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The response from theater owners was lukewarm, and maybe for good reason: they've been here before.

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Paramount film co-head Josh Greenstein said "Top Gun 3" was "officially in development with a script well underway."

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An open letter signed by hundreds of Hollywood heavyweights was published Monday opposing a deal that would see the historic Warner Bros. studio swallowed by rival Paramount.

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US media conglomerate Paramount Skydance announced Friday it will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal valuing the combined company at $110 billion, after beating Netflix in a bruising bidding war.

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Paramount Skydance, run by pro-Trump technology heir David Ellison, was poised to take control of Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday after Netflix said it would not raise its takeover offer, ending one of the biggest media bidding wars in a generation.

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Warner Brothers Discovery formally rejected an offer from Paramount Skydance for the entire company.

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The Warner Bros. Discovery board "unanimously determined that Paramount Skydance's tender offer... is not in the best interests of WBD and its shareholders."

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Warner Bros. Discovery rejected a hostile takeover bid by Paramount launched last week to trump plans by streaming giant Netflix to acquire the Hollywood giant.

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Paramount launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Discovery in a challenge to Netflix's own highly contested deal.

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Netflix has made a mostly cash offer to buy TV and film group Warner Bros Discovery as the storied yet debt-laden Hollywood studio presses on with a sale that could remake the US media landscape.

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Paramount film co-head Josh Greenstein said "Top Gun 3" was "officially in development with a script well underway."

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Paramount Skydance, run by pro-Trump technology heir David Ellison, was poised to take control of Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday after Netflix said it would not raise its takeover offer, ending one of the biggest media bidding wars in a generation.

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Warner Bros. Discovery rejected a hostile takeover bid by Paramount launched last week to trump plans by streaming giant Netflix to acquire the Hollywood giant.

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Paramount launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Discovery in a challenge to Netflix's own highly contested deal.

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Netflix has made a mostly cash offer to buy TV and film group Warner Bros Discovery as the storied yet debt-laden Hollywood studio presses on with a sale that could remake the US media landscape.

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