{
  "id": 12438696,
  "title": "RedBird Ponied Up $4 Billion to Fund Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery Takeover",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/redbird-ponied-up-4-billion-to-fund-paramounts-warner-bros-discovery",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-06T18:17:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/redbird-4-billion-investment-paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-1236902647/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "RedBird Capital Partners, led by Gerry Cardinale, invested $4 billion into Paramount’s deal to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery, the biggest Hollywood M&A deal in history, a source familiar with the deal confirmed to Variety. RedBird had already invested $2 billion in David Ellison’s Skydance Media for its takeover of Paramount Global, a deal that […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "How David Ellison Won the Battle: Timeline of Paramount’s Rocky Road to Acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/how-david-ellison-won-the-battle-timeline-of-paramounts-rocky-road-to",
        "published": "2026-10-06T14:10:27.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "Fitch Downgrades Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery Credit Ratings as Merger Closes",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/fitch-downgrades-paramount-warner-bros-discovery-credit-ratings-as",
        "published": "2026-10-06T14:32:32.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "Paramount closes $110bn deal with Warner Bros Discovery: The new firm is Skydance",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/paramount-closes-110bn-deal-with-warner-bros-discovery-the-new-firm",
        "published": "2026-10-06T16:59:51.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}