David Ellison‘s endgame is in sight. Following a dramatic weekend of negotiations with a collection of state attorneys general and the WGA, the mogul’s path to combining Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is now clear. In a Monday address to staff, Ellison said his team’s goal is to “close in approximately two weeks. That
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has cleared the last major hurdle to closing its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount has settled the lawsuit brought by 12 states, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday. A key part of the settlement: Bonta said Paramount agreed to release 30 movies in theaters each of
“Days of Thunder” star Randy Quaid sounded off on Anne Hathaway after it was revealed that she has joined Tom Cruise in the racing drama’s upcoming sequel. “We need Nicole [Kidman] back,” Quaid wrote on X Saturday. “Don’t be a pussy, [Tom Cruise]. You need the original girl. It’s not personal; it’s filmmaking. Anne isn’t
Jane Fonda has released a statement in support of Mark Ruffalo after Paramount slammed the four-time Oscar nominee as “antisemitic” for a recent post denouncing Larry Ellison’s ties to Israel and David Ellison’s planned merger with Warner Bros. “Especially as a Jewish American, I find it deeply troubling to see false accusations of antisemitism used
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird wrote in an op-ed for The Daily Wire that she is suing California for leading the charge in the lawsuit against the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger. “California is once again trying to be the country’s regulator. And once again California is defying common sense to raise costs around the country,” Brenna
Haim Saban, Teddy Schwarzman and Lawrence Bender are among a group of industry figures who have put their names to a statement condemning “antisemitic theories” in Mark Ruffalo’s Paramount discourse. “Singling out Jewish executives and describing them in terms lifted from centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theories, while invoking Israel as the frame for that attack, is
