{"id":71653,"date":"2025-10-11T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:22:07","slug":"the-big-deal-david-zaslavs-warner-bros-chickens-are-coming-home-to-roost-and-david-ellisons-paramount-knows-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71653\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Deal: David Zaslav\u2019s Warner Bros. Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost \u2013 And David Ellison\u2019s Paramount Knows It"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most vexing obstacle for David Ellison and Paramount<\/a>\u2019s planned acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery<\/a> looks to be David Zaslav<\/a> \u2013 though probably not for long.<\/p>\n

As of now, Zaslav is moving ahead with a somewhat-still-fuzzy plan unveiled this past summer to split Wbd in half by next spring to free the studio and streaming of several billion in debt and freefalling cable assets. At the same time, word on the Burbank streets is that Netflix<\/a> or Amazon could be looking to add some DC or GoT<\/a> to their balance sheets.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid\u2019s a dealmaker, that\u2019s who he is,\u201d a streaming exec asserts, putting emphasis on enhanced shareholder value as Zaslav\u2019s endgame. \u201cHe\u2019s always gauging the possibilities and getting the best value, and that is what I think he is doing here. Whether it works or not, who can say right now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Zaslav has reportedly engaged Goldman Sachs<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most vexing obstacle for David Ellison and Paramount\u2019s planned acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery looks to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71654,"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-71653","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\/71653","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=71653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}