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Have We Reached Peak Ellison Anxiety?

The surest sign that the Ellisons are still frontrunners in the WBD sweepstakes? The chorus of industry critics is growing—and fantasizing about other options. Meanwhile, the PSKY team might be looking to take its bid over the top with help from abroad.

Larry Ellison, David Ellison
The one thing everybody knows is that Larry Ellison could end this contest instantly if he decided to make an offer the WBD board couldn’t refuse. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Kim Masters
November 3, 2025

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Setting aside the chronic hum of A.I. anxiety, Hollywood is pretty much a one-obsession town right now. So yes, the chatter at Thursday’s dinner honoring David Zaslav with the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Award focused almost entirely on the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery. After all, at least two-thirds of the industry’s power elite were gathered in the Beverly Wilshire ballroom, which was so densely packed that I wondered what the fire marshal was doing that night.