{"id":78862,"date":"2025-12-09T03:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/warner-bros-battle-escalates-paramount-accuses-board-of-cheating-launches-hostile-takeover-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:35:57","slug":"warner-bros-battle-escalates-paramount-accuses-board-of-cheating-launches-hostile-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/warner-bros-battle-escalates-paramount-accuses-board-of-cheating-launches-hostile-takeover-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros battle escalates: Paramount accuses board of \u2018cheating\u2019; launches hostile takeover bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount has launched a hostile $74.4 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, directly challenging Netflix&#8217;s previously agreed-upon $72 billion deal. Paramount&#8217;s offer, backed by Oracle&#8217;s Larry Ellison, provides more cash and aims to acquire the entire company, including its cable business. Paramount claims Warner management ignored earlier bids and favors Netflix&#8217;s proposal, which they deem inferior and uncertain.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount has launched a hostile $74.4 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, directly challenging Netflix&#8217;s previously agreed-upon $72 billion deal. Paramount&#8217;s offer, backed by Oracle&#8217;s Larry Ellison, provides more cash and aims to acquire the entire company, including its cable business. Paramount claims Warner management ignored earlier bids and favors Netflix&#8217;s proposal, which they&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/warner-bros-battle-escalates-paramount-accuses-board-of-cheating-launches-hostile-takeover-bid\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warner Bros battle escalates: Paramount accuses board of \u2018cheating\u2019; launches hostile takeover bid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":78863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}