{"id":67484,"date":"2026-02-27T04:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-deal-paving-way-for-paramount-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:06:57","slug":"netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-deal-paving-way-for-paramount-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-deal-paving-way-for-paramount-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming service says \u2018deal no longer financially attractive\u2019 at price required to match Paramount Skydance offer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/27\/netflix-shares-jump-warner-bros-discovery-paramount-news-updates\">Business live  \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Netflix has walked away from its planned takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, declining to raise its offer for the media conglomerate\u2019s storied Hollywood studios and streaming business after it determined a sweetened rival offer from Paramount Skydance to be \u201csuperior\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday evening, Netflix co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said that \u201cat the price required to match Paramount Skydance\u2019s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/feb\/26\/netflix-paramount-warner-bros\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming service says \u2018deal no longer financially attractive\u2019 at price required to match Paramount Skydance offer Business live \u2013 latest updates Netflix has walked away from its planned takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, declining to raise its offer for the media conglomerate\u2019s storied Hollywood studios and streaming business after it determined a sweetened rival offer &#8230; <a title=\"Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-deal-paving-way-for-paramount-victory\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}