Part of Paramount-Skydance Merger Battle · 4 stories · since Sep 11 · newest 2h ago
Paramount executives discuss adding Elon Musk as Warner Bros. deal investorCommenters question combined company's debt load
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A Reddit commenter speculated the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery entity carries roughly $40 billion in acquisition debt and predicted possible spinoffs or financial distress within years, partly tying it to consumer backlash against Musk.
“golly it's almost as if these right wing oligarchs are collaboratively dismantling systems designed to ensure informed electoral consensus”
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Elon Musk SpaceX/Tesla/X CEO, potential Paramount investorDavid Ellison Paramount CEO
Larry Ellison Oracle founder, key Paramount financierParamount Company at center of the story
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 3 claims were published in its stretch
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first by The Wrap, 10h ago · also Semafor, Variety, Deadline, NY Post
4 more headlines
- Exclusive / Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment Semafor · 8h ago
- David Ellison Mulls Tapping Elon Musk for Paramount Investment While Closing in on Warner Bros. Takeover: Report Variety · 8h ago
- Paramount Eyes Elon Musk For Investment As WBD Deal Nears Finish Line – Report Mastodon · 8h ago
- David Ellison reportedly eyes Elon Musk for Paramount equity investment — sparking fears at CNN: ‘Really scary’ NY Post · 8h ago
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first by Consequence, 8h ago · also Independent UK, The New Republic
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- Elon Musk eyed as investor for Warner-Paramount merger: report The Independent · 8h ago
- Elon Musk Could Get Stake in CBS and CNN Under Paramount Merger The New Republic · 8h ago
- Elon Musk suggested as investor for Warner-Paramount merger that would put him in group running CNN and CBS News Independent UK · 6h ago
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first by New Republic, 9h ago
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What people said 12 voices · verbatim
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🚨 OHH BOY! 🔥 Paramount is reportedly considering asking Elon Musk to join a group of equity investors as it moves forward with its massive Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Think about that for a second. ELON MUSK COULD POTENTIALLY BECOME A PARTIAL OWNER OF PARAMOUNT, WHICH WOULD
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https:// deadline.com/2026/09/david-ell ison-paramount-elon-musk-investment-warner-merger-1237111566/ What a shocker *now* this rears its ugly fascist head. Using the playbook all the ultra rich use. Borrow off of a bullshit stock *value* and get *real* money you can use to break things; real money that doesn't even count as income because it's a…
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I expect we will see in a few years that either skydance is broke and closed or they will spin off warner and paramont to cover there debts. 40B in debt for the purchase, and if they do move the entire studio to tx (they won;t) that would be another couple billion in debt. This was prolly a stupid choice by skydance to buy both at once. and if…
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🔥 The CEO of Paramount is reportedly considering asking ELON MUSK to get involved in the merger with Paramount-Warner Bros — which would mean CNN AND CBS fall under that umbrella The most entertaining outcome 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Elon would technically have OWNERSHIP INTEREST in
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Paramount’s David Ellison Considers Joining Forces With Elon Musk https:// newrepublic.com/post/215769/pa ramount-merger-david-ellison-elon-musk-cbs-cnn?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Breaking News @ breaking-news-thenewrepublic
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This is a damn disgrace. Call your AGs and tell them to oppose the merger no matter what, explicitly tell them to throw away the settlement deal, now or never.
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This will go well... Paramount executives have discussed asking Musk to join a group of investors putting money into the company, Semafor’s Rohan Goswami reported Wednesday. Musk is reportedly one of several wealthy people Paramount CEO David Ellison has considered approaching, though the size of any potential investment is unknown. https://www…
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Thanks, Bonta and especially you Newsom for forcing this settlement. I hope your presidential campaign is even more DOA.
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Any Star Trek produced under a Paramount-Warner Bros partially owned by Elon Musk would be dead to me. I wouldn't even touch it with a ten foot pole from the yardarm of a pirate ship. # Paramount # ElonMusk David Ellison Mulls Tapping Elon Musk for Paramount Investment While Closing in on Warner Bros. Takeover: Report https://…
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If this doesn't trigger antitrust action when adults have power again, nothing ever will
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golly it's almost as if these right wing oligarchs are collaboratively dismantling systems designed to ensure informed electoral consensus Exclusive: Paramount weighs ta...
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Paramount’s David Ellison is considering joining forces with Elon Musk.
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