Sony Reportedly in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Netflix is anti physical media so that’s one reason I hope they don’t buy Wb.

Its funny, because they used to be pro physical media, when they first started with the DVD rentals.

[CyberCubed]

Are all Snyder fans like Gen-Z kids or something grown up? They act like Henry Cavill is the first actor to play Superman or something. Do they not know there's like 6 or 7 Superman actors before him in all the older movies or TV shows?

I really don't understand this loyalty to one actor playing the characters. It would be like me saying Michael Keaton is the only Batman since he was the first Batman I saw as a kid, even though Adam West existed before him.

[Andrew NDB]

https://cosmicbook.news/james-gunn-d...r6MTh81vBgeSCw

Great, if true. Skydance's plans for Paramount appears to want to redirect content to be "America-centric" geared toward “the middle of the country.” That also bodes well for Star Trek's future.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

https://cosmicbook.news/james-gunn-d...r6MTh81vBgeSCw

Great, if true. Skydance's plans for Paramount appears to want to redirect content to be "America-centric" geared toward “the middle of the country.” That also bodes well for Star Trek's future.

Why do you post so much from cosmic book.news? You know they make up like 99% and try to call it as fact?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Why do you post so much from cosmic book.news? You know they make up like 99% and try to call it as fact?

He has citations. It's from a World of Reel article that breaks things out pretty well. That's a respected place.

[ranger_scout]

Comcast is hiring bankers to buying assets of Warner Bros. Discovery but not the entire company.

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/co...id-1236571997/

[ranger_scout]

Netflix is promising to keep Warner Bros. films in theaters if they buy the company.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/n...al-1236586629/

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

Netflix is promising to keep Warner Bros. films in theaters if they buy the company.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/n...al-1236586629/

They better promise to continue releasing physical media of WB’s catalogue too

[CyberCubed]

If Paramount does buy WB doesn't it mean TMNT and DC will all be under the same roof?

[ranger_scout]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

If Paramount does buy WB doesn't it mean TMNT and DC will all be under the same roof?

Yes it will.

[CyberCubed]

So technically wouldn't that mean IDW would lose the TMNT license and it would go to DC? Like a lot of Paramounts other series have comics at IDW like Star Trek as well, what would happen to the comic line?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

So technically wouldn't that mean IDW would lose the TMNT license and it would go to DC? Like a lot of Paramounts other series have comics at IDW like Star Trek as well, what would happen to the comic line?

Yep. It would absolutely go to DC.

[ranger_scout]

All of the bids have been submitted and now Warner Bros. Discovery will look them over.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/war...st-1236586842/

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Yep. It would absolutely go to DC.

I would be more than happy to say goodbye to the IDW era at this point. The only two things that would sting are the TMNTA omnibus hardcovers and Journeys being cancelled before they’re done.

Not that they couldn’t be continued or restarted over there.

I really don’t even keep my thumb on the pulse of the Big Two anymore. I don’t know if DC would be a good thing or a bad thing. I definitely would hope the turtles don’t join the main continuity and could just remain their own thing. I assume DC has some titles like that.

[Andrew NDB]

The likelihood with something like DC is what I've always said. They'd absolutely try and put them into the main continuity (you're either in or you're OUT, unless its something like Watchmen, and even then you see what they do) and then when the comic fails, probably just sit on them rather than have any other company have them. Then try it again in another 5 years. Over and over again.

[nidza_maj2000]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The likelihood with something like DC is what I've always said. They'd absolutely try and put them into the main continuity (you're either in or you're OUT, unless its something like Watchmen, and even then you see what they do) and then when the comic fails, probably just sit on them rather than have any other company have them. Then try it again in another 5 years. Over and over again.

Would they pull IDW Turtles in main DC Comics universe via portal or something?

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by nidza_maj2000

Would they pull IDW Turtles in main DC Comics universe via portal or something?

Nah, they would just say all the events in the IDW world happened except they're parked in between Gotham and Metropolis

DC approached their recent crossovers with Marvel this way. Heroes co-habiting several alternative Earths depending on the writer's preferences.

[nidza_maj2000]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Nah, they would just say all the events in the IDW world happened except they're parked in between Gotham and Metropolis

DC approached their recent crossovers with Marvel this way. Heroes co-habiting several alternative Earths depending on the writer's preferences.

Yeah, imagine if my theory is correct and sometime after TMNT Battle Nexus comic they are pulled to DC Comics universe, that is if Paramount succeeds in buying Warner Bros

[neatoman]

Yeah, if DC gets hold of TMNT, they're just going to reboot. Keep in mind that we're talking about a company that has stories about stuff like the Anti-Monitor sending out a multiverse destruction wave, the Flash changing the past to change when he previously changed the past and Superboy-Prime punching the fabric of reality, just so that they keep rebooting. At most DC will have an event like "Indefinite Hyper-Crisis Across Unending Megaverses" or something that will show a previous TMNT incarnation get folded into the main universe instead of just making a brand new one, in which case it will effectively be a new one anyway because they won't remember their past properly and won't have any real impact on stories going forward. Let's say this previous incarnation that gets folded in is IDW, then stuff like Mutant Town is just going to be erased from the timeline because there's no way DC would have New York in the main universe have a slum infested with human-animal hybrids.

[CyberCubed]

I don't see DC bothering with IDW's continuity at all. If they got it they'd just start a fresh series at #1 and do their own thing.

I just hope if it happens, IDW knows enough ahead of time to give the series a satisfying conclusion. Like I don't want IDW TMNT just canceled on a random issue without an ending. So hopefully they are able to give it a satisfying ending whenever the time comes.