Warner Bros to rebuff $108bn Paramount hostile offer
Hollywood studio and streaming company open to new bid but there are doubts over Ellison family funding
Hollywood studio and streaming company open to new bid but there are doubts over Ellison family funding

Personal guarantee from Oracle’s Larry Ellison insufficient to persuade Hollywood studio’s board

David Ellison’s offer provides ‘untenable degree of risk’ and ‘potential downside’ for WBD shareholders

Board warns shareholders over ‘extraordinary’ amount of debt financing and $4.7bn of costs if it backs out of Netflix deal

Paramount chief executive met investors in New York to push his hostile bid for the Hollywood studio group

Jared Kushner and Middle East funds assist with all-cash offer

Ellison father and son viewed deal as a matter of survival to compete with tech giants that now dominate Hollywood