WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a hit after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026, while he's also set to receive millions of new stock options.

Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders registered complaints that the salary they’d already paid CEO David Zaslav was too damn high. To fix this for the future, Deadline reports that the studio head will have his pay “substantially” reduced when the company splits into two entities,

The new pay package goes into effect only if the split happens by the end of 2026, but Zaslav already received options for nearly 21 million shares last week. The underlying stock