Cinema United Chief Michael O’Leary Blasts Paramount Warner Bros. Deal, Endorses Litigation to Delay Merger

The head of Cinema United is reiterating the lobbying organization’s opposition to Paramount Skydance’s proposed merger with Warner Bros., as well as the group’s support of litigation filed by state Attorneys General that has put the deal on hold. In a letter to theater owners on Wednesday, Michael O’Leary, who serves

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:

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.