The studio is alleging that the state attorneys general challenge to the merger with Warner Bros. is all about CNN, and that they’ll leave Hollywood if they don’t get their way.
David Ellison
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Why Paramount Should Be Worried
A look inside the judge’s ruling for a brief pause in Paramount’s proposed deal with Warner Bros. reveals that the merger is in a shaky position.
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When the Anti-Sharia Law Demagogues Fall Silent
Today on TAP: The Republicans who stoke anti-Muslim bigotry have nothing to say about Sharia law nations buying CNN and Warner Bros.
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Investors Using Shareholder Power to Challenge Corrupt Paramount Deal
Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders are using a rule under Delaware law to demand records.
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Objective News Coverage? Not on the Ellisons’ Watch!
With their mega-purchase up for administration approval, they compelled CBS News to honor Trump last week.
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The Warner Bros. Sale to the Ellisons Illustrates Perfectly Why Shareholder Capitalism Is a Disaster
99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.
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The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike.
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Organized Money: The Paramount Takeover
The Ellisons moved closer to capturing Warner Bros., and control of a massive news, sports, and entertainment content stream.
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Paramount-Warner Would Create a Hollywood Jobs Apocalypse
The deal comes complete with so much debt that it would almost certainly lead to mass job loss. That could prove to be an argument against the deal in court, too.
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States Can Block the Paramount-Warner Deal
But thanks to some clever maneuvering, they are already running out of time.