David and Larry Ellison have got a huge amount of money for sure, and I don’t think there is a huge amount of hesitancy to spend it. “If you want to really nail down these franchises and have them at your disposal for the long-term, and Warner Bros. aside from Disney is the second best studio I think, with those franchises in place, it just makes a lot of sense,” Mayer said. As he weighed the offers, the executive found them “roughly equal,” depending on the valuation one puts on the cable networks company that WBD would spin off to shareholders in the case of a Netflix deal.
Author: Tess Patton
Published at: 2025-12-09 23:47:47
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