Paramount Warns CA AG Bonta & WGA Of WBD Merger Fallout & “Financial Consequences If Their Challenge Ultimately Fails”
2 sources·Updated September 8, 2026
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- Deadline Hollywood·4h agoParamount Warns CA AG Bonta & WGA Of WBD Merger Fallout & “Financial Consequences If Their Challenge Ultimately Fails”
Just weeks before Paramount Skydance starts being on the hook for the vaunted $7-million-a-day ticking fee to Warner Bros Discovery shareholders, the David Ellison-run company today pushed hard once again for the Writers Guild of America, California and 11 other states to pony…
Read at Deadline Hollywood → - Variety·4h agoParamount Repeats Demand That States and WGA Post $1.88 Billion Bond Over Warner Bros. Merger Delay, After AGs Argue Company Is Trying to ‘Offload Its Responsibility’ for Ticking Fees
Paramount Skydance on Tuesday reiterated its demand in a court filing that 12 states and the WGA — whose antitrust lawsuits seek to block its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — post $1.88 billion in bond as security to cover for the losses Paramount would incur if the deal…
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