{"id":342206,"date":"2025-11-27T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dana.nwar.uk\/sa\/david-zaslav-hosts-stars-ahead-of-warner-bros-discovery-sale\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:17:43","slug":"david-zaslav-hosts-stars-ahead-of-warner-bros-discovery-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/david-zaslav-hosts-stars-ahead-of-warner-bros-discovery-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"David Zaslav Hosts Stars Ahead of Warner Bros. Discovery Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guess who\u2019s coming to dinner? If you\u2019re David Zaslav, the answer is \u201cmost of Hollywood.\u201d The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO feted LuckyChap champions Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley among a consortium of media moguls including Oprah Winfrey, filmmaker Nancy Meyers, CAA head Bryan Lourd, and Saturday Night Live<\/em> boss Lorne Michaels in LA on November 19. Al Pacino, Sandra Bullock, Jonah Hill, Bette Midler, and Kristen Wiig were also in attendance. The next day, Zaslav received the first round of offers to purchase WBD, per Variety<\/em><\/a>. He reportedly told the crowd his plan was to get on a red-eye flight and head to New York to consider the offers. Sources added that the conversation during the evening was not focused on the sale but the projects they were all respectively working on. No need to talk about the sword of Damocles if it\u2019s just hanging over everyone\u2019s heads anyway.<\/p>\n

Paramount, Comcast, and Netflix all submitted bids, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>. If Paramount wins out, it would be the second major studio purchased by David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Comcast already owns Universal but could use WBD\u2019s HBO Max to take its domestic streaming service, Peacock, worldwide. The only reported buyer that doesn\u2019t already have a theatrical studio is Netflix, because the company refuses to put its movies in wide release. However, CEO Ted Sarandos told WB its films would be in theaters if the offer goes through, per Bloomberg<\/a>. Earlier this year, Netflix missed out on LuckyChap\u2019s Wuthering Heights<\/em> them<\/a> Bros. because the company refused to commit to a wide theatrical release. Next, there will likely be more rounds of bidding, for THR<\/em>and once a buyer is chosen, the deal will have to be approved by President Trump\u2019s FCC. What will Trump\u2019s Special Envoy to Hollywood Jon Voight think about this?<\/p>\n