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Lisa Kudrow Urges Warner Bros. Buyer to Keep Burbank Lot Intact

Her public plea puts preservation at the forefront of a high‑value fight for control of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Overview

  • In Architectural Digest’s March issue, Kudrow asks that the studio be “preserved as is” and adds, “please don’t remove Jack Warner’s roses.”
  • She recalls Friends moving to Stage 24 for a larger audience and notes she recently returned to film a new season of The Comeback on the same stage.
  • Netflix has an offer of roughly $82–83 billion to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery and has amended it to an all‑cash bid, with the company said to be highly confident about closing.
  • Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, has a hostile proposal near $108–108.7 billion, has courted regulators abroad, missed a U.S. antitrust hearing, and filed a lawsuit over Warner’s selection process.
  • The Burbank lot, built in 1928, has hosted Casablanca, The Matrix, Inception and Blade Runner, and Stage 24 was later nicknamed “The Friends Stage.”