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Hollywood Braces For Epic Bidding War As Paramount, Comcast And Netflix Eye Warner Bros. Discovery— Who Will Call Cut?

Hollywood is gearing up for its most consequential bidding war in years as first-round offers for Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) arrive on Thursday, drawing in some of the biggest names in entertainment.

Benzinga

Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks

Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery

The Guardian - US

Paramount Refutes Report of Massive $71 Billion WBD Acquisition Backed by Saudis, Qatar, Abu Dhabi

Paramount Skydance denies reports of a $71 billion WBD acquisition backed by Middle Eastern funds.

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New Star Trek in the works

Paramount Pictures have enlisted John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to write and direct a new Star Wars film.

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Disney Isn't Jumping On The Media Consolidation Bandwagon, Top Executive Says, 'We Like The Hand That We Have'

On Thursday, the Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) made it clear that it has no plans to join the industry's intensifying merger-and-acquisition chatter.

Benzinga

Forget Netflix—Paramount Skydance’s $3B Plan Is Turning Heads on Wall Street

New leadership's multi-billion-dollar strategy for growth and efficiency is signaling a potential turnaround for Paramount Skydance's undervalued stock.

MarketBeat

600 Workers Quit Paramount After Harsh Return-to-Office Mandate — Another 1,600 Jobs on the Line

Paramount Skydance's five-day-in-office requirement triggered 600 buyouts costing $185m, as it accelerates post-merger restructuring ahead of 2026 layoffs.

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Paramount Prices Are Set To Go Up Again, With One Head Honcho Calling It 'Enhancing The Value'

Star Trek and Tulsa King are about to get more expensive to watch.

Cinemablend

600 Paramount Skydance employees quit instead of returning to the office, and it cost the company $185 million, filings show

CEO David Ellison offered workers an ultimatum in September: Come back to work or find a new job.

Fortune

Bari Weiss wants to take down CBS News’ Standards and Practices unit for having ‘too much power’: sources

EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

The Independent UK

‘60 Minutes’ reveals the hate it received from both Democrats and Republicans after Trump interview: ‘I turned it off immediately’

‘The country may be politically divided, but the criticism from viewers was bipartisan,’ CBS News correspondent Cecilia Vega says

The Independent UK

9 Years Later, 'Star Trek 4' Is Officially Dead

After nearly a decade of trying to revive it, Paramount has given up on its latest Star Trek reboot.

Inverse

An ode to the best Star Trek franchise

Don't make me lose the little hope I have left.

The Mary Sue

Star Trek 4 is reportedly dead at Paramount, though a new movie without Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto could still happen

Star Trek 4 looks to be dead in the water

Total Film

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The Guardian - UK

Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level

How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, asks Arwa Mahdawi

The Independent UK

Stephen Colbert says it’s ‘self-evident’ that Trump settlement is ‘damaging to the reputation’ of CBS

‘Television’s in huge trouble. Maybe David Ellison [CEO of Paramount Skydance] will fix everything,” Stephen Colbert joked in an interview this week

The Independent UK

Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10,000 per day, according to report

Weiss took over CBS News last month after its parent company bought her Substack, The Free Press, for $150 million

The Independent UK

Trump gushes over Bari Weiss and boasts about ‘60 Minutes’ payoff — but TV viewers didn’t see that

‘Why would you subject yourself to this type of criticism? Just put it in, because it’s the first thing that I was looking for,’ one CBS News insider said of the network’s decision to omit Trump’s settlement boast from the on-air broadcast

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The Guardian - US

CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’

Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press

The Independent UK

Bari Weiss has added another Fox News star to her list of potential ‘CBS Evening News’ anchors

When asked about Bari Weiss considering Dana Perino to lead CBS Evening News, one senior CBS News staffer responded to The Independent with a face-palm emoji.

Cinemablend

Simon Pegg Shared Details About The Star Trek Script Quentin Tarantino Wrote, And He Didn't Hold Back

The Scotty actor shared a bit about what he knew.

The Independent UK

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs under new leader Bari Weiss. All of them are women

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

The Independent UK

Bari Weiss offers ‘support’ to laid-off CBS News staffers on ‘enormously difficult day’: ‘My door is open’

The steep cuts to the news division included the entire race and culture unit, two streaming shows and the bureau in Johannesburg. Additionally, the network’s Saturday morning news show was gutted and its two hosts were let go.

The Independent UK

Paramount to lay off 2,000 employees shortly after its merger with Skydance

In long-awaited cuts just months after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees

The Guardian - US

CBS News staffers lose jobs in ‘bloodbath’ as part of sweeping cuts from Paramount

Paramount laying off about 1,000 staffers, including some in news, on Wednesday amid longer-term cost-cutting plan

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