Will Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators?
Whereas Paramount was assumed to be the frontrunner to purchase the storied film studio thanks to CEO David Ellison’s connections to the Trump administration, new reporting in Bloomberg and The Hollywood Reporter means that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos met with President Donald Trump to focus on a possible deal in November.
Trump reportedly instructed Sarandos that Warner Bros. ought to promote to the highest bidder, and the Netflix govt appears to have left the assembly satisfied that the president would not instantly oppose the acquisition.
Bloomberg additionally reviews that Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav was reluctant to promote the firm and stunned when Paramount started to discover an acquisition — if nothing else, he’d anticipated Ellison to wait till the studio accomplished a deliberate cut up of its film and streaming companies from its cable networks.
In the end, Warner Bros. stated it could think about different bids, main to a aggressive course of that Netflix gained — though Paramount may nonetheless maintain its hat in the ring with a hostile bid.
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