Late last week, Netflix struck an $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. However, a recent report from Bloomberg suggests that before the Warner Bros. bidding war started, the streaming giant had flirted with the idea of pursuing EA Games, Fox (before the Disney merger), or Disney itself.
The Golden Globes nominees were announced Monday morning with some surprise picks for the year’s best in television and film, and some even more surprising snubs. Among the most shocking names not appearing as prominently — or in one case, not appearing at all — are the film Wicked: For Good and actress Sydney Sweeney.
What David Ellison and Paramount did Monday morning — issuing a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery for $108 billion — sent shockwaves through the industry. Now that the dust has settled, analysts are working through how Paramount was able to make such a monumental all-cash offer.
Paramount, led by David Ellison, isn’t giving up its bid to win Warner Bros. Late last week the Warner Bros. board announced it had accepted an $82.7 billion proposal from Netflix. It’s an offer Ellison tells shareholders is an “inferior proposal.” He has since launched an attempted hostile takeover after the historically brutal bidding war.
Four years after settling her lawsuit with Disney, Scarlett Johansson is looking back on the experience.
If there were any remaining doubts that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) was looking to make inroads into global entertainment, they have been effectively removed. New details of the $55 billion private buyout of the video game company Electronic Arts (EA) first announced in September reveal that Saudi Arabia will own 93.4% of EA.
After three years of waiting, fans of Stranger Things returned to Hawkins in record numbers. Season five debuted on November 26th, and in its first five days accumulated 59.6 million views worldwide. That’s not just impressive — it’s record-breaking.
If Avatar: Fire and Ash is as big a box office success as anticipated, the film’s release is a prime opportunity for studios to debut some major trailers. There are several 2026 tentpole releases of which filmgoers have yet to see anything more than some production photos.
On Tuesday, pop star Sabrina Carpenter scolded the White House for using her song “Juno” in a video montage of ICE arrests.
While doing press for his upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, filmmaker James Cameron spoke out against generative AI. “They can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt,” the director said on CBS Sunday Morning. “That’s horrifying to me.”
According to Mark Kern, the former Blizzard developer known as Grummz on X, Ghost of Yotei, the highly anticipated sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, still hasn’t caught up to its predecessor. In fact, the gap between the two is getting worse. And Kern has been right before.
What’s one more legacy sequel? Macaulay Culkin, who famously played Kevin McCallister in the first two Home Alone movies, says he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to returning for a third true Home Alone sequel (we’ll pretend the others never happened).