Key Highlights
- Dinging David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, the owner of the Globes’ broadcast network CBS since August who is in the midst of a fight for WBD, Glaser called CBS News “Americans’ newest place to ‘See BS News’ ” and offered it a mock award for “Most Editing.” Related Stories News ‘Hamnet’ & ‘One Battle After Another’ Take Top Film Prizes At Golden Globes – Full Winners List News Golden Globes Photos: The Best Looks From The Red Carpet The Globes happened to fall directly in the eye of a major Hollywood storm that’s pitting Paramount against Netflix in a fight for WBD, which put itself on the auction block several months ago.
- The media company led by David Zaslav agreed to sell its film and TV studios, HBO and HBO Max to the giant streamer run by Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, rebuffing multiple offers from Paramount.
- Paramount has taken its offer directly to shareholders with a hostile tender offer that runs through January 21.
- Watch on Deadline Meanwhile, there’s a massive PR battle underway.
- Warners’ board advised shareholders to reject the Paramount offer, which is for $30 a share in cash and backstopped by Ellison’s ultra-rich father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
