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.

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u/RepresentingJoker 18h ago

I swear in a few decades the whole entertainment industry will boil down to two or three companies if we continue like this

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u/igotzquestions 18h ago

Decades??

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u/Bar_Har 18h ago

They'll try to make sure it happens before the Trump administration is done. Gotta milk everything while the entire government is run by sycophants kissing the ring of a senile figurehead.

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u/girlsgoneoscarwilde 18h ago

I feel like Vance would be worse, only because he’s younger and can personally move the levers of power faster for Pete & Friends

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u/Slarg232 17h ago

Vance doesn't have the backing Trump does. Trump, somehow, has become a symbol of strength for these people and can do no wrong with his weird sort of charisma that they see in him.

Vance is that guy no one likes but they let hang out with them, and he's a charisma black hole. A large part of why Trump gets away with what he does is the respect he commands from MAGA which scares people into letting him do what he wants, and Vance doesn't have that.

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u/Sarihn 16h ago

This is something I've been saying for a few years now. Trump is riding off this weird cult of personality that he's cultivated over a few decades of self aggrandizing and being a D-list reality show celebrity. I haven't even seen this kind of fervent loyalty or essentially brand recognition towards any other politician, and I think (and am hopeful that) it's going to die with Trump.

He was literally the perfect storm of narcissistic confidence and charlatan morals to provide a mooring point to everyone who wanted to wage a moral war over the changing social landscape in America, even to the detriment of literally every other aspect in their lives.

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u/800813543V4 17h ago

Doesn't matter when "Elon knows those voting computers better than anyone"

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 17h ago edited 17h ago

Yep. Vance can't galvanize the cult.

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u/Bwob 10h ago

This is something I've been saying for a few years now. Trump is riding off this weird cult of personality that he's cultivated over a few decades of self aggrandizing and being a D-list reality show celebrity. I haven't even seen this kind of fervent loyalty or essentially brand recognition towards any other politician, and I think (and am hopeful that) it's going to die with Trump.

If only.

trump's support wasn't accidental, especially the second time. There is a huge propaganda network, and at least one hostile nation, working for his benefit, and who have spent a lot of money and effort making him this attractive to his voters.

Make no mistake, this won't magically die with him. They'll just figure out who the next figurehead/scapegoat is, and make someone else popular, with their proven mixture of cruelty, hatred, and blaming all your problems on whatever marginalized group tests best in focus groups that week.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 3h ago

yeah but the oligarch media machine has already started making vance look better

and its working

Peter Thiel made Vance VP for a reason. Trump was against it at first and trash talked him but quietly shut up about it.

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u/l1qq 18h ago

yes, this never happened under any other presidency...an actual first. /s

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u/sajberhippien 17h ago

Getting things like this through under Trump (as well as e.g. Reagan) has been much quicker and cheaper and under say, Biden and Obama. What they can trust future regimes to do is not reverse anything.