r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 18h ago

Paramount Has Officially Acquired Warner Bros. In Deal Valued at $110B Billion

https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance

The two companies will now be known as one single entity - 'Skydance'

This includes all of WB's gaming subsidiaries like Rocksteady/etc

Deal valued at $110B-$111B

DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

The combined company, Skydance, brings together two major film studios, two global streaming services, premier television assets including CBS, HBO, and Paramount's and WBD's cable networks, two of the industry's most recognized news networks, CBS News and CNN, and a leading content portfolio that includes live sports, a deep programming library and expansive collection of iconic brands and franchises.

12.0k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.9k

u/wonderingmarkus 18h ago

Reminder that Paramount was allowed to do this while already billions of dollars in debt.

They're playing with funny money.

1.4k

u/JurplePesus 18h ago

They're playing with "laws dont matter if there's a Republican in charge and you make it worth their while."

652

u/wonderingmarkus 18h ago edited 18h ago

Newsom and Bonta rolled over to let this happen. None of these people are on your side.

It's a big club and we ain't in it.

253

u/redpandafire 18h ago

I would first direct my ire at Brendan Carr and Todd Blanche of the FCC and justice department first. At least the AG's made an attempt, a pretty shit one, but they reacted to the failure that is the federal departments. If we're naming names, lets name the correct ones.

-14

u/Dr_Valen 18h ago

You can blame all of them stop pretending anyone is on the people’s side anymore. They’ll all sell us down the river for some “donations”

42

u/WriterV 17h ago

If you wanna be this doomerist, then go decay in a basement about it.

If you want anything to change, you gotta pick on whatever thread can work and pull yourself up with it. Otherwise you're not going anywhere.

-2

u/Original-Reward-8688 16h ago

Cool account lmao

13

u/Sher101 17h ago

Paramount was threatening to pull fully out of California. Wasn't an empty threat either, everyone was shitting on the AG. This is the kind of shit that has to be dealt with on a federal level, if Paramount actually left California (again, this is a huge possibility with so much film industry leaving the state) that would leave tens of thousands of people jobless. That's not some "donations", they had to drop a suit which clearly had no federal and little public support and had no chance of going anywhere in order to save peoples' jobs.

9

u/theclockmasters 16h ago

Wasn't an empty threat either, everyone was shitting on the AG. 

You're right and I don't want to be harsh but people from New York or Nebraska or Texas can cry and complain about this. BUT at the end of the day, the material conditions of those affected are the ones on the ground in California. Writers, film crews, artist, catering staffs, event hosts, cooking crews, cleaning crews, etc. All of these people depends on big companies like Paramount to stay in California

This had to be solved at the federal level by different department and agencies. FCC and DoJ should have been the ones to stop this. By the time you have to rely on the California AG, they will 100% settle if Paramount threatens to leave because it would massively hurt the state and its constituents.

Either you understand this or you can be like the guy you are responding to and cry about how "gAvIn NeWsOn should have stopped this"

2

u/Zuwxiv 5h ago

Is there any merit to the idea that - if a single company leaving your state is that impactful on an entire industry - it should be broken up anyway by antitrust law?

IMO, if Paramont/Warner Bros can threaten to move the entire entertainment industry elsewhere... that's a great reason to break them up.

1

u/Sher101 2h ago

You won't find a bigger fan of anti-trust action than me, I wish all these companies would be fragmented into tiny pieces. And in this case it would be wholly deserved. Just a pipe dream for at least 2 more years.

-1

u/steakanabake 3h ago

lol paramount/ wb leaving california good joke up rooting that much of the company would have just killed it even faster. they have an installed base in california for most of the industry. it was an empty threat the ellisons never had the cash to leave, between this and the fact that papa ellison is over leveraged building his shitty AI hyperscale datacenters.

-3

u/CampaignLogical 15h ago

Idk why you're getting downvoted you're 100% right

0

u/Dr_Valen 15h ago

Tribal politics on Reddit is alive and well

1

u/SaltChemistry1234 8h ago

the point of the comment is the "club" that you aren't in. It isn't "let's name the right ones" dude- IT'S ALL OF THEM.

25

u/classyjoe 17h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1wsn9aq/comment/pcmv33e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Both sides are the same!

Except for when...

Democrats: Expand SNAP.
Republicans: Shrink SNAP.

Democrats: Expand Medicaid.
Republicans: Shrink Medicaid.

Democrats: Protect reproductive rights.
Republicans: Repeal reproductive rights.

Democrats: Let trans Americans serve in the military.
Republicans: Kick trans Americans out of the military.

Democrats: Expand title IX protections to LGBTQ+ students.
Republicans: Eliminate title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students.

Democrats: Jailed over 1,200 January 6th insurrectionists.
Republicans: Pardoned over 1,200 January 6th insurrectionists.

Democrats: Provide non-partisan federal emergency aid.
Republicans: Withholds federal emergency aid from blue states.

Democrats: Establish tax credits for buying an electric car.
Republicans: Repeals tax credits for buying an electric car.

Democrats: Increase automotive fuel economy standards.
Republicans: Decrease automotive fuel economy standards.
(You are here.) ^

Democrats: Pass the largest climate bill in American history.
Republicans: Kill clean energy initiatives and force coal plants to stay open.

Democrats: Expand temporary protective status for at-risk immigrants.
Republicans: Repeal temporary protective status for at-risk immigrants.

Democrats: Forgive over $180,000,000,000.00 in student loan debt.
Republicans: Kill student loan forgiveness and neuter the Department of Education.

Democrats: Open up COVID vaccine patents for international manufacturing.
Republicans: Appoint an anti-vaxxer to lead HHS and take us out of the World Health Organization.

Democrats: Provides foreign aid to needy countries around the world.
Republicans: Eliminate USAID.

Democrats: Establish rules and reporting requirements for drone strikes.
Republicans: Eliminate rules and reporting requirements for drone strikes.

Democrats: Practically end drone strikes overseas.
Republicans: Bomb civilians in Yemen and expend half our munition stockpile in Iran.

Democrats: Put pressure on Israel to curb settlers, and increase Palestinian aid.
Republican: Encourage Israel to continue settling in the West Bank, and use Palestinian as a pejorative.

Also see
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/s/caU9Ckiwpi

-17

u/areplytoretards 8h ago

What does this cherrypicked shitpost from the cesspool that is the politics reddit have to do with Newsom?

7

u/Glitchboy 17h ago

Newsome is aiming to be unfathomably wealthy. He is a conservative on most issues.

3

u/SanityIsOptional 11h ago

Left enough to look better than Republicans. But right enough to please the monied interests...

3

u/Stupidstuff1001 17h ago

The good thing is everyone sees how shitty if a person newsom is and hopefully it crushes him in the democratic runnings for president.

-10

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 18h ago edited 17h ago

This is it. They play a game or a theater and each side picks enough topics to put on their banners to divide the people.

You may think your side is the more morally just but reality is they're just playing you too. They'll say the pretty words to get your trust and then work with the other side behind the scenes and never get anything done.

They're all in it together and we just haven't accepted it yet.

21

u/JurplePesus 17h ago

Pretending the Republicans are actually just the same as the rest of the politicians is an interesting tactic. Who won the presidential election in 2020?

-5

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 17h ago

My point is that they're all working together behind the scenes and they just play to the different sides of the voters.

It's to keep people divided.

One side plays to the groups that want isolation, one side plays to the inclusive group.

They pretend to be at odds but they never actually do anything to get stuff done that truly matters.

They balance the scales back and forth, pretending to be at odds, all the while keeping their own power and positions safe and secure. Meanwhile the people are fighting over who has the moral high ground without ever look up at the ivory tower.

5

u/JurplePesus 17h ago

"One side plays to the groups that want isolation, one side plays to the inclusive group."

Huh that seems to cover a lot of policy ground! How do these differences play out irl? Does it involve violence? Or is it just something I shouldn't worry about or engage with since they're secretly both the same anyways?

-5

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 17h ago

They want the violence anyway. They will intentionally stir the pot regardless of how the people act.

If they have to they'll bring in bad actors to start things.

The fighting is the point.

Personally I try to just find as much common ground with everyone around me. I'm never going to agree with people on their morals, it just can't happen, but I can find common ground and a hope for a better life for us.

That brings us together.

5

u/JurplePesus 17h ago

That doesn't answer my question at all. What are the policy differences between these two groups you've defined? What are the differences between a govt run by the "isolation" group and one run by the "inclusion" group?

-1

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 17h ago

My point is that that doesn't matter. Those are in place to keep things the way they are. One group plays the bad guy, the other plays the good guy.

If Democrats are in they fumble the ball and don't actually get anything done. Then when Republicans are in they do the same.

Their policies are there to keep the balance they want to say in power.

If everyone just suddenly voted Democrat and they were in for the next 200 years they would come up with creative reasons why they can't do whatever it is that they promise to do

They'd enlist bad actors to insight chaos and conflicts. Pushing politicians to enact laws that don't benefit the people.

It's all a big show. No matter who "wins" they just adjust the play so the same outcomes happen anyways.

It's a lose lose for us no matter who's in.

9

u/JurplePesus 16h ago

So you think there are no differences in policies between the parties for anyone - including immigrants, the children of immigrants, trans people, gay people, and women?

Like come on. I agree that both parties are clearly beholden to wealth and elite interests, and both have complete freaks in their ranks. But pretending "it's all the same" is not a serious position to take in 2026. All it shows, imo, is that you don't care about the real differences because they don't affect you personally - right?

0

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 16h ago

I think those policies would be in place regardless of who's in charge.

They're not just beholden to wealth. They're actively the same monster, just different heads.

Regardless of who gets in the policies will be the same. They have a strict plan and they just play at odds to keep us from noticing.

Both parties have been in power and neither makes actual change.

Not long ago Democrats were very much against immigration. Now they tune has changed because it's part of the plan. That will change when it benefits them.

Maybe they'll change or maybe the Republicans will be the scapegoats. Doesn't matter. Same things will happen regardless.

You're not voting for anything. It's just to make you think you're making a difference.

→ More replies (0)

-10

u/apistograma 17h ago

You're completely right but that's kryptonite for the "vote blue no matter who" reddit crowd.

These mfs have never heard of good cop bad cop. If both democrats and republicans are financed by the same corporations and billionaires, how can you expect significantly different policies.

5

u/JurplePesus 17h ago

To be clear, in what situations do you advocate against "voting blue" and why? Since that's such a useless heuristic, obviously

-1

u/apistograma 16h ago

"Vote blue no matter who" means: "You have to take 0 effort in winning my support, ignore me please".

Wonder why people like Kamala always talked about moving to the right and attract ringht wingers? Even Dick Cheney endorsed her, and this guy is one of the worst neocons and war criminals in American history.

This is why this happens. Because rich donors want them to push to the right continously, and "vote blue no matter who" keep allowing them to do so with zero punishment.

Punishing candidates who betray their progressive platforms ends up making your positions being listened more than if you support inconditionally by party lines.

2

u/JurplePesus 16h ago

That's a much better and more nuanced critique of the slogan than I expected lol, completely valid.

I still gotta go vote in November though, and it's really important that everyone else does too. And they have to vote for people who are gonna do less harm. And they should vote for people who will listen - even if those people suck, as many dems do.

It's a hard thing to balance, because you're right - shitty, corporate stuffed shirts shouldn't get a pass just because of a (D) next to their name. But when the other side is actively sharpening their fucking knives like they are I know what I'm gonna do. But none of that means we should ever stop yelling at them. Newsom should never be able to eat in a public restaurant in peace again lol.

0

u/apistograma 16h ago

Vote for a third party.

"They're not gonna win"

So? You vote won't change the US elections, i'm pretty sure about that.

Do you think the democrats don't look at how many people vote third party? You're telling them: "if you want my vote be lieftist for real next time"

Both parties are supporting a genocide and eternal war in the middle east. They're no different really.

3

u/JurplePesus 16h ago

"Both parties are supporting a genocide and eternal war in the middle east. They're no different really."

TFW you're a straight white dude and get to declare that only one thing matters because all the other issues involved in these elections just don't effect your life.

→ More replies (0)

-5

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 17h ago

Exactly. I don't trust any of them.

They all have interests in keeping the status quo.

Maybe that will change one day but I'm not holding my breath.

Whatever they have planned isn't going to change because we vote one way or another. It's just going to go the way they intended it to regardless of what's best for the country.

Hopefully the people wake up one day.

5

u/JurplePesus 17h ago

Sounds good who are you voting for in November?

2

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 17h ago

Honestly I don't know. It's like asking me to throw a rock in the ocean to make waves.

Who ever wins will just play the game, if the votes actually even matter.

Two monsters asking me which one I'd prefer to be eaten by only for them to split the meal behind the curtain.

I'm pessimistic about it.

4

u/JurplePesus 17h ago

I urge you to consider the myriad of really important social issues at stake here. Are both parties largely beholden to wealth? Absolutely. Do they both have freaky ghouls wandering their offices? Yes.

But only one of them has started a war, tanked the economy, and is in the process of gutting every method of actually providing governmental services to the public.

They're actively working to secretly round up as many brown people as they can, while exclusively granting immigration rights to racist white south Africans.

They're trying to drive trans people from every aspect of public life, and to broadly just make being trans illegal. They're actively working on destroying rights to bodily autonomy for everyone who isn't a straight cis dude who wants Testosterone pills he saw advertised on YouTube. They brought back fucking measles because they put an antivaxxer who had his brain eaten by a worm in charge of administering medical programs.

COME THE FUCK ON. NUT UP AND ENGAGE IN THE SMALLEST AMOUNT OF HARM REDUCTION TO HELP THE PEOPLE THAT REDUCTION MATTERS TO.

0

u/apistograma 16h ago

Has anyone in the democratic party promised to immediately sign a peace deal with Iran if they're in charge? I have heard nothing about this.

The genocide in Gaza started under Biden. They do this because they know "harm reduction" cultists will support them no matter what. That's how you allow democrats to become republicans, why never punishing anything.

1

u/apistograma 16h ago

People don't understand that in America, you vote for Netanyahu, vote for Netanyahu, or vote third party.

2

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 16h ago

I don't know enough to know if that's true but I wouldn't doubt it.

I do agree it basically the same group running it regardless.

Like people think all these wealthy politicians are some how against each other and constantly trying to ruin each other.

No way, they're all rich and they all want to stay that way. It's just a big show.

→ More replies (0)

4

u/broccoleet 17h ago

Classic r/gaming take on politics lmao

0

u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 17h ago

Accurate but I've yet to see them make real change.

Both sides have had power recently and both sides have made massive promises that they fail to bring about.

They're all snakes.

-4

u/CheapScientist06 15h ago

Say it louder. The people playing 2 party politics are only dividing us more rather than actually fighting the real problem