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The company’s strategy appears more aligned with consolidating their intellectual property and selling it as a single, attractive package to a major buyer—probably Paramount, Apple, or another tech giant—rather than breaking assets into smaller pieces. The preferred approach, as outlined by Zazlov, seems to be a complete divestment of the non-core assets, with the studio’s IPs remaining intact in a new corporate structure.
The Long Game: Asset Sales and Corporate Restructuring
The situation resembles a high-stakes game of chess. Ellison’s preliminary bids and Warner Brothers' stock manipulations serve as a prelude to a potential sale of key assets. If the studio is split up, it could mean: