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After a tumultuous start to 2025, Warner Bros. ended up with 30 Oscar nominations, the most of any studio.
The Netflix-WBD deal is going through the US regulatory process, and it's the DOJ that has the power to block the merger. Here's how the federal agency can do so.
Feb 2 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery is likely to hold a shareholder vote on the $82.7 billion deal to sell its streaming and studio assets to Netflix in March, CNBC reported on Monday. The HBO owner said no date has been set for the shareholder vote yet and it will be set once the preliminary proxy filing becomes final.
Christopher Nolan speaks out about Netflix buying Warner Bros. as the new president of the DGA
“Time to put up or shut up” for David Ellison if he wants to own the Warner Bros. Discovery media empire – and he’s got a couple of weeks to decide. That’s the message coming from WBD’s mercurial CEO David Zaslav,
Just over a month after the Directors Guild vowed to meet with the companies seeking to acquire Warner Bros, the guild’s president Christopher Nolan confirms that the union has held discussions with both Netflix and Paramount over its concerns about the legendary company being swallowed by a competitor.
Warner Bros. scored a leading 30 Oscar nominations on Thursday morning, collecting a record 16 nods for Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller “Sinners,” as well as 13 for Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedic adventure “One Battle After Another” and one for Amy Madigan’s supporting turn in “Weapons.
The bounty includes 16 nominations for Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' – the most ever bestowed to a single film. Otherwise, there was little love for Hollywood's legacy movie studios.