{"id":43032,"date":"2016-03-31T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=43032"},"modified":"2016-03-31T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:13:01","slug":"paramount-pictures-looking-for-passive-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/03\/paramount-pictures-looking-for-passive-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures Looking For Passive Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Viacom, Inc., Paramount Pictures<\/em>&#8216; parent company, is looking for investors willing to pony up cash without wanting to run things.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skydance Media <\/em>and<em> 21st Century Fox<\/em> are amongst the three dozen parties interested in the 20-40% minority stake for sale, but both would like to actually buy the studio outright as opposed to just being a cash register.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other companies interested are based in China, such as <em>Alibaba <\/em>and<em> Dalian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The <em>Paramount<\/em> sale] is the minimum he [<em>Viacom<\/em> CEO<strong> Philippe Dauman<\/strong>] can do to juice the stock without giving up control or anything that really changes the collection of assets,&#8221; said <strong>Eric Jackson<\/strong>, managing director at <em>SpringOwl Asset Management<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viacom, Inc., Paramount Pictures&#8216; parent company, is looking for investors willing to pony up cash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700],"tags":[4108,3071],"class_list":["post-43032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-viacom"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ParamountPictures033116.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43034,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43032\/revisions\/43034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}