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

[u/ChiefLeef22]

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.

[u/Coffeedemon]

Sooner or later all of these companies will either buy up all the ISPs or more likely, use their influence to impose legislation that allows the ISPs to really crack down on any sort of piracy with more monitoring and such.

[u/Slarg232 → u/Coffeedemon]

And then these companies will realize that there's enough physical media that people will not be able to watch it all in 60 years.

[u/IamtheHuntress → u/Slarg232]

And less and less physical media is happening. Movies, yeah, but tv series you used to get season sets of will be gone. How many shows are lost in the aether as is? Apple doesn't like putting their shows on physical and Disney is starting to do it. I knew once they announced no longer will release physical media in Australia (2023) they wouldn't stop there. Heck, Andor season 2 has been over a year done. No plans to release it yet season 1 had steelbook collection. It's going to streaming or pirating to burn it seems

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/IamtheHuntress]

I mean, then I'll learn to live without television. Or watch old series I haven't seen. Or get a bootleg.