Bobby Kotick: Activision Blizzard Wanted to Buy Time Warner - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2023 / 2,789 Views
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick in an interview with Variety revealed the company was looking to acquire Time Warner a few years ago.
This would have only happened if the AT&T deal to acquire Time Warner had fallen apart and the gaming giant was ready to do so as it raised capital needed.
"We raised all the capital and were ready to go in the event that AT&T couldn’t get the deal done," said Kotick.
The plan would be for Activision Blizzard to develop games based on the IP owned by Time Warner and for Time Warner to develop movies and TV shows based on Activision Blizzard's IP.
Kotick added, "We’d take their IP and turn it into games. They’d take our IP and turn it into film and television, and we’d have an extraordinary company."
Microsoft is currently attempting to acquire Activision Blizzard for $67.8 billion. The deal has been approved in South Korea, China, the European Union, Ukraine, South Africa, Japan, Chile, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia. However, the deal is facing a block in the UK, which the two companies are appealing, and a lawsuit in the US.
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Thank God they didn't do it.
Sony can do both of what they wanted to do already. Make movies and tv shows from any of their own IP as well as make games for them. I guess that makes Sony a pretty extraordinary company.
Soon they will have 3 billion to spend on a studio and ruin it.
That unfortunately is true.
I don't think it's likely to be true if that $3 billion is from Microsoft's purchase of the ABK deal falling through. I think it's still going through.
There was a time specified for the deal, don't they get the money even if the deal closes? Also they would need to post pone the due date to allow the deal to still go.
There is the option of negotiating to extend the deal. They won't do it any sooner than they have to, in the interests of keeping the pressure up on regulators. But I predict they will negotiate to lengthen the terms of the deal if they need to. ABK management would rather this deal go through than get the $3 billion payday. The only get the $3 billion if the deal falls through. Microsoft won't want to both pay out the $3 billion and also keep trying to buy ABK.
You really think the Microsoft acquisition isn't going through? Why? Microsoft and Activision are still committed to completing it. I think it'll go through in the end.
They wanted to make a Friends RPG and Candy Crush movies then ?
Activision Blizzard King has a lot of properties with deep lore. StarCraft, WarCraft, Star Control, and many more.
My goodness, I'd jizz in my pants over a Star Control TV show or film!
