How High Will the Ellisons Go?

David Ellison
Hours after David Ellison’s lawyers sent that December 4 letter calling B.S. on the sale process and eviscerating Zaslav for favoring one bidder over another, Ellison sent a cringey makeup text to the Warner Discovery C.E.O., desperately trying to woo him back. Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
December 9, 2025

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So, who’s gonna get Warner Bros.? Hard to go anywhere in town right now without getting asked, right? But beyond the egos and the all-cash offers and the ridiculous Trump tantrums dominating the hard-to-believe headlines, the fact remains that even after the Warner Discovery board approved a landmark $72 billion sale to Netflix, nobody knows what’s gonna happen.