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Warner Bros is the poison apple of Hollywood’s eye

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The storied movie studio has inked mega-mergers with Time, AOL, AT&T and Discovery. All ended poorly. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists discuss its latest $83 bln deal with Netflix, a gatecrash bid from a rival, and whether a happier ending could be in store. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt-out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4

News. If there's one thing Hollywood loves, it's a sequel.

0:40.5

Indeed, the storied Warner Brothers movie and television studio has spawned a veritable M&A franchise.

0:47.3

Whether it was magazine operator Time, dot-com bubble star AOL, stodgy telecom giant AT&T, or cable network operator Discovery.

0:58.0

Many, many suitors have found the ageo media company impossible to resist and ultimately impossible to live with.

1:05.0

In its latest corporate incarnation known as Warner Brothers Discovery, it is inked what it hopes will be the next blockbuster installment in the series,

1:15.6

agreeing to sell most of itself to streaming giant Netflix for $83 billion.

1:20.6

The only problem?

1:21.6

Another Tinseltown Titan is trying to bust up the proceedings, with $108 billion offer. What all this drama means

1:29.8

and what audiences can expect to see is the focus of this week's Newsroom. It's Amy. And it's

1:37.6

Jonathan, and this is the Views Room, the weekly podcast that invites you, the listener, into a lively

1:41.8

debate with breaking views colonists about the naughtiest issues in business, corporate finance, and economics.

1:47.7

Amy, just reading through that history, it's sort of hard to believe that yet another media

1:52.5

giant is willing to drink from what might seem given repeated, emphatically repeated,

1:58.2

experience to be a poison chalice, right?

2:00.8

Absolutely. Going through that list, like the remnants of time or event. fatically repeated experience to be a poison chalice, right?

2:01.9

Absolutely.

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