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David Ellison seems to be buying a media empire.
General Manager and Chairman of the Newly established Paramount skittance was eavesdropped by the investment bank to help prepare an offer for pickup Warner Bros. DiscoveriAccording to people who are familiar with the question that spoke about the state of anonymity to talk about non-public relations.
Warner Bros. Discovery has yet to get an offer from Thursday, famous people were announced. However, the company’s shares increased by almost 30% on Thursday afternoon, they wrote down the best stock trading day.
Representatives for Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery refused to comment.
Bringing Warner Bros. Discoveri added to the switch would add Ellison’s growing list of franchise and sports media collecting. VBD, which announced in June It is planned to separate into two entities, has an apartment of preferred property. Add those to make the most important collect intellectual properties and Elison can have a Behemoth content on your hands.
“The offer for VBD strengthened the overlooked value of its property portfolio, which was measured to its balance sheet,” he told CNBC, he told CNBC, he told CNBC.
Mountain content
Already in the house, Paramount has films and television shows with franchises like Star Trek, Transformers, Spongebob Squarepants, Teen Mutant Ninja Turtle, patrol, patrol, scream and mission impossible.
Recently expanded its video by expressing IP outside Sonic Hedgehog, which is Franchise $ 1 billion right, to make the right to make Call on the duty theatrical film and real distribution on the legendar’s street fighter adaptation.
Warner Bros. Discoveri has a massive library of the main franchises, including DC Superheroes, the lord of the rings, the throne and Harry Potter play. It also has inherited cartoons such as Scoobi-doo, Looney Melodies and Tom and Jerry. It is also a distributor of the legendary franchise of the dune franchise and Godzilla and King Kong film.
Last year, Warner Bros. Was Another highest thunder studio in a global box And Paramount was the fifth – the highest, according to COMSCORE data.
In addition to reinforcing the Attorney Slate Paramount, Warner Bros. Streaming service Discovery HBO MAK has more than 125 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter. Paramount + currently has about 77 million strea users.
Rush ESPN
In the wake of Paramarounte-Destroying, Ellison also provided a $ 7.7 billion, seven-year contract To make the most important exclusive US houses for Who is the group UFC is a mixed martial organization. The agreement means that the UFC will stop that its payment model and events will be available directly for paramount + subscribers and, in some cases, on CBS.
Sport rights are scarce and become only available when previous bids are preceded. Apple It is already expected to be the home of formula 1 and Main baseball Waiting until her offers expire after the season 2028. years to reorganize their media packages. This means that most importantly have several other sports funds at the peak whether he offered and acquired medium-term.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. Discovery has the right to broadcast games from the National Hockey League, the main baseball league and the Mart’s madman basketball together with French Open and Nascar.
Potential binding between paramount discodance and VBD would exponentize the paramountal libraries of intellectual property and arsenal sports content that could help to compete with them Disney’s ESPN.
