What a year the past week has been in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery. In just seven days, Hollywood has gone from thinking that Paramount was the inevitable winner of the David Zaslav–led media empire to the shock news that Netflix had signed a purchase agreement for the WB studio and streaming assets — only to wake up Monday to witness Paramount and its CEO David Ellison mounting a hostile takeover attempt for the company. Even the Animaniacs would have trouble squeezing all these developments into a single song.

Given how much of a rollercoaster ride this story has already been, it would be foolish to try to predict what will happen next, let alone how this whole thing ends: Maybe Comcast somehow re-emerges with a new bid, or some other unexpected player pops up. Except for Zasl

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