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Depending on which side you ask, Hollywood is booming, or it’s in a state of crisis.

If you ask Paramount, it’ll say that tech and entertainment giants like Netflix, Amazon and Google have cornered the industry such that the only way to truly compete is through consolidation. By its thinking, a marriage of two legacy studios is not only the strongest card left to play but the only one — a move that will boost competition to the benefit of consumers and workers.

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The Writers Guild of America sued on Tuesday to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, saying the deal would jeopardize writers’ livelihoods and threaten the health of U.S. entertainment.

The case is another blow to Paramount’s bid to become a bigger rival to Netflix and Disney, a day after California and 11 other states sued to block the deal. Paramount, which argued the combination would increase opportunities for writers, must now deal with a double dose of lega

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From Friday being a big day in court to the WGA filing a lawsuit, and more, here’s the latest on the Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery deal.

We’ve got some updates to pass along regarding California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the 12 states (California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington) that filed an antitrust lawsuit to block t

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Paramount Skydance Corp. (NASDAQ:PSKY), a Hollywood film, television and streaming company, is facing a major legal challenge to its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (NASDAQ:WBD), a media company with film studios, cable channels and the HBO Max streaming service. California and 11 other states filed an antitrust lawsuit in federal court on Monday seeking to block the transaction, arguing that the combination could lead t

California and 11 states have sued to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the deal would create a media behemoth with the power to raise prices in film and television.

The lawsuit filed in Oakland federal court threatens to derail Paramount CEO David Ellison’s bid to transform his company into a major rival of Netflix and Disney.

States including New York, Arizona, and Minnesota argued the deal would harm theaters and television distributors, raising

California, Other State AGs Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Megadeal

A coalition of a dozen states alleged the Hollywood merger would boost prices for consumers and lower quality for film and television.

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CEO of Jack Daniel’s Maker Brown-Forman to Retire

Lawson Whiting, who has led the spirits giant since 2019, will remain in the role until a successor is appointed.

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Appeals Court Revives Lawsuits Alleging Tylenol Causes Autism and ADHD

The decision puts mass litigation against the

From Sacramento to Albany and several state capitols in between, regional attorneys general are steeled to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery in an antitrust lawsuit that could hit the courts Monday.

Coming as barbed threats circulate that the David Ellison-owned PSKY could exit the Golden State in retaliation, the long anticipated AGs action, spearheaded by California’s Rob Bonta, will focus on the dire result they predict a united ParaBros would have on b

Oregon has withdrawn its push to delay Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery merger

Oregon’s attorney general has withdrawn a motion seeking to delay the closing of Paramount’s roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a filing submitted Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. The move clears one obstacle from a deal that could close as soon as July 22, though the transaction still faces scrutiny from other states and international regulators.

Attorney General Dan

Dubai luxury, Netflix glory, and one of India’s largest betting scandals — with billions funneled into global markets. The man Netflix turned into a star is the same man accused of running Mahadev — India’s most notorious betting empire.

Who is REALLY the Mahadev of Mahadev App?

He arrived on Netflix wearing gold chains and a Rs. 3 billion smile. But somewhere in a New Delhi police database, his name was on a list — a list of people not allowed to leave India. Welcome to the story of Satish

This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.

According to a new report from Puck, Netflix is allegedly one of several parties in early talks to purchase the movie review social media app Letterboxd. Other interested parties reportedly include Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Skydance, Reddit co-founder and former executive chairman Alexis Ohanian, and TPG.

The company insists it has presented over 822,000 documents related to the state’s merger review, in addition to 1.2 million documents provided by WBD

Paramount filed a response to Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield this week, insisting the state’s motion to attempt to block the $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery is not based upon matters of antitrust law.

In a Wednesday filing, Paramount Skydance claimed the Ex Parte Motion for Order to Show Cause and Application for Statutory

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star whose 1983 chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” enchanted succeeding generations with its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75.

Tyler died unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery. She had

The countdown to the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards has begun following the official nominations announcement.

The first two honorees were announced on the Today show before Liza Colón-Zayas and Jeff Hiller unveiled the complete list of nominees live from the Wolf Theatre at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 8.

“This year’s submissions reflect the undiminished creative range and vitality of our medium, celebrating both emerging talent and beloved creativ

July 7 (Reuters) – The Oregon attorney general will ask a court to pause Paramount’s $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros for 60 days, saying on Tuesday the company withheld records on its lobbying efforts.

While Paramount has told the state it will not close the deal before July 16, Attorney General Dan Rayfield said he will ask a court in Multnomah County to order the company to hand over records and delay the deal so the state can review them.

“We’re not going to let Paramount Skydance p

Watch: Mariska Hargitay Channels Mom Jayne Mansfield at Emmys 2025

The case is closed on who’s hosting the 2026 Emmy Awards.

After all, the Television Academy announced that Mariska Hargitay will host the ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles Sept. 14, making her the first woman to take on the honor since Jane Lynch in 2011.

“NBC continues its 100th birthday celebrations this fall,” the July 7 press release shared, “with Emmy Award-winning actor, director, producer and television ico

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariska Hargitay is set to host the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, airing on NBC on Sept. 14.

NBCUniversal announced Hargitay as host on Tuesday, the day before nominations are announced. The show will also stream on Peacock and will be held, fittingly, at the Peacock Theater, the longtime Emmys home that will also soon be home to the Oscars.

Hargitay, 62, has long been one of NBC’s signature personalities as the star since 1999 of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” one of t

July 6 (UPI) — Britain’s ITV public broadcast television network and Sky said Monday they had reached a deal for Comcast-owned Sky to take over ITV’s media and entertainment businesses for as much as $2.1 billion, pending the approval of regulators.

The merger, following eight months of negotiations, will combine the strengths of both groups in a single competitor with the capacity to take on the “global streaming giants” and YouTube in the British market, said the companies.

The deal include

The transaction includes ITV’s UK broadcast channels, ITVX streaming platform, and UTV but excludes ITV Studios and STV, which remain separate companies.

Sky has agreed to buy ITV’s Media & Entertainment business in a deal worth up to 1.6 billion pounds ($2.1 billion), bringing together two of the UK’s biggest television companies.

The deal, announced by Sky and parent company Comcast on July 6, would combine ITV’s free-to-air television channels, advertising-supported streaming platform ITVX,

Adam Sandler had a central role at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, serving as the officiant for the couple’s ceremony Friday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The detail stood out in the wedding announcement, adding an unexpected entertainment connection to one of the most publicized celebrity ceremonies of the year. Sandler, long known for his work in film and comedy, guided the couple through the formal part of the event as they exchanged vows in front of family, frien

Merger and acquisition activity in the media business was already in high gear when Comcast announced this week that it was splitting the company in two, separating its broadband business from NBCUniversal.

Comcast stock went up on the news and the big question on investors’ minds: who will acquire NBCU? Wall Street has already started to place bets on what chunks NBCU or Comcast might sell off and which buyers will surface. Netflix, anyone?

I talked with Michael LaSalle of Shamrock Capital ab

“Supergirl” may have stumbled, but that isn’t stopping James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe from moving forward with a new TV series seemingly revealed today.

As we know, DC Studios has “Clayface,” “Man of Tomorrow,” “Dynamic Duo,” “Deathstroke and Bane,” and the non-DCU “The Batman: Part II” all coming to cinemas in the next few years

On the TV front, there’s the TV series centering on Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo) and Gorilla Grodd that’s very much in the works, along with a second seaso