Paramount Skydance emerged victorious on Monday from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery after settling with a California-led group of US states and a Hollywood writers union, paving the way for one of the larg
The settlement marks a major win for Paramount CEO David Ellison, who battled the states for months to finalize a deal that would dramatically concentrate power across Hollywood's film, TV, streaming and news businesses.
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People- David Ellison2
- Rob Bonta2
- Donald Trump.The
- Letitia James
- Gavin Newsom
- William Tong
- Trump
Organisations- CNN2
- Writers Guild of America
- Paramount-Warner Bros
- Warner Bros Discovery
- Wall Street Journal
- Paramount Skydance
- Warner Bros
- Department
Places- California2
- United States
- Golden State
- Connecticut
- Los Angeles
- Hollywood
- York
Keywords- settlement
- attorneys
- lawsuits
- settling
- takeover
- continu
- merger
- block
- nears
- union
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