Top three movie theater chains urge California to settle Paramount lawsuit in win for David Ellison

Cinemark on Tuesday became the latest major theater operator to toss its hat in the ring, after AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas previously backed the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bonta took aim at the Paramount mogul: “He cannot flee accountability."

America’s three largest movie theater companies have lined up behind David Ellison’s $111 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has hired several former Googlers. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Paramount David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is bringing on two more former Google executives. Nick Lee and Suzanne Pellican are joining as EVPs, product chief Dane Glasgow said in a memo. Read Glasgow's full note to Pa

David Ellison, we have been told, loves Hollywood. He loves movies. In trying to rally industry support behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, he has claimed the combined studios will release an unprecedented 30-plus films a year. Waving the banner for the entertainment industry in his home state, Ellison also h

As Paramount continues to rattle state AGs in its antitrust suit against the Melrose lot’s yearned merger with Warner Bros Discovery, Cinemark has come out in support of the $111 billion deal. At the same time today, exhibition trade org, Cinema United, sent a note to Paramount CEO David Ellison and California AG Rob B

The settlement will end a case filed by a behind-the-scenes hitmaker who alleged he wrote a Rihanna track that appeared in the movie but was never paid for it.