Why Antitrust Regulators Should Reject WBD-Paramount Merger: Column

Why Antitrust Regulators Should Reject WBD-Paramount Merger: Column

Hollywood film financier Joseph Singer believes the sale of Warner Bros Discovery to Paramount will be disastrous for the film and TV business.

What the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Means for Streaming

Paramount’s win in a high-stakes bidding war for Warner Bros. gives the combined company a fighting chance in an increasingly consolidated streaming industry, says media analyst Michael Nathanson ’90 M.P.P.M. But it faces heavy debt and a shrinking cable business — as well as the familiar pitfalls that have doomed previous media mergers.

The Paramount-Warner Deal Isn’t Inevitable. It’s Starting to Unravel

GROUP EFFORT Clockwise from top left: California Attorney General Rob Bonta, The Pitt star Noah Wyle, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, journalist Jim Acosta. (The Ankler illustration; image credits below)ShareSubscribe nowFinally, there are people paying attention.Late last week, Senator Adam Schiff held a hearing in Burbank called “Lights, Camera, Competition: Promoting American Film Production,” where Schiff and his Congressional collea…