The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has urged the Justice Department to block Paramount Skydance's $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery unless Paramount agrees to "substantial ...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters submitted a report to the U.S. Department of Justice urging it to block the proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery.
The Paramount-WBD mega-merger won't happen for at least six months, as it still needs approval from regulators in the US and ...
After months of rumors, Paramount announced it will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a cash deal worth $110 billion. The agreement marks one of the largest med ...
More than 100 productions fall under the two companies’ various studios. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A big media merger may cause a major reset of ...
After a long, tumultuous fight for Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant has finally bested rival bidder Netflix but now faces a new challenge: Winning over regulators. The competition concerns ...
Paramount Skydance has set an ambitious target of closing the Warner Bros. Discovery transaction by the fall as David Ellison’s media conglomerate trumpeted its hard-fought agreement to acquire its ...
Opinion

Everybody Loses

Paramount winning control of Warner Bros. is the worst-case scenario for Hollywood — and America.
Whoever wins, we lose. So read the tagline to 2004’s AVP: Alien Vs. Predator, a long-in-the-works crossover event between two of the universe’s most ruthless killers. Released by 20th Century Fox ...
Lukas I. Alpert writes about the media and entertainment industries for MarketWatch. He previously worked for the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post and the Associated Press. In ...
Paramount said Friday the US antitrust waiting period for its $78 billion all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery expired on Thursday, marking a milestone on the road to a potential deal to acquire ...
Trolls was an unexpected success. The movie was initially believed by many to simply be a shallow, run-of-the-mill toy-to-movie cash-in that wouldn’t bring much of anything to the table but a ...