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As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries. The FCC cleared the way on Thursday, granting sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to hold indirect equity interests in a Paramount-Warner combo, but no voting stakes. Skydance-owned Paramount — whose $81 billion merger with Warner is still on hold amid a separate antitrust battle with twelve states and Hollywood writers — welcomed the FCC's ruling.

Bloomberg's Hannah Miller joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Paramount has acknowledged that it's considering a wide range of options to settle lawsuits challenging its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Paramount Skydance is seeking a $1.88-billion bond to cover losses from the antitrust lawsuit that delayed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Paramount on Friday agreed to delay closing its $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery well into next year, as a judge continues to consider a challenge from 12 states seeking to block the deal altogether. In a court filing, Paramount said it wouldn’t close the merger until either a court ruling is made on the merits of the states’ lawsuit or June 1, 2027. The move arrives just days after U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order to freeze the transaction for several weeks, ruling that the states had raised some “serious questions” and a strong case about the merger's potential to “substantially lessen competition.”

Commitment to terminate its stake in European distribution venture with Universal Pictures eased regulators’ concerns.

The Writers Guild of America became the latest group to challenge Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit that seeks to block the merger on the grounds it would cause “specific harm” to movie and TV writers working across the U.S. A Paramount-Warner merger “threatens the economic and creative health of the American entertainment industry,” reads Tuesday's federal complaint, which was filed by both the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East (jointly the WGA). “This proposed combined entity would be the largest employer of writers, with tremendous power to suppress our wages, eliminate opportunities for emerging writers, cut jobs across the industry, and produce less programming," WGAE President Tom Fontana said in a statement.

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Investing.com -- Warner Music Group Corp. (NASDAQ:WMG) reported second-quarter results that exceeded analyst expectations, with shares climbing 3.9% in after-hours trading Thursday following the announcement of a film partnership with Paramount Pictures.

Paramount Skydance Corp (NASDAQ:PSKY) shares fell nearly 5% on Tuesday morning after the media company reported first-quarter earnings the previous evening, as investors looked past a stronger-than-expected profit result and focused instead on underwhelming forward guidance. Shares initially...

Paramount Skydance reported first-quarter results after Monday’s close, its first report since winning the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery.