Who Wants Warner Bros. More?

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WBD is in Revlon mode and has to sell to the highest bidder. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
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William D. Cohan
December 16, 2025

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As the worlds of Hollywood, media, and politics all await word on whether the Ellison family will succeed in its attempt to claw Warner Bros. Discovery from Netflix, many complicated questions remain. To attempt to answer them, I asked Puck’s corporate finance expert, Bill Cohan, a former M&A banker and the author of Dry Powder, to open a Google Doc with me and go back and forth…