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Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance — Wikipedia (en)

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On October 6, 2026, Paramount Skydance acquired Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for $31 per share, valuing the company at $110.9 billion, with the combined company renamed Skydance. The acquisition was funded by the Ellison family and RedBird Capital Partners, with additional funding being provided by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (which hold non-voting shares in the company). WBD had originally planned to spin off its less profitable linear television assets as a new company, leaving the flagship Warner Bros. studio and streaming businesses. After Paramount Skydance began making unsolicited offers to acquire WBD as a whole, its board of directors placed the company up for auction; in December 2025, WBD initially accepted an $82.7 billion offer by Netflix, Inc. to acquire the WB studios and streaming business, with the remaining assets continuing as a spin-off known as Discovery Global. Paramount continued to make unsolicited offers for WBD into 2026, arguing that its offer provided better shareholder value than that of Netflix, would give Paramount and WBD the scale needed to compete with tech companies while preserving a commitment to the cinema industry, and would face less antitrust scrutiny due to Netflix's projected subscription video on demand (SVOD) market share post-acquisition. Paramount CEO David Ellison stated that the combined company would release at least 30 films per year, and maintain the creative independence of divisions such as HBO. On April 23, 2026, WBD shareholders approved a revised offer by Paramount at $31 per share, including an agreement to pay Netflix's breakup fee, and pay an ongoing penalty to WBD shareholders if the sale was not completed by a specific deadline. Politicians and members of the film industry expressed concern over the resulting scale of the company, its potential impact on jobs, movie theaters, and cable television. Concerns were also raised over the Ellison family's relationship with the Trump administration, its potential influence on the editorial operations of CNN, and the backing of the acquisition by Middle-Eastern wealth funds. The acquisition was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice on June 12, 2026, with no major concessions. The European Commission imposed conditions requiring Paramount to exit its United International Pictures distribution venture with Universal Pictures, while the United Kingdom is requiring that its individual news and children's businesses maintain editorial independence, and will prohibit the combination of its linear and on-demand services for five years. The completion of the acquisition was delayed by a federal antitrust lawsuit from California and eleven other states, which sought antitrust remedies due to the combined company's total market share of box office and cable television revenue. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) also filed a similar suit. Paramount negotiated a five-year consent decree to resolve the

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