The lawsuit, filed by 12 states, makes the case that a merged studio will have more leverage to dictate terms to distributors, leading to higher prices for everyone.
Warner Bros. Discovery
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Organized Money: Why Farmers and Filmmakers Both Face Monopoly
Monopoly power has penetrated nearly every sector of commerce.
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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: California Attorney General Rob Bonta Is Not Done With Ticketmaster
The system is not completely broken, and it shows when states pick up the shattered pieces of our federal system.
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States Substitute for Corrupt Feds on Antitrust
On Live Nation, Paramount–Warner Bros., and more, state attorneys general are becoming the chief antitrust enforcer. Do they have the capacity to keep going?
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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.