Netflix Wants to Own Your Childhood: Inside the $72 Billion Warner Bros. Swing
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- Netflix agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets for about $72B (roughly $82.7B including debt), pulling HBO, HBO Max, DC, and more into its orbit.
- A consumer class-action lawsuit filed December 9 and rising antitrust worries make regulatory approval a real cliffhanger, not a formality.
- Paramount Skydance is countering with a hostile bid for all of WBD, turning this into a full media bidding war with big implications for streaming’s future.
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