{"id":354891,"date":"2025-12-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=403789"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:44:38","slug":"warner-bros-ghosted-paramounts-offer-hours-before-confirming-its-sale-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/warner-bros-ghosted-paramounts-offer-hours-before-confirming-its-sale-to-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. ghosted Paramount&#039;s offer hours before confirming its sale to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Ellison, CEO of Paramount, attempted to acquire Warner Bros. over a three-month period, but the negotiations did not yield positive results. <strong>Despite offering $19 per share and a co-director position to David Zaslav, CEO of Warner, the approach was not enough to finalize the deal<\/strong>. Finally, on December 5, Warner chose to collaborate with Netflix, thus breaking off negotiations with Paramount.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">They don&#8217;t just ghost you after a Saturday night<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The courting process began on September 14, when Ellison, accompanied by his father Larry Ellison, organized a dinner with Zaslav to discuss the potential acquisition. <strong>During this meeting, Ellison demonstrated his commitment by extending a generous and strategic offer, which included the possibility of a shared leadership position in the new entity resulting from the acquisition<\/strong>. However, by the end of the year, everything collapsed when Warner chose its direct competitor, Netflix, for its future alliance, leaving Paramount adrift.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TENET - NEW TRAILER\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3pk_TBkihU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>After the breakdown of negotiations, Ellison tried to reach out to Zaslav to present a new proposal. However, his attempts to make contact were ignored, which has been described as &#8216;ghosting&#8217; in the business world. <strong>Messages like &#8220;I tried to call you about a new figure we sent&#8221; and &#8220;Please call me back to discuss it in detail&#8221; went unanswered, leaving Ellison in an uncomfortable and frustrating situation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Now, after the failure of these negotiations, rumors have begun to circulate about the possibilities of Paramount considering a hostile takeover of Warner. <strong>This move, although risky and potentially controversial in today&#8217;s dynamic business world, could be the next step in Ellison&#8217;s pursuit to realize his vision of expansion<\/strong>. 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Despite offering $19 per share and a co-director position to David Zaslav, CEO of Warner, the approach was not enough to finalize the deal. Finally, on December 5, Warner chose to collaborate with Netflix, thus breaking off negotiations with Paramount. Not only do they ghost you after a Saturday night The courtship process began on September 14, when Ellison, accompanied by his father Larry Ellison, organized a dinner with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":354897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[5534,18884,19396,19397,9937,4712],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-354891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-david-ellison","tag-ghosting","tag-larry-ellison","tag-warner","tag-warner-bros","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354901,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354891\/revisions\/354901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354891"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=354891"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=354891"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=354891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}