Netflix Acquisition Of Warner Bros Comes With Hidden Super Powers [Forbes]
Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. - Series A (WBD)
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Source: Forbes
I'm going to buy Superman's publisher for $83 billion! Netflix has the inside track on acquiring Warner Bros Studios from Discovery, a trove of classic American IP that includes, among other things, DC Comics and its film, television, licensing and animation derivatives. While the Netflix deal has a host of regulatory and other challenges to clear, it is not too early to start gaming out what the change in ownership could mean for the country's oldest comic book publisher. DC's latest cinematic universe, under the stewardship of James Gunn and Peter Safran, has barely uttered “up, up and away!” but is already showing promise, with Superman pulling a respectable $616 million this summer, good for #9 on the 2025 box office revenue charts. Meanwhile, The Batman Part II , a followup to the successful 2022 reboot of the franchise under director Matt Reeves, is slated for 2027. Other DC projects like The Lanterns and a third season of Gunn's action-comedy Peacemaker , are also in the pi
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- WBD's David Zaslav Soothes Staff ‘Trepidation' Over Merger Layoffs, Says Netflix Wants ‘To Keep Most People' [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
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