Sony Reportedly in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount

[sdp]

Again I think it really depends on what you define as "original" Stranger things is also 'comissioned' and not made by in house studio at netflix. The line is blurry. Stranger Things, Wednesday, Kpop demon hunters (that also got a theatrical release in some countries after its success), all are more similar than you'd think. Netflix gives high-level notes and creative control stays with the studio or creator. I mean they do control renewals/budget/distribution. It's a lot more complicated to say what "is" made by Netflix since they all share very similar productions, they don't really do much in house stuff at all, they mostly comission and sometimes they license which that last one would be say Ranma Remake and the show could still exist without netflix though likely it wouldn't. Streaming is just different from the old media ways.

[CyberCubed]

Squid Game was huge. Basically a Korean version of Hunger Games.

[ranger_scout]

Anonymous A-Listers are lobbying Congress to go against Netflix potentially buying Warner Bros. Discorvery. They are very concerned about how it will impact the theatrical business.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/a...ss-1236600659/

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

Anonymous A-Listers are lobbying Congress to go against Netflix potentially buying Warner Bros. Discorvery. They are very concerned about how it will impact the theatrical business.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/a...ss-1236600659/

Good **** netflix

[Autbot_Benz]

Looks like Netflix won

Netflix has won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery

They bid for just the Warner Bros film studio as well as HBO Max. Paramount was the only suitor bidding for everything including the linear TV networks.

Netflix has emerged victorious with what appears to be the highest and the winning bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Deadline has confirmed, after a tumultuous day that saw Paramount move aggressively to seal a deal of its own.

WBD put itself on the block in October and with David Ellison’s Paramount, Netflix and Comcast vying to buy all or part of the company. Netflix bid for the Warner Bros. Studios and and HBO Max streaming assets.




https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix...&utm_id=650775

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, this is far from over.

[ranger_scout]

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos responded to Cinema United's concerns calling this merger a unprecedented threat to movie theaters and his previous calling the theatrical model outdated. He said he is committed to releasing Warner Bros. films in cinemas.

https://deadline.com/2025/12/ted-sar...ng-1236637319/

[ranger_scout]

Sorry for double postings, but the WGA fully opposes this deal saying that it must be blocked.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/w...ed-1236601433/

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

He said he is committed to releasing Warner Bros. films in cinemas.

https://deadline.com/2025/12/ted-sar...ng-1236637319/

That's more than Warner Bros can say in recent years...

[IMJ]

People actually bringing social puritanism into an entertainment merger.

Ironically the same people who yammer on about the kind of progress born of the "throw anything at the wall and see what sticks" model. Yet THIS progress is "unacceptable".

[Andrew NDB]

I'm still not sure why it's soooo important for WB to sell at all. Are the top execs THAT pissed at Gunn's box office for Superman? That maybe they're not too optimistic about his Supergirl or Swamp Thing next?

How pathetic this would be if it's a do-over of the Snyder stuff. As in, Snyder got in 2 movies fully with his vision (Superman and Supergirl in Gunn's case, MoS and BvS in Snyder's) and then sort of snuck in a 3rd juuuust at the buzzer (Man of Tomorrow is Gunn's case, JL in Snyder's) before going away. Then afterward WB will kind of half-heartedly approve new movies in the Snyderverse (Birds of Prey, Aquaman 2 in Snyder's) then throw their hands up when nobody is biting anymore.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I'm still not sure why it's soooo important for WB to sell at all. Are the top execs THAT pissed at Gunn's box office for Superman? That maybe they're not too optimistic about his Supergirl or Swamp Thing next?

How pathetic this would be if it's a do-over of the Snyder stuff. As in, Snyder got in 2 movies fully with his vision (Superman and Supergirl in Gunn's case, MoS and BvS in Snyder's) and then sort of snuck in a 3rd juuuust at the buzzer (Man of Tomorrow is Gunn's case, JL in Snyder's) before going away. Then afterward WB will kind of half-heartedly approve new movies in the Snyderverse (Birds of Prey, Aquaman 2 in Snyder's) then throw their hands up when nobody is biting anymore.

Well when you have a Universe-building film slate announcement that was as utterly nonsense as it was, then you have to sell the entire company, so......

"The slate! The SLATE!"

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This has nothing to do with Snyder or DC movies and more with WB being drowned in debt which every company keeps buying and realizing they can't justify to their shareholders to keep it.

[CyberCubed]

I don't know why anyone would think netflix would bother James Gunn's DC movie universe, not only did Superman already prove successful and the next two are already being filmed, but there's no reason they would throw this out when part of the deal was for the money these movies will eventually bring in, both in theaters and when they put them up for streaming on netflix itself.

Also I wonder if HBO will be shut down. All the HBO shows will probably move to netflix, they won't want a competing streaming site for their own stuff. Also hope they get up all the classic DC cartoons and stuff up there. Plus they also have the new Harry Potter TV series coming out.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

But it's running out. Not in our lifetime, but somewhere in the next 50-60 years. So they started a "Vision 2030" program to instill economic diversification. This is why they fund stuff like WWE out of the blue and now are so interested in Paramount/WB.

And buy football clubs in Europe. Just like the Qatari and the Emirates have been doing for over a decade as well.