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mahatmakanejeeves

(69,942 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:04 AM 5 hrs ago

Gulf Funds Agree to Back Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover of Warner

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

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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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Exclusive: 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.

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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6:34 AM · Apr 6, 2026
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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.

The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) 2026-04-06T10:34:47.132555Z
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Gulf Funds Agree to Back Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover of Warner (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 5 hrs ago OP
Of course. cachukis 4 hrs ago #1
Smells like some kind of money laundering scheme(s) I have read about.... IthinkThereforeIAM 3 hrs ago #12
My sense it is from MBS' desire to transform the cachukis 3 hrs ago #14
It's not accurate that moonscape 28 min ago #19
Did not mean to imply that it is a genetic force, but cachukis 11 min ago #21
Aside from "great. Just great..." Alice B. 4 hrs ago #2
I hope at some time in the future, this deal gets shitcanned under anti-trust laws. nt Javaman 3 hrs ago #3
Let the right-wing propaganda begin... dlk 3 hrs ago #4
Freaking disgusting-- billionaires are destroying our democracy, it's clear as day LymphocyteLover 3 hrs ago #5
Hell, destroying the world lonely bird 3 hrs ago #6
Yes-- that too LymphocyteLover 3 hrs ago #7
But if we feed them into a woodchipper, suddenly **we're** the bad guys. Orrex 3 hrs ago #13
LMAO... funny how that's works LymphocyteLover 2 hrs ago #16
Of course orangecrush 3 hrs ago #8
Jared Goes To Hollywood LSparkle 3 hrs ago #9
Does this mean the Saudis will own a major segment of our public media? AverageOldGuy 3 hrs ago #10
Interesting way Icanthinkformyself 3 hrs ago #11
Bone saw AverageOldGuy 2 hrs ago #15
Is Trump just going to let the Saudis buy up everything in the US? Multichromatic 53 min ago #17
Casablanca bmichaelh 44 min ago #18
No matter what countries we attack on false pretenses Mblaze 19 min ago #20

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,310 posts)
12. Smells like some kind of money laundering scheme(s) I have read about....
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:57 AM
3 hrs ago

... in the past it was Russians and Florida real estate, oh, and anchor babies.

cachukis

(3,968 posts)
14. My sense it is from MBS' desire to transform the
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:12 AM
3 hrs ago

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)
19. It's not accurate that
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 11:49 AM
28 min ago

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)
21. Did not mean to imply that it is a genetic force, but
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 12:06 PM
11 min ago

a bloodline.
The Shia consider themselves as descendents.

LSparkle

(12,194 posts)
9. Jared Goes To Hollywood
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:40 AM
3 hrs ago

They want the entertainment industry too.

Fuck em ... SAG-AFTRA will push back and I hope hard. Hollywood is a company town and talent doesn’t take kindly to being dictated to.

Icanthinkformyself

(390 posts)
11. Interesting way
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:50 AM
3 hrs ago

to put it, "he will slay you". And, just how will he do it. By having us chopped into pieces?

Multichromatic

(149 posts)
17. Is Trump just going to let the Saudis buy up everything in the US?
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 11:24 AM
53 min ago

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.

Mblaze

(1,054 posts)
20. No matter what countries we attack on false pretenses
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 11:58 AM
19 min ago

I will never forget that it was Saudis who flew those planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

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