Paramount's all-cash tender offer sets up a potentially monthslong battle between it and Netflix to influence WBD shareholders about which bid is best.
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Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck.