{"id":287280,"date":"2026-02-16T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287280\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:46:07","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-is-reportedly-now-mulling-paramounts-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287280\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly now mulling Paramount’s offers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Warner Bros. and Netflix<\/a> announced their intention to go into business together in December, Paramount has repeatedly tried to disrupt the deal. It seems like it might finally be getting somewhere. Deadline reported<\/a> yesterday that Warner Bros. Discovery will start taking the unsolicited offers from Paramount more seriously, and could publicly reveal this as soon as tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The news comes after Paramount sweetened its offer yet again last week. (The ninth(?) time is the charm<\/a>, we guess.) The CBS News owner is still offering $30 per share for Warner Bros. Discovery, but has added a 25\u00a2 per share \u201cticking fee,\u201d which would be paid to shareholders for each quarter its transaction has not closed beyond December 31, 2026, which Bloomberg notes<\/a> is a point toward Paramount\u2019s confidence that it could get regulatory approval for the deal. Deadline estimates this would equal about $650 million per quarter, and Bloomberg also reports that WBD had been getting some pressure from some shareholders to at least consider Paramount\u2019s offer. Paramount would also pay Netflix a $2.8 billion termination fee, which was a previous sticking point in the negotiations<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The regulatory approval process could also end up being a headache for Netflix, especially, compared to Paramount, which seems be (to at least occasionally<\/a>) on good terms with the Trump regime. Earlier this month, an anti-trust hearing about the prospective sale of Warner Bros. to Netflix was more or less derailed thanks to accusations of Netflix being \u201coverwhelmingly woke.\u201d<\/a> Those talking points came from a MAGA, Project 2025, and Heritage Foundation-linked group and were delivered by Republican senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since Warner Bros. and Netflix announced their intention to go into business together in December, Paramount has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-287280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287280","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=287280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}