Paramount reportedly sounded out Elon Musk as investor
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Nice work Bonta and Newsom!!!
David Call198conveniently for elon, HBO owns and is supposed to release the 4hr documentary about him that he wants to block, so that shouldn’t be a problem now
Melissa152Holy crap -. this is really bad. Great job, Gavin.
J.J.71We need new media now. Independent media is important but we need new large scale news outlets. We need actors and others pulling resources to start new production companies like a century ago.
Wendy45Ellison is so far out over his skis on this. He’s overextended & needs the money - but adding Musk to the mix will surely bring down this “empire”. So maybe that’s a good thing? 🤔
googamp32.bsky.social28Good job, Newsom! Can't WAIT to vote against you in the 2028 primaries!
Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️39It saddens me to actually say that Paramount and Warner Bros. just need to die now. They need to be bled financially with failure after failure until they're dead. It's going to be hard. It's going to mean watching new Batman movies is directly supporting this fascist takeover.
✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they)13this is genuinely so fucking scary we're headed into a phase where literally ALL media will be 24/7 fascist propaganda we will not survive
S. Morgan Burbank the Ankle-Posting Harlot5This can only end horribly
Fights🏳️⚧️4🇵🇸Love3Why is this my fault? Yall liberals just love shooting the messenger, don’t you? bsky.app/profile/just...
my personality is "castlevania"3isn't he actually rather cash poor?
Idoia3Even if he only meddled in fiction projects, his media literacy makes the prospect daunting. That man with a (heavy) hand on news is depressing.
Robyn Bennis, Gender Criminal2Feeling better and better about my decision to never pay for anything I can steal.
🔫Scott Martin🛼2What if Ford’s Dearborn Independent was half the national media
Digitomato🌈🍅 ~ 伊邦蕃茄伝2Another step into the consolidation of the American oligarchy
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
e.w. niedermeyer347HOLY SHIT, THERE IT IS RIGHT THERE
Isaiah Bishop72you just know its going to leak
Aleks, no X47Congratulations to Newsome for selling out the film industry to Musk.
vortex_egg45It's crazy-making all of the concern we just had to live through about social media censorship of right-wing disinformation.
Gulliver's Jump Then Fall35Tired: catch and kill a negative news story Wired: catch and kill an entire cable channel
Phineas26Since our merger is in the clear we’re going straight into the corruption phase
mtsw747Guys I keep telling you all about The Plot to Enslave America and people treat it like its some conspiracy theory or something when it's all happening right out there in the open.
shauna332a little catch and kill. as a treat.
Michaël Jarjour138Extremely justified use of all caps
Erin Biba71I feel deeply conflicted right now because on the one hand I don’t want Musk anywhere near this shit and am morally horrified at the idea of burying this movie but I am also tickled and delighted at the idea of someone strong arming and blackmailing Elon Musk for large sums of money.
Nicholas Slayton26Great work there, Newsom and Bonta
Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen12Fuckeroo. So much for ethics in mergers and acquisitions.
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀10Our God-Emperor Billionaires working overtime to censure us from harmful media, thank you God-Emperor Billionaires!!! Your hoarded gold ensures your righteousness in all things!!!
Nicholas Slayton101) shady AF 2) aren't all of these guys leveraging financial assistance from Gulf oil funds already?
Ned7Twitter tough guy in the streets, billionaire bff in the regulatory sheets.
Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor6Grok, what does an antitrust violation look like?
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE will own 49% of all these assets. Ellison is now involving the little Nazi Musk in the complex co-ownership of all content that Americans will consume on TV, in cinemas, and on the Internet. What a wonderful world.
Alan Wolfe6Dont forget video games. They own electronic arts now as well, among other game companies.
redgiaisblue.bsky.social6Another reason to get people back into visiting their local libraries. Aside from books they offer magazines, newspapers from around the globe, DVDs, audiobooks, and so much more depending on how well they're funded.
Jason Bailey55I know it's not remotely the point but it's also wild how all of our evil Bond villains are just the most pasty, wormy, sentient ingrown-toenails of men imaginable
Cinephilia & Beyond19The most massive global boycott of Paramount-Warner Brothers can begin.
daryl "die little, die big" b 🏳️⚧️15it was always going to be like this even with just the ellisons involved, it's the twitter takeover writ large, and that was a great success for what they wanted it for
will14two thoughts: great job democrats letting elon musk potentially influence more of our media ecosystem! and two: damn ellison still doesn't have the money lined up....??
Cinephilia & Beyond12What will we learn next? Musk wants a significant role in Paramount-Warner Brothers' film division, as well as the ability to produce and direct movies with Grok. Stop the madness! Paramount-Warner Brothers is well on its way to total collapse within just a few years—mark our words.
Cinephilia & Beyond10In just two days, we counted over a hundred people from our immediate vicinity who canceled their subscriptions to HBO Max and Paramount+. The first victim in cinemas will unfortunately be Digger.
roscone10If you haven't already, this deal is the perfect time to drop Paramount+ and HBO 🤷♂️
Disappointed Optimist5Economically, politically & socially America has suffered a coup now.
🟡 SCOOP: Paramount executives have discussed asking Elon Musk for an equity investment as it looks to firm up its financial picture to digest Warner Bros. Discovery. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
jayhawkshannon.bsky.social53So all of this angst & lawsuits over a merger, and the buyer doesn’t have all the money to close the deal?
Semafor33Musk’s name is one of a number of wealthy individuals that Paramount CEO David Ellison has considered tapping for the syndicate, people familiar with the matter said. Read more from Rohan Goswami: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Taylor Ledbetter11This is because the gulf funds suddenly got flimsy, isn’t it?
Jim6So together, Musk and the Ellison family will own Twitter/TikTok and over 25% of the Media market. Looks like the American consumer will get F@@ked again.
Dingus Ex Machina5Seems like the sort of thing a viable settlement ought to have covered
Paul Hikari3Let's see how well that plan goes when this movie hits theaters on October 9. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_(f...
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸139this is just the most evil soul crushing shit
Our Flag Means Death Frames27the list of people who would be even worse than david zaslav is not long and yet somehow they've found one of them
Stan Oklobdzija24@gavinnewsom.bsky.social is going to run for president in 2028 and if you vote for him, you are stupid.
Silverman on Security18Here's the question: Is Ellison trying to get Musk & other ultra-high net worth Americans to take an equity stake because the 49.5% stake that Saudi, UAE, & Qatar were supposed to pay for has fallen apart because of Trump losing his war w/Iran & failing to fulfill US security obligations to them?
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛12How about we just (redacted) the billionaires and fuck this whole timeline.
Vee8This is the decor they used to try to appeal to him
scorchtheground |[Switchblade FC] 🎨 🔞8But if normal people need help buying necessities, we’re told to scrimp and save. But this?! Yeah, everyone that could have stopped this just flat out suck. I hope they suffer due to their own stupidity.
Thompson Toboggan (Absolute Era)6Asking for aid from the guy behind making CP with AI Good call, Paramount executives
Alex A. Pagliuca5I want out. How does a disabled writer get the fuck outta this fucking shithole country? The arts has been one of the few things I look at and think, "You know, at least we do that pretty well, despite how hard we try to fuck it up." We just keep handing things to this piece of shit Nazi fuckboi
Jason Karsh5Gonna need to leak that Elon doc if anyone ever wants to see it. I’m just sayin.
Semafor reports David Ellison’s Paramount is looking for cash from Elon Musk as it takes over Warners www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
RIDE THE LIGHTNING!4Warners and Paramount are going to be bailed out by the next president, or by a governor of California. Clearly, there is no fucking money for this fucking merger, and it's just going to implode so fucking hard.
AMPTsuper2This is not a done deal. Doesn't the judge have to sign off on it? "The settlement still needs a final sign-off by a judge." apnews.com/article/warn... 9/21/2026
After working his magic on Twitter, Elon Musk may become an equity investor in the new parent company of CNN, Warner Bros., and TCM. www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
Sandy F5Christ. As if this year hasn’t been enough of a hellscape.
Kate Jones4That Elon Musk hasn't been the target of a fatal lightening bolt is proof that God does not exist.
Erin (Bluesky Version) 🏳️🌈2This is truly the worst timeline.
dwayneadd.bsky.social2Bad news all the way around.
timelady123456781When will this hellscape timeline be over?