Can Paramount Skydance Save Hollywood From Itself?

The Block the Merger campaign shows where the real power lies in Hollywood and why the empire is collapsing.

Of all the great cinematic narrative arcs, there’s something special about the comeback. Think “Rocky,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Natural.” A much-maligned or doubted hero rises and triumphs against all the odds. Goosebumps, every time. The comeback saga rings ever so true for those in the movie theater industry

Ari Emanuel, executive chairman of William Morris Endeavor (WME), has endorsed the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.

It’s a thorn in the side of David Ellison’s paused dream.

I. When I was a Federal Trade Commissioner, I learned that, as exciting as I thought my job was, most people don’t think about corporate consolidation. The word “merger” does not get the heart thumping. “Media merger” sounds like you’re stapling a document.  So let me try something different: If you watch CNN, if you w

Republicans are pressing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to block California from implementing a new tax on private health insurers, warning it will worsen the state’s affordability crisis.  At issue is the recently restructured Managed Care Organization tax, which Democratic leaders and Gov.

Everyone in Hollywood has weighed in on Paramount’s planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. But not Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong wrote an op-ed Monday citing the dangers to industry competition, jobs and a concentration of power if Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merge. “We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the breadth and depth of the work we produce:

An op-ed in the Guardian by actors Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong opposes the takeover of Warner Bros by Paramount.

The national board of Hollywood’s largest union has adopted a resolution to oppose the mega-transaction unless “enforceable safeguards” are put in place.

In a "Guardian" op-ed, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming, and Benedict Wong lay out the dangers of the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.

Benedict Cumberbatch has co-authored an op-ed with Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong in which the actors argue that Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery should be blocked in the UK. In The Guardian article, headlined ‘A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to s