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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 6 comments | 08 Dec 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom

Previously: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315 (1333 comments)
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indigodaddy ◴[08 Dec 25 15:17 UTC] No.46193176[source]▶
Does WB have to pay the breakup fee to Netflix if a Paramount hostile takeover succeeds?
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JumpCrisscross ◴[08 Dec 25 15:38 UTC] No.46193494[source]▶
It looks like it. $2.8bn by Warner Brothers to Netflix [1].

If the vote looks close, Paramount would be expected to raise their bid to cover that cost.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312525... 8.3(a)

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dabockster ◴[08 Dec 25 22:42 UTC] No.46198659[source]▶
The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts.

Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers are absolutely going to get harmed either way with that clawback clause.

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thordenmark ◴[09 Dec 25 06:22 UTC] No.46201847[source]▶
It's not like we aren't drowning in entertainment options.

Food on the other hand, that's a real problem.

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1. alfiedotwtf ◴[09 Dec 25 09:35 UTC] No.46203067[source]▶
12 Fast and the Furious, 42 X-Men movies… yeah - drowning
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2. fainpul ◴[09 Dec 25 10:03 UTC] No.46203223[source]▶
Not to mention franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, Alien, Predator, Jurassic Park etc.
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3. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[09 Dec 25 12:04 UTC] No.46204007[source]▶
Speaking of anti-trust, all of those franchises save Jurassic Park are owned by Disney through mergers.
4. hulitu ◴[09 Dec 25 12:04 UTC] No.46204008[source]▶
I'm still waiting for the "Alien vs Jurasic park". It must be a very entertaining movie. /s
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5. loloquwowndueo ◴[09 Dec 25 12:13 UTC] No.46204075[source]▶
Look back, not forward my dude. Plenty of good material from previous years. With the benefit of hindsight having filtered the crap out
6. rvba ◴[09 Dec 25 15:26 UTC] No.46205930{3}[source]▶
Best you can get is Aliens vs Predator vs Terminator comic book (if you are 10 years old you can like it, it is betterr than most AvP stuff but that is a low hanging bar)

I mean the franchise didnt get anything top tier apart from Aliens labirynth and the vP 2 game from.. 2001?