California Attorney General Rob Bonta is fighting Paramount Skydance’s claims that his multistate antitrust lawsuit against the entertainment company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery is about politics.
David Ellison is eager to reach a swift resolution in the antitrust case filed by 12 states seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. And he’s prepared start moving Paramount out of California as soon as October unless the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settlement…
Paramount’s board has approved a plan to move the Hollywood studio out of California if the state’s attorney general Rob Bonta doesn't agree to settlement talks in his bitter antitrust case by Oct. 1, according to reports.
Paramount CEO David Ellison told a group of the company’s top executives that he will start the process of exiting California on Oct. 1 if State Attorney General Rob Bonta will not negotiate to settle an antitrust suit around the merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
If Democrat-run California does not stop blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Paramount CEO David Ellison will begin moving Paramount to a different state as early as October 1.
Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California who is leading a 12-state coalition’s lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, responded to David Ellison’s threat to pull Paramount out of the state unless Bonta agrees to settlement talks.
(FOX40.COM) — Attorney General Rob Bonta called David Ellison's threat to move Paramount out of California "blackmail" Tuesday amid his ongoing antitrust suit seeking to block the company's merger with Warner Bros.
A lawsuit led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta still stands in the way of Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
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 Skydance CEO David Ellison has told his top executives he is prepared to move the studio out of California starting Oct. 1 unless California Attorney General Rob Bonta agrees to negotiate a settlement in the state's antitrust lawsuit against Paramount's $110B merger with Warner Bros.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has publicly blasted reports that Paramount is threatening to move its studio operation out of California if state officials do not drop their legal challenge to the proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
The state has seen production spend stabilize in recent months, though Paramount could undermine that recovery. Attorney general Rob Bonta called the threat "another attempt to blackmail the state."
Paramount's chief legal officer is telegraphing a willingness by the company's chief executive to leave California as the media company faces growing antitrust scrutiny from the state government there. “His intent is to be committed to California,” Makan Delrahim, Paramount's top legal official, sai…
Ellison is also reportedly planning to move Paramount’s Hollywood studio out of California if Bonta doesn’t agree to settlement talks in his antitrust case.
Paramount is threatening to leave California if it cannot reach a deal with Attorney General Rob Bonta to allow it to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Puck reported the threat on Tuesday, following a similar report in Semafor last month, and adding that Paramount CEO David Ellison believes the move w…
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