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Paramount settles with California, other states over Warner Bros merger: Report
- On Monday, Paramount Skydance settled antitrust lawsuits with 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America, clearing the path for its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to close in approximately two weeks.
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta and other state officials sued in July to block the merger, alleging the deal would "extinguish competition" and reduce consumer choice in film and television markets.
- Under the agreement, Paramount must invest at least $300 million annually in U.S. film production, prohibit writer layoffs at CBS News for five years, and establish an editorial independence board for news operations.
- Paramount will pay $17.5 million to the WGA health fund and avoid a so-called "ticking fee" of roughly $7 million per day that would have accumulated after September 30.
- Activist coalitions pledged to continue fighting media consolidation, while Bonta maintained the agreement "is not a vote of support for this merger" and does not address deeper industry harms.
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For Hollywood, the biggest question after a mega-merger is often what happens once the deal closes: fewer movies, fewer jobs and fewer choices can become easy tradeoffs when cost-cutting takes over. A new settlement aims to put some guardrails around those outcomes. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and 11 other state attorneys general have reached […]
Paramount reached a settlement agreement with California and 11 other states that tried to block a deal to buy Warner Bros.
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The states' antitrust proceedings ended with a settlement.
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