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Paramount Skydance prepares Ellison-backed bid for Warner Bros Discovery, WSJ reports  Reuters Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery  The Wall Street Journal S&P 500 Gains & Losses Today: Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Soars; Oracle, Netflix Slip  Investopedia Trader Hits Instant $5 Million Jackpot With Warner Bros Bet  Bloomberg.com Here’s what Paramount Skydance would be buying in a deal for …

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery  The Wall Street Journal Warner Bros. Discovery stock is up 25% after report Paramount Skydance is preparing a takeover bid  CNBC Warner Bros. Discovery Shares Spike on Report David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Readying Acquisition Bid  Variety Paramount Skydance Is Preparing a Bid for Warner Bros.  Bloomberg.com Paramount Skydance prepares Ellison-backed bid for Warner …

Signage at the Warner Bros. Discovery headquarters in New York, US, on Thursday, June 12, 2025. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery shares soared more than 25% Thursday afternoon on a report from the The Wall Street Journal that the recently merged Paramount Skydance was preparing a takeover bid. Shares of Paramount Skydance were up …

Jaws dropped in disbelief across Hollywood when The Conjuring: Last Rites opened to a record-smashing $84 million domestically over the Sept. 5-7 weekend, instead of an expected $35 million-plus. Put another way, the New Line and Warner Bros. horror pic earned nearly as much in its North American debut, if not more, than some of the previous eight titles in the Conjuring Universe …

Talk about a scary-good box office streak. “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” which scored a franchise-best launch of $83 million domestically and $187 million globally over the weekend, has extended an epic theatrical run for Warner Bros. as the seventh consecutive release to open above $40 million. No other studio has ever achieved that level of consistency at the box office. …

UPDATED, with MPA statement: Warner Bros. Discovery is the latest legacy media company to challenge the use of its content in generative AI, filing suit against Midjourney, claiming that the company is engaged in the “theft” of its intellectual property. With the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, WBD is joining The Walt Disney Co. …

Warner Bros. sued Midjourney on Thursday, becoming the third studio to accuse the AI image-generating platform of blatant copyright violations. In the complaint, Warner Bros. alleges that Midjourney willfully creates both still images and video of its characters, including Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tom and Jerry. The complaint also alleges that Midjourney recently eliminated guardrails that blocked …

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “countless” infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and more. Warner Bros. Discovery accuses Midjourney …

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing a prominent artificial intelligence image generator for copyright infringement, escalating a high-stakes battle involving the use of movies and TV shows owned by major studios to teach AI systems. The lawsuit accuses Midjourney, which has millions of registered users, of building its business around the mass theft of content. The company “brazenly dispenses Warner Bros. …

Channing Tatum revealed in a new Variety cover story that Gambit will be somewhat softening his Cajun accent in “Avengers: Doomsday,” which is now in production. Tatum debuted as the Marvel superhero in last year’s “Deadpool and Wolverine” after spending years trying and failing to get a standalone Gambit movie made under 20th Century Fox. A running joke in “Deadpool …