Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

[BMR Genie]

Wow! Netflix is about to own Hollywood!

"HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 5, 2025 -- Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.

The cash and stock transaction is valued at $27.75 per WBD share (subject to a collar as detailed below), with a total enterprise value of approximately $82.7 billion (equity value of $72.0 billion). The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996912825508462707

 

[Tanko]

Consolidation is a bad thing for the public. Fewer choices. Higher prices.

Expect Netflix to force people to pay more for the subscription as they force HBO/MAX into their streaming.

On the + side, I guess my wife won't be able to sign us up for as many streaming services as they consolidate. I'll still go broke faster but it'll be with fewer, but larger, bills.

 

[BMR Genie]

Consolidation is a bad thing for the public. Fewer choices. Higher prices.

Expect Netflix to force people to pay more for the subscription as they force HBO/MAX into their streaming.

On the + side, I guess my wife won't be able to sign us up for as many streaming services as they consolidate. I'll still go broke faster but it'll be with fewer, but larger, bills.

Si, muy mal. With no more competitions left, prices will go up, but dam, hopefully, the quality will still be the same.

 

[jamesy2422]

netflix is a beast. we provide lumber and building materials to movie and tv studios. they have taken off the last 12 years with streaming. the amount of programming they crank out is impressive.

 

[ttwarrior1]

i get netflix for free. Hopefully price doesnt go up

 

[BMR Genie]

i get netflix for free. Hopefully price doesnt go up

By sharing the acct on the same household?

 

[ttwarrior1]

t mobile customers get apple tv, mlb tv, netflix for free

 

[jjgold]

Consolidation is a bad thing for the public. Fewer choices. Higher prices.

Expect Netflix to force people to pay more for the subscription as they force HBO/MAX into their streaming.

On the + side, I guess my wife won't be able to sign us up for as many streaming services as they consolidate. I'll still go broke faster but it'll be with fewer, but larger, bills.

Yep consumer fukked

 

[BobbyFK]

t mobile customers get apple tv, mlb tv, netflix for free

We get Apple TV? I didn’t know that! I’m on T-Mobile as well. I do know about the Netflix and MLB TV

 

[Tanko]

We get Apple TV? I didn’t know that! I’m on T-Mobile as well. I do know about the Netflix and MLB TV

You have to have Magenta or Magenta MAX plan.

 

[BobbyFK]

You have to have Magenta or Magenta MAX plan.

It wasn’t clear through the app how to get it so I turned to Google and…..

 

[BMR Genie]

t mobile customers get apple tv, mlb tv, netflix for free

I see.

 

[MinnesotaFats]

They will simply shutter the acquired brands & teams. I'd expect thousands of layoffs. This is a competition eliminator, not an acquisition of emerging brands.

 

[Tanko]

Whoa up there people.....

Looks like Paramount wants to buy Warner Bros too.....

Paramount Launches Hostile Takeover for Warner Brothers

 

[BMR Genie]

Whoa up there people.....

Looks like Paramount wants to buy Warner Bros too.....

Paramount Launches Hostile Takeover for Warner Brothers

Wow! Holy moly!!!!!!!!! What a plot twist!

 

[BMR Genie]

$108 Billion!

 

[quantumleap]

I remember when Netflix used to ship DVDs by mail.

 

[MinnesotaFats]

You guys need to buy my second book, coming out in a week, detailing similar wars in the beer wars of the 1980s when everyone was trying to buy Pabst! 3 bidders, injunctions, legislative action. Crazy shit

 

[BMR Genie]

You guys need to buy my second book, coming out in a week, detailing similar wars in the beer wars of the 1980s when everyone was trying to buy Pabst! 3 bidders, injunctions, legislative action. Crazy shit

Are you part of the bidders, Minny? How much did you offer? or you part of the legal team?

 

[aikman.tr]

Imagine...... you can get AUDIBLE for .99C a month. But only for 3 months, then $14.99/m POW.