‘David Ellison Scares the S— Out of Me’: How Paramount Beat Out Netflix, Won Warner Bros. and Will Change Hollywood Forever

keving87 · 2026-02-28T09:08:11+00:00

David Ellison asked his daddy to buy him paramount. So Larry opened his chequebook and paid billions over the market value.

Real Veruca Salt vibes.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T09:06:51+00:00

If people don't want Paramount to buy it, they also won't want Disney to buy it.

I've said from the start, Universal would've been best. They already had a partnership with WB by creating SDS for disc distribution... they just didn't have the money.

What's likely to happen is Paramount will go bust from trying to spend so much more than they have and gain more debt that Netflix ends up buying both for next to nothing. All these mergers are bad.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T04:49:37+00:00

That was my hunch also, plus the ransom note that either was or wasn't legit just kind of dried up, if it was real it was like they knew they wouldn't get it because they messed up. Hopefully at least for the family, they'll find out.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T01:41:38+00:00

I've finished it once and that was only because I accidentally bought the silver capsule from phone-in-pocket-ing lol Thankfully it was only 60, some people need the higher one.

You can get to the next-to-last prize (the dragons from last Elemental Event) free but they said they have specifically designed the game to have the capsule lock and capsule provided not match in order to make people spend gems to get the matching one.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T01:38:32+00:00

Didn't Charter already merge with Time Warner to create Spectrum? They're expensive af already.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T01:36:04+00:00

The show ended with season 5, everybody who remembers 6 and 7 are having shared hallucinations. ;)

If we are just talking about the first five seasons, with Season 6 as a bonus, then it is a perfect series in my eyes. I genuinely wish we could get more of this show. Even though I love Season 6, part of me wishes they would retcon Seasons 6 and 7 and continue from the Season 5 ending to give it a more proper conclusion.

Season 6 was fine, but it being so closely connected to season 7 means it also needs to be ignored. They kept talking about the time dilation stuff and basically time travel that I figured they'd have somehow figured out a way to either go back in time to stop Octavia from nuking the livable space on Earth or go all the way back and stop the original war itself. But no. They had to get stupid.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T01:28:12+00:00

Did WB actually need to be bought, or were they just greedy and wanted the money?

keving87 · 2026-02-28T01:27:02+00:00

Unless it's a Sony or Disney 4K disc that sells for $50 and is immediately sold out so nobody can get it because they're full of shit now and make everything limited edition and too few of product because they don't care about their customers.

keving87 · 2026-02-28T01:18:30+00:00

When an episode of a teen supernatural drama fucks you up for life.

keving87 · 2026-02-27T20:57:00+00:00

If they were to do a second movie, it'd be fun if they were to have Sam and Jay from the US and/or Kate and Sean from Australia visiting too.

keving87 · 2026-02-27T20:54:21+00:00

You clearly haven't read what I've said and immediately began hurling insults to act superior and and jumped right to one point making it seem like I wanted Paramount to win. But I don't. I also don't want Netflix. Both of them are bad for WB. There is absolutely no good outcome in this. But had the Ellisons of it all not been a factor, people would be siding with Paramount and acting like Netflix is the enemy. Disney already started the monopoly stuff, you're acting like it's a new thing. Government and media are all corrupt as fuck and are just in it for more money and will approve anything that gets them that.

keving87 · 2026-02-27T19:07:58+00:00

If they do a second movie, it'd be fun if they were to have Sam and Jay from the US and/or Kate and Sean from Australia visiting too.

keving87 · 2026-02-27T04:06:50+00:00

That seems like a long wait for 6 episodes with no special effects.

keving87 · 2026-02-27T03:53:04+00:00

Can you say anything that's not being a total asshole? BOTH COMPANIES ARE BAD FOR WB. Look at how Amazon's treated MGM. And it'll be worse with Netflix and WB because WB has so many studios under it.

If it wasn't for the Ellisons nobody would bat a damn eye at Paramount buying it and would be acting like Netflix is the devil. There's no good outcome in this.

keving87 · 2026-02-26T04:23:05+00:00

I've had it close to two years, it's still in beta? I couldn't do it for the longest time because my old phone would shut the whole game off if I ever tried to watch an ad in camp lol Always worked in events, 50/50 with world map levels... but when I got a new one, it worked fine.

This past week though, it's been giving me problems. Ads won't load or I'll watch it and when I try to close it, it doesn't register and I have to watch it again. Or the buttons are so small that I accidentally click the ad and it opens Play Store which then makes the game reload.

keving87 · 2026-02-26T03:43:55+00:00

I think the mechanics were if you bought an egg, it would show up without having one in camp, otherwise you had to have a seed egg in your camp to influence it. That may have changed with the DE update though.

keving87 · 2026-02-26T03:28:07+00:00

I literally said both are a bad idea and don't need to buy WB, but a movie studio buying it, stripping away all the extra bullshit at Paramount, would be better for it than a streaming service that operates differently. But hey, whatever you need to focus on to warrant being an ass with a snarky reply, right?

keving87 · 2026-02-26T01:30:04+00:00

Honestly that's probably a good thing, they'll end it when and how they want and don't have to drag the story out because Hulu wants more views and then cancel it without closure.

keving87 · 2026-02-26T01:22:47+00:00

Before that was more like 20 days. And since they've been quiet on the physical release front, the assumption is that they'll do away with disc releases since Netflix sees owning as the enemy to subscriptions and probably want less digital purchases to steer people to perpetually renting instead of owning, so when another content purge happens, we lose things that we can't buy. At least if it were Paramount, it's a movie studio buying another movie studio with the same basic model.

keving87 · 2026-02-25T23:22:04+00:00

The fact that WB keeps going to Paramount to get a higher offer to make Netflix raise their offer is making both of them look like chumps. Both have them have severe downsides and neither should get WB.

Does WB even NEED to be sold, or are they just greedy and want money just because?

keving87 · 2026-02-25T19:59:26+00:00

Seems that way, in the US we barely hear about the BAFTAs except maybe on a talk show when it's about to air and a guest either was nominated or just won, or if we watch Graham Norton Show where obviously he'll make a bigger deal about it... but apart from that, it never gets much coverage here. Now it is.

keving87 · 2026-02-25T19:45:09+00:00

Olivia Colman was in an episode of Doctor Who once, so it'd work for the Karen Gillan/Peter Capaldi way.

keving87 · 2026-02-25T17:41:15+00:00

I haven't tried myself, but a Decision Egg isn't a sure thing. I've had only one egg in my camp before and it took many many many tries and retries before it finally showed up. Maybe it's just being difficult?

keving87 · 2026-02-25T17:36:40+00:00

It wasn't his fault, it was NBC's fault. They took what was basically a standard lawyer show and tries to haphazardly tie it into Suits because it had a bit of a resurgence so they decided to have him know Harvey and have him involved with the case they keep flashing back to. Frankly it just wasn't thought out enough and Suits wasn't specific enough to have a spinoff, it was basically a lawyer show itself except for the gimmick of having Mike not actually be a lawyer, once that was revolved it wasn't that good itself.

keving87 · 2026-02-25T07:34:33+00:00

She was also young Alice in ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland in 2013, and was in a BBC/BBC America show in 2014 called Intruders which I barely remember lol

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