Rob Bonta's Paramount Crusade Could Make California's Hollywood Exodus Even Worse

California's attorney general is fighting a merger that 65 countries and the DOJ already cleared. Now, the state may lose thousands of jobs.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he’d consider structural remedies to resolve a lawsuit over the Paramount-WBD merger but dismissed “behavioral” remedies that are hard to enforce, like David Ellison’s pledge that the combined company will release 30 movies a year. “There’s ways where the issue could be resolv

California Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Paramount Skydance of trying to “blackmail” his office on Tuesday by threatening to leave the state unless he agrees to hold settlement talks in the antitrust case against the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly plans to take

California voter ID backers lost a court fight Thursday to block Attorney General Rob Bonta’s controversial rewrite of their initiative’s ballot language, fueling fresh accusations that state officials are trying to “rig” the vote.