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re: Ellison will move Paramount out of CA on 10/01 if the states don't settle
Posted on 8/13/26 at 11:54 am to Philzilla2k
Posted on 8/13/26 at 11:54 am to Philzilla2k
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Studios don’t have thousands and thousands of employees anymore. Paramount has fewer than 18,000 employees worldwide.
So studios don't have thousands of employees, they just have thousands of employees? Got it.
Posted on 8/14/26 at 5:39 pm to Socrates Johnson
Posted on 8/14/26 at 5:50 pm to Proximo
Good to see Mexico isn't some crazy mentally ill liberals with an agenda.
Posted on 8/14/26 at 6:12 pm to Socrates Johnson
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So studios don't have thousands of employees, they just have thousands of employees? Got it.
No stupid arse, they don’t have thousands of employees in California to move to some red state. 18,000 is world wide.
Read and comprehend better.
Posted on 8/14/26 at 6:14 pm to Philzilla2k
I think it’s about more than just studio employees, there are a lot of independent contractors that work on productions right?
Or maybe I should say there are LLCs set up under the production and they’re employees of those rather than Paramount itself
Did some googling and the second is how it’s done, so it doesn’t really matter how many Paramount employees there are. It’ll be a big hit to their economy if they leave
Or maybe I should say there are LLCs set up under the production and they’re employees of those rather than Paramount itself
Did some googling and the second is how it’s done, so it doesn’t really matter how many Paramount employees there are. It’ll be a big hit to their economy if they leave
This post was edited on 8/14/26 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 8/18/26 at 12:20 am to Proximo
It's amazing there is anyone who believes there is any legal basis to block this merger. The ONLY HOPE the states have to get anything out of this is to settle. If they don't, they're simply wasting state funds.
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Just so you know how dumb Bob Bonta's case is:
Market cap of the big players in Hollywood:
Apple - $4.45 TRILLION
Amazon - $2.93 TRILLION
Netflix - $311B
Disney - $178B
Sony - $138B
Comcast/Universal - $90B
Paramount & WB combined - $80B
Combined, Paramount/WB would be 1/4 the size of Netflix, and yet nobody said a WORD when Netflix was the original buyer for WB. Warner Bros is 7th among the major studios...after the merger, they'd still be 7th. This is what these clowns are fighting over. This is the dumbest case I've ever seen.
Thought a little basic math might be helpful for all the economically illiterate clowns weighing in on the merger lawsuit.
This post was edited on 8/18/26 at 12:22 am
Posted on 8/18/26 at 1:05 am to imjustafatkid
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It's amazing there is anyone who believes there is any legal basis to block this merger.
I don't really.
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Market cap of the big players in Hollywood:
Apple - $4.45 TRILLION
Amazon - $2.93 TRILLION
But posting retarded tweets with irrelevant numbers isn't going to convince anyone who might disagree with you.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 7:14 am to Jay Are
The numbers aren’t irrelevant, paramount/wbd don’t even come close to a Disney in terms of market cap
Why is it that a company 1/2 the size (post merger) of Disney an issue when they want to merge with a small company, but it wasn’t when Disney did it with fox?
Edit** Paramount is actually the smallest by market cap at 11.5 billion. 11.5 / 178 =0.065% the size of Disney
Why is it that a company 1/2 the size (post merger) of Disney an issue when they want to merge with a small company, but it wasn’t when Disney did it with fox?
Edit** Paramount is actually the smallest by market cap at 11.5 billion. 11.5 / 178 =0.065% the size of Disney
This post was edited on 8/18/26 at 7:19 am
Posted on 8/18/26 at 8:20 am to Jay Are
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But posting retarded tweets with irrelevant numbers isn't going to convince anyone who might disagree with you.
My goodness. What an absolutely braindead take.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 2:33 pm to Proximo
Posted on 8/18/26 at 2:39 pm to Proximo
I'm expecting this to get settled by October or November, at the latest
Posted on 8/18/26 at 2:55 pm to RLDSC FAN
It really needs to but the CA AG keeps tweeting like he isn’t backing down.
I’m not sure how he can back down at this point and save face when they’ve gone all in on stopping it
I’m not sure how he can back down at this point and save face when they’ve gone all in on stopping it
This post was edited on 8/18/26 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 8/20/26 at 8:51 am to RLDSC FAN
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I'm expecting this to get settled by October or November, at the latest
We'll see. Paramount has no legal reason to settle. It's obvious the states will have no shot at blocking this merger through the courts. Maybe they'll get some lunatic activist state judge to side with them, but they will not ultimately be successful at blocking this. If it ever made it to court, their legal briefings would have to be filled with lies and nonsense just like the legal briefings filed in the Microsost Activision merger case.
In my view, the states bringing these cases are running a very clear risk of opening themselves up to lawsuits for their frivolous actions. Paramount can pay good lawyers, and it wouldn't be surprising for them to conclude Paramount may succeed in a lawsuit if the states don't drop their attempts to block this purchase. They need to simply drop this outright, and soon.
If not even the UK saw reason to block this merger, that means there are no threads to pull. The UK CMA is extremely anti-merger (see: Microsoft purchase of Activision), and even they portrayed the state AG's attempt to block this as nonsensical:
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From UK's CMA on approving Paramount - Warner:
"Key conclusions reached by the UK CMA directly refute the assumptions that underpin the US state AGs’ complaint seeking to block the transaction, despite federal approval:
When considering theatrical film distribution, the CMA concluded that the merged entity "would continue to face competition from" Universal, Disney and Sony and "a range of other smaller studios."
At several points, the CMA review considered how other forms of content distribution directly compete with SVOD.
During its assessment of linear children’s TV channels, the CMA highlighted the competitive constraint from free-to-air channels and children’s content available via SVOD.
In relation to the supply of SVOD services, it highlighted the constraint imposed by broadcast video-on-demand services and other SVOD suppliers."
ETA: This legitimate lawsuit possibility for damages chance, coupled with Ellison's threat to move the company out of California, makes this a no-win situation for these states.
This post was edited on 8/20/26 at 8:55 am
Posted on 8/20/26 at 6:35 pm to imjustafatkid
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If tweet fails to load, click here. saw another report that the expected new governor talked to him recently as well. Sounds like CA politicians are starting to tell bonta to knock this off
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:39 pm to Proximo
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:38 pm to RLDSC FAN
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Actually massive news since he’s been peacocking and saying he doesn’t even want to negotiate
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 8/23/26 at 10:15 pm to Proximo
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If tweet fails to load, click here. "this isn't about CNN"
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This post was edited on 8/23/26 at 10:16 pm
Posted on 8/24/26 at 6:47 am to Proximo
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In a statement shared with Deadline and the New York Times early on Monday, Bonta said Paramount leaked “alleged substance of settlement discussions.” The California AG accused the media conglomerate of misrepresented their discussions in these leaks and also “demonstrating a lack of good faith.”
Too many updates.. frick bonta. Think he’s butthurt that they revealed the real reason for their suit is CNN
This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 6:57 am
Posted on 8/25/26 at 10:08 am to Proximo
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@paramount execs say -- and plan to more vociferously argue if they have to -- that @AGRobBonta 's opposition to the merger is motivated by the campaign contributions he's received from various players in Big Tech, including @netflix and @OpenAI, which could be the overlord of media and entertainment if this deal isn't successful. That's if they have to; the game plan now is to let Bonta take minor wins but basically craft a settlement that keeps the structure of the deal, I am told.
Posted on 8/25/26 at 10:31 am to imjustafatkid
This is a good read
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