Gulf Funds Agree to Back Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover of Warner
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Gulf Funds Agree to Back Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover of Warner
Commitments from Middle East entities will help offset costs for Ellison family
By Jessica Toonkel and Lauren Thomas
Updated April 6, 2026 6:12 am ET

Paramount defeated Netflix to acquire Warner. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Paramount has received signed equity commitments of close to $24 billion from three sovereign-wealth funds led by Saudi Arabia to help back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has agreed to provide roughly $10 billion of the nearly $24 billion to Paramount, run by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
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Gulf Funds Agree to Back Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover of Warner
Commitments from three Middle East entities will help offset costs for the Ellison family.
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Exclusive: Paramount has received signed equity commitments of close to billion from three sovereign-wealth funds led by Saudi Arabia to help back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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cachukis
(3,968 posts)IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,310 posts)... in the past it was Russians and Florida real estate, oh, and anchor babies.
cachukis
(3,968 posts)Saudi economy from oil as a commodity.
Kushner and the Abraham Accords was all about getting Saudi money into the west. Trump bought in and the Saudi money machine is on full blast to persuade Trump to destroy the Shia antithesis to the westernization of the Sunni ignoring the Quran rules on usury.
Not enough understand the dichotomy to the Shia Sunni rivalry.
The Shia believe their Muhammed genetics force them to obey the Quran more strictly.
Their defense of it gets them to heaven.
moonscape
(5,734 posts)Shia believe genetics force greater obedience to the Quran or guarantee heaven. Like Sunnis, they believe people are judged by other things, not lineage.
cachukis
(3,968 posts)a bloodline.
The Shia consider themselves as descendents.
Alice B.
(736 posts)I also misread this as GoFund Me.
Javaman
(65,754 posts)dlk
(13,258 posts)n/r
LymphocyteLover
(9,869 posts)lonely bird
(2,951 posts)Greedy bastards.
LymphocyteLover
(9,869 posts)Maybe there will be springtime for guillotines for these motherfuckers
Orrex
(67,132 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,869 posts)orangecrush
(30,407 posts)LSparkle
(12,194 posts)They want the entertainment industry too.
Fuck em ... SAG-AFTRA will push back and I hope hard. Hollywood is a company town and talent doesnt take kindly to being dictated to.
AverageOldGuy
(3,893 posts)Icanthinkformyself
(390 posts)to put it, "he will slay you". And, just how will he do it. By having us chopped into pieces?
AverageOldGuy
(3,893 posts)Must more precise and clean than chopping.
Multichromatic
(149 posts)This shouldn't be allowed. Saudi Arabia also bought up shares in Activision Blizzard, EA, and Take-Two Interactive. Not to mention the whole LIV golf thing. They also bought up farm land and water rights in California and Arizona to grow alfalfa.
Let's just sell all of the US to Saudi Arabia so Trump can get his bribe err... commission.
bmichaelh
(1,193 posts)WB would never had made Casablanca with that kind of leadership.
Mblaze
(1,054 posts)I will never forget that it was Saudis who flew those planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.