Ted Sarandos is so over Warner Bros.
Less than one month after Netflix walked away from its takeover bid for the storied studio major, the co-CEO is trying to shift the focus from the streamer’s failed Hollywood merger to its future plans for Europe.
In a wide-ranging interview with Politico in Brussels, published on Tuesday, the Netflix Co-CEO was keen to discuss new efforts by the EU to regulate the media industry, but appeared eager to put the story of Netflix’s unsuccessful WBD bid to bed.
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In the interview, Sarandos insisted there was “no political interference” from the Trump administration in the WBD negotiations, which saw Warner Bros accepting the $111 billion bid by David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance over Netflix’s lower offer. The political dynamics “complicated the narrative [around the deal], not the actual outcomes,” Sarandos said. “I think for us
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