Everything you need to know about the Warner Bros. sale (so far)
The Business · KCRW
December 12, 202530m 2s
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Show Notes
<p dir="ltr">With Netflix’s bombshell move to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/">acquire</a> Warner Bros. still reverberating through the town, Paramount has gone fully <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-launches-hostile-bid-for-warner-bros-1236444601/">hostile</a>–bypassing Warner leadership and taking its case straight to shareholders. Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw break down the latest maneuvering in a saga that seems to sprout new twists by the day.</p>
<p><strong id="docs-internal-guid-05f1e0a5-7fff-7be8-5eb9-2c9a199ce164"><br></strong>Also, with Kim Masters sidelined by a bug this week, Belloni presents a few bonus stories from Masters's recent conversations: Wake Up Dead Man writer-director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman talk about the green room they devised for the first Knives Out–a space that became so essential to the ensemble’s chemistry that trailers sat mostly empty. And Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy explains why, despite the runaway success of Deadpool & Wolverine, he’s not sprinting toward a sequel just yet.</p>