting Paramount&#8217;s Hostile Netflix Takeover Bid In Latest Studio Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros.<\/a> continues in the final days of 2025 as the media company&#8217;s answer to <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a>&#8216;s latest bid to take over the acquisition from <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> is revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0312159\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>&#8216;s report on December 30, Warner Bros. <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0885467\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery<\/a> intends to reject <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Skydance<\/a>&#8216;s takeover offer when the company&#8217;s board of directors meets next week. Per the report, Warner Bros. &#8220;remains unmoved and is waiting for Paramount to increase the financial terms of its offer.&#8221; A final decision on Paramount&#8217;s latest bid won&#8217;t be made until the next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount recently amended the terms of its bid for Warner Bros. following its previous takeover offer was rejected. After&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle for Warner Bros. continues in the final days of 2025 as the media company&#8217;s answer to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-209408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}