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The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release.
A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi’s L’imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
Those partners have agreed to “forgo any governance rights,” including board seats, as part of their non-voting equity investment, according to a Paramount filing. The modifications allow the deal to be outside of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-warner-bros-netflix
neutronnefarious
Ok. Question. Fuck all this. What will happen to the new kind punk rock Superman?
Omicron416
This smug POS has such a punchable face.
JAPONfan
daddy Donald gonna inquire in the netflix deal for sure.
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
Fuck Paramount. The less content they control, the better.
bruntumber
It’s better for Net if Para buys now. In a couple of years Net will be able to buy the whole package for less then peanuts.
cytherians
Jared Kushner has no soul.
KawaiiInari
Jfc
I hate rich people
quade
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ fuck all of them
malbec
Shoot*
wadatahmydamie
But definitely don’t marry
onlymostofthetime
hell he already owns EA, so why not? /s
in all seriousness, this fucking leech needs to be investigated by the FBI (lol it'll never happen). This is the crazy fucked up shit that they let us know about. What else is there I wonder?
morninggloryshade777
Stop him! Stop this! Ellison is doing this to vastly expand R 'media'--propaganda sites-- yo spread them spread across America to the point of saturation. Otherwise known as 'state tv'..... Like Russia.....
YesButMaybe
Resistance (long term) will include getting corporations out of our elections, and expanding monopolies (and thus preventing monopolies) to include corporations owning other corporations.
Purrgandy
And with this, I go to bed. Hopefully I never awake. Fingers crossed!
kylepayton1360
Shouldnt he be trying to solve the conflict in Ukraine?
Antrobus55
Good thing Trump drained the swamp, eh, MAGA? And btw he's STILL screeching about Hunter, ffs, as if he suffered some kind of personal injury.
ToSisPoS
Superman suddenly was born in Kansas all along and Batman just shoots the villains.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Goddamn it. This is all awful.
nancyin60510
I’m afraid for what direction the US is sliding at warp speed
UmmonPrime
Hmmm.... which one would the FCC approve... hmmmm.....
TheWombatStrikesAgain
No way to say for certain. /s
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
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GloveFullaVaseline
This one I haven't seen, which is not saying a lot, but I am here to congratulate you on the best fucking username I've ever come across on any medium.
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
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DamnedIfYouDo
You can tell he's never actually been punched in the face, but he desperately needs to be.
LaughingMan2Gig
Bigger issue is the Ellison family who owns Paramount. A massive Zionist who has openly said he wants to buy as much media as he can to control the Israeli propaganda machine in the US. Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach https://www.972mag.com/ellisons-paramount-tiktok-israel-media-empire/
flordelasantillas
Hmmm...which one will orange daddy choose, Netflix or Son-in-law-crook.
trhopkins
well I know which stock I am watching tomorrow, ( today was insnae!)
HeywouldJablowme
I thought the family that owned Paramount were Trump loyalists?
HeywouldJablowme
Oh wait, I just realized it was Paramount taking over Warner Brothers, not the other way around. Jesus Christ such open and blatant corruption
TeChingo
If they take it over, I’ll be just pirating everything.
Screw this administration
TI99Kitty
With people like that in control, will any of it even be worth the effort of watching?
wadatahmydamie
To this day, people drive Volkswagens
TI99Kitty
TBF, VWs don't exist to spread right-wing propaganda.
I fully expect that, at the very least, Larry Ellison is going to stop Paramount and WB from producing anything that could be considered "woke" or "DEI." They may even try to return to the '40s and '50s, where everything centers around white male protagonists, and POC are comic relief. Or they'll be like Fox News and Newsmax, blatantly promoting Dear Leader and his BS.
TeChingo
Fair point
turbodog
Control the masses.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Shake your asses. Face screwed up like your having hot flushes
psugab
Good song. Not what I expected from Gwen Stefani at the time
nancyin60510
ABrokenThing
They're not getting it. They need to get over it already
Nephytis
Yeah they are. What part of the country belongs to nazis don't people understand? There is no help coming, there is no law to stop them. The checks and balances are gone, corrupted and only serve them. No one is going to help, no one is going to stop them but the US people.
ABrokenThing
Nope. They're not getting shit.
whereismymind86
oh I don't think you understand how corrupt wb's leadership is. They will absolutely drop netflix for this.
ABrokenThing
We'll see i guess.
Bubbells
They turned down the paramount offer, but are now being bypassed as the offer is now going to shareholders as part of a hostile takeover. Npr did a good breakdown of this
keystotheairlock
Yep. Just walked in the back door, and told the guys counting all the money they'd buy them out. Easy peasy. Nothing new, as far as b2b sales go.
mrthewhitee
I wouldn't bet on that. Paramount has Trump in their pocket.
ABrokenThing
The guy who does nothing but lose? Yeah, they're not getting it. Im fact I just did bet on it now that you mentioned it
sweetfeetpete
What’s the money line?
mrthewhitee
Who are you talking about? Paramount have gotten everything they've wanted so far this year.
Why do you think they wouldn't get this?
ABrokenThing
They. Are. Not. Getting. It. They pissed off too many important people and they even made the first offers multiple times (unsolicited) which pissed even more people off. They're not getting it no matter who they cry to about it.
whereismymind86
I admire your faith in our broken garbage system. It's misplaced, but impressive all the same.