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It’s Skydance: David Ellison Brands Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. With His Studio’s Title
Paramount and Warner Bros. will exist as sub-brands in the larger corporate brand.
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Slams Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: “Shameful Monument to Corruption”
His comments came after 12 states, including New York, and the WGA agreed to settle their antitrust lawsuits against Paramount Skydance over its bid for Warner Bros.
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John Oliver Takes Jab at “Soon-to-Be Business Daddy” David Ellison on ‘Last Week Tonight’
During a segment on UnitedHealthCare's history of denying claims, Oliver said: "Having access to wealthy parents just cannot be the system to get badly needed healthcare, even if it is apparently the system that lets you be in charge of HBO."
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Rob Bonta on Paramount’s Threat to Leave California: “They Own It. It Lies at Their Feet”
The California AG spoke on a panel at The Atlantic Festival Thursday, where he addressed the current status of the Paramount antitrust suit.
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Leaked Report Details Fallout if Paramount Follows Through on California Exit Threat
Nearly 58,000 jobs and $21 billion in annual losses are on the line as the Oct. 1 merger deadline approaches.
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George Clooney Tackles WBD Merger, Ruffalo Comments and AI: “I Would Like to Avoid Being in a Tampon Commercial 20 Years After I‘m Dead”
The Oscar winner touched down on the Lido Wednesday for a hard-hitting press conference ahead of receiving a Golden Lion career achievement honor during the Venice Film Festival's opening ceremony.
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Paramount Says It Secured All Global Clearances to Close Warner Bros. Deal … Except for That Pesky Lawsuit
David Ellison says that they are offering "commitments and concessions" to try and get the deal over the line.
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How Many of This Century’s Top 100 Films Have a “Nepo Baby Creative”? Your Guess Will Be Too Low
Kicking off Locarno Pro 2026, film industry data analyst Stephen Follows raised eyebrows with data points and hard truths in a presentation entitled “Fear, Lies, and the Illusion of Control.”
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David Zaslav’s Summer Camp Dreams Fizzle Out
A private equity fund swooped in to outbid the Warner Bros. Discovery mogul for Mohawk Day Camp in Westchester County, New York.
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David Ellison Breaks Silence on Antitrust Lawsuit: It’s Not About Market Share, It’s About CNN
"While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more," Ellison writes in a new op-ed.
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming, Benedict Wong Pen Op-Ed Urging U.K. to Block “Dangerous” Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
“Actors are often told to stay out of legal arguments … But we have spent our lives on enough U.K. sets, worked alongside enough U.K. crews […] to know that this is not someone else’s argument. It is ours.”
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CNN Staff Braces for Possible Bari Weiss Era as Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Nears
Mark Thompson, CNN's editor-in-chief, reportedly told Paramount officials he would not share oversight of CNN with another executive, according to The New York Times.
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