>No one wants Paramount to get control of Warner Bros., so California and some other statres are doing something about it. >The ongoing Paramount/Warner Bros. merger may soon hit a snag due to an incoming lawsuit.>Per Reuters on Friday, California, New York, and other unnamed states have come together to prevent the merger. The suit is said to be filed “in the coming weeks,” so we currently don’t know what specific complaints will be made. However, Hollywood actors, theater owners, and US senators have previously criticized the acquisition for monopoly concerns and its harm to the industry. Paramount’s response, as of earlier this week, was to say anyone against this acquisition had “antisemitic views.”>As Reuters notes, lawsuits don’t always succeed at blocking mergers, but they can impede progress. If Paramount doesn’t lock this down by October, it’s on the hook to pay shareholders a near-$6.9 million daily fee. Not a nice penalty, but analysts think the company can more easily get government approval compared to Netflix. In the past year, Paramount’s been openly trying to appease the Trump administration, often at the cost of angering staff and public that’s caught on to what it’s doing.>According to Reuters, the Department of Justice may reach a decision on Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. “soon,” so we’ll have more on the merger and lawsuit as news emerges.https://gizmodo.com/us-states-will-sue-paramount-to-prevent-warner-bros-merger-2000768343
How many dirt does WB has that is scaring the cult this hard?
>>154098239>Paramount’s response, as of earlier this week, was to say anyone against this acquisition had “antisemitic views.”It's interesting how when you accuse big corpo elites of unfair business practices they often accuse you of hating jews. Gets the noggin joggin.
>>154098239Can’t believe I’m siding with California on something, but broken clocks.
>>154098579Same
Just fucking buy them already and get it over with.
>>154098369It's the boy who cried wolf except it still works.
>and they say that a hero can save us
>>154098239This is bad for cartoonfags everywhere, I don't want it either. The EU wants them to sell their animation IPs, which they have said they are willing to do. Fuck the Ellisons, I don't want Nickelodeon split up and sold in pieces so they can get their hands on irrelevant live action film IPs. This media garage sale will be terrible for these properties most likely, I think other networks will modern audience even harder with these IPs and ruin characters entirely.
>>154098895Maybe I'm retarded but I still believe a gaggle of these shows' original creators could crowdsource enough money to buy back their creations and make something of a miniature spiritual successor brand with them. Seriously just think of the sort of power Johnen, Atoms, and Warburton could build up by campaigning for something like that. AFAIK the only people who've tried as much are the Megas crew, and we still dont know if the effort was a success. RoosterTeeth is the only real precedent we have.
>>154098239Good. The merger shouldn't be allowed. It's pretty bad for the entire industry if they do merge. For cartoons it would be them, disney, and maybe youtube. You go from 5 film studios to 4, but really sony doesn't make much so it would be more like 2-3 with them, Disney, and maybe MGM/Amazon
>>154098763They need approval first
>>154099448I suppose so. Most of those are CN properties though, which I can only assume are considered not a problem.
>>154098239Commies have to commie, as always
>>154098239>no one wants paramount to control warner bros>disney controls foxSomeone care to explain why this is a bigger issue than disney monopoly over media?
>>154098343I hope it’s enough. I got money riding on this shit
>>154100502>communism is when you're against monopoliesI guess?
>>154100781no, no, communism is definitely pro-monopolies; >>154100502 is one of them self-hating tankies
>>154100658because the two satan worshipping ceos dont like each other
>>154100502STFU retard
Since Skydance is basically doing this to get control of CNN so they won't talk mean about Grandpa Donny anymore, I could see them modifying the deal to leave out the WB studio and IPs to try to get this through.Then Zaslav sells the WB portion to Sony or something.
>>154101643Again if they just wanted CNN they would have just bought the cable channels after Netflix bought them, or just bought CNN independently.They want a full media empire and control of all media platforms, which will fail since they cannot support 80 billion of debt on an AI bubble and be split up. They will keep CNN but cable is dead anyway so who will care about CNN in 2030? Only boomers watch that or Fox News and they will be dead
>>154101643>basically doing this to get control of CNNIf Ellison really wanted this, he could have tried just buying CNN instead of the entire Warner empire. Even if they weren’t looking to sell CNN, I’m sure he could through a billion to convince them.This is almost certainly an ego trip.
>>154098895>This is bad for cartoonfags everywhereWho gives a shit? Grow up, freak.
>>154098895>The EU wants them to sell their animation IPsthat's not what the EU would be having them sell, the EU doesn't care about potential IP monopolies, their concern is about a monopoly on networks, they don't want Paramount owning both Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network as TV networks, so Paramount might be required to spinoff one or the other into a separate company, in that scenario though Paramount would almost definitely hang onto the IP's of the network they get rid of**kind of like how when Disney acquired Fox they spun off most of Fox's TV networks(except the three FX channels) into the current Fox Corporation, but kept all of the IP's and most of the production studios that had been part of Fox
>>154101779Here you go, champ. >>154102049That'd be a bit better at least.
>>154098239but it's fine when disney does it
>>154100658Disney only bought the studios, the news are independent
>>154101779Tell that to yourself.
>>154101779>said the 4chan user
maybe they should just let paramount have warner bros. Let's be honest, Paramount is doing more for animation than Warner Bros is
>>154102257But then I’d be out $25
>>154099480>It's pretty bad for the entire industry if they do merge.I hope it happens then
>>154101738>>154101717>>154101643The Netflix deal basically would have let Zazlov keep CNN and Discovery and only selling Netflix all things Warner, including IPs The only way to get CNN was hostile takeover and having the investors tell Zazlov to eat a dick and force him to sell everything.Zazlov could have, at any time, made a deal to say sell CNN for a buck to Paramount just to make Ellisons go away. But he refused to do so. Because he didn't want to lose CNN.Adding to this, a lot of liberal Hollywood elite would prefer WB-Discovery stay independent and not be bought, since regardless of a partial sale or full sale, this will fuck up Hollywood even moreso than Disney buying Fox.And Gavin Newsome knows he won't be able to bury his sins and crines as California's governor if CNN falls into the hands of the Ellisons and Weiss.
>>154102173I wish Disney would financially burn
>sueing>statresStay out of our affairs if English isn't your first or second language
>>154100866Is it a monopoly if everyone collectively owns everything? Is that even how it works?
What would be the absolute worst outcome for the Ellisons here? Is there someone worse that could happen than the deal just not going through?
>>154098895Now that I think about it. Outside of DC, Harry Potter, what does WB have for a theater line-up that isn't just dredging up the corpses of beloved IPs?What? They gonna fucking remake the classics lineup "for a modern audience"?
>>154106371AI bubble pop. If the AI bubble pops too fast and too hard. We could see an honest to god "riches to rags" for Larry. We're talking about an amount of debt that can't possibly be bailed out
>>154103454this might be the pandora box of the west coast.
>>154106401Ah. Good point. Wonder what it would take for the AI bubble to pop.
>>154098800Not anymore.The people being imported into first world nations have very negative views of jews and the elites and the average normie doesn't trust them anymore after the gaza genocide and that concert bombing is widely believed to be a false flag. I'm not sure that shit works on anyone anywhere anymore.
Lefties real mad Netflix couldn't buy Warner
>>154106570True. Zios overplayed their hand and they know they’re going to need to scam some other country, since they have 10 years at most left in the US before their institutions crumble.
>>154106570Its pretty funny how Israel has undone years of brainwashing by just giving up the charade they aren't evil.
>>154106589They wouldn't be all that different situations. Mass consolidation, gobbling up the IP, and making gay lame shit relying on said IP while also shitting all over it>but the Ellisons wouldn't be wok-Newer South Park seasons were done by them, Starfleet Academy was approved by them, they said Jon Stewart and RuPaul are going to major pillars of the company going forward. The only thing that's different is CBS News not saying anything bad about Bibi.
>>154106279imagine if you couldnt leave your baggage behind your previous job or cut ties because there are no employers not owned by the government, whose leaders are decided by social favors and connections instead of monetary currency
>>154103454I keep seeing all these CNN conspiracy theories and I can't help but ask who the fuck watches CNN in 2026?A bunch of old lib boomers? Not exactly a prime demographic. Who gives a shit who owns it?
I mean, most of the woke stuff was funded by the Zios to get Americans to fight each other instead of them. Now many people part of that culture war on both sides realizes they were being exploited while a digital panopticon was built. In short, remove the Zios from power and the stuff you hate doesn’t get funded.
What is the biggest obstacle to this deal going through?
>>154109205Lava pit on level 4
>>154107302A news station is worth an entire carrier group in the 21st century war of ideas. Especially one as well-regarded as CNN (in the minds of the sheeple, anyways). You can literally, directly tell the masses what to think, and, perhaps as powerful, decline to publish stories which would undermine your message. Why do you think Fox News was the only thing Disney couldn't get from the Fox buyout?
>>154098239While I don't want Paramount and Warner merger but wouldn't Ellison can countersue California for allowing Disney Fox buyout?
>>154107302They just want to control the narrative. Having a legacies news outlets would give it legitimacy any kind of bullshit propaganda depends of which political spectrum
>>154098239let warner sell itself like a slut GODDAMN
>>154110782Is there anything of value in there anymore?They have ruined a lot of things in the past decades.
>>154110814No, but they should leave them alone on this issue of selling out; they decided that themselves.
>>154098239>No one wants Paramount to get control of Warner Bros.,I do.
>>154101643>still pushing thisSince South Park is totally pro-Trump.
>>154100658Disney buying 20th Fox was bad and this is also bad. Fake studio SkyDance shouldn't get WB and Disney should be broken up.
>>154107079>Newer South Park seasons were done by themEverything you type starting here is so patently and absurdly (and more significantly) provably wrong that it would be amusing if you being just one more ignorant imbecile on the internet wasn't so sadly common
>>154103454>>154106533Well, you've convinced me that it needs to happen.
>>154111107>i'll try lying that'll workYou're such a loser lol.
>>154100359Approval from whom?
>>154110825We know David
>>154109532But my point is the only people watching CNN already agree with its message. A sudden hard right swing would simply mean less viewers, not changed opinions.
I like how all those fuckers didn't made shit for >Disney and Lucas>Disney and Marvel>Disney and Fox>Sony and Bungie>Microsoft and Bethesda>Microsoft and Activision(It was the brits that yell about that).I hate the merger because I know some drama in DC will happen but I hate people sucking Microshit and Disney cock now talking about this as something evil.
>>154106570>Not anymore.Never has, they're up to 109 for a reason>I'm not sure that shit works on anyone anywhere anymoreAnd yet they're in process of 110 and 111. They're so comically evil they might even get orange man to turn on them once the left is finally done doing that themselves.
I saw one of Paramount's lawyers say it was a good thing because "Ellison is a filmmaker".As though the entire point isn't that Ellison flopped hard in Hollywood and is desperately trying to buy his way in.
>>154113764Disney is heckin good and can't do any wrong
>>154098239Omoshiroi
>>154111121excellent receiptsthat will show them!
>>154100658California liked Disney and hates Paramount
>>154116894Kek so you haven't watched the show then.
>>154098239GO CALIFORNIA!
>>154113764Microsoft literally saved bethesda from sony and motherfucking Providence Equity, research about them before spewing shit.
>>154121365i dont see how microsoft would've been better handlers than snoy japan desu
>>154098239>Liberal states believe people should be free to do what they want>"NoOoOoO sToP dOiNg WhAt YoU wAnT!1!"
>>154106279 Communism isn't everybody owning everything. It's the state owning everything.
>>154112946The FTC.
>>154098239They don't have the power to block this.
>>154124187No, communism is a system without a state.But that can't be done if people have been inherting power for centuries and want to go back to feudalism, so capitalists must first be eliminated. Capitalists as people who have inherited wealth for generations, not their fanboys that pretend to own capital because they have a car.People had houses and shops in the CCCP, there's no problem with ownership. The problem is conglomerating in a way that puts you above 99% of humanity.
>>154123377Are you Russian or Indian?
>>154126620>drinking the kool-aid so hard you think communism is a form of anarchyLol
>>154126620if by stateless you mean anything like a chiefdom or below with no central standing system then you would either need a massive depopulation of humanity in order for ad hoc style property arrangements to exist or to hivemind/extensively socially engineer humanity because there is no way to force 100% of everyone to push the red button otherwise, as stateless societies never had an answer to a neutral justice system besides blood feuds or arbitration. anyways that never stopped anyone who thought that state ownership of everything was the path to a stateless society from pursuing exactly that, which means that a government monopoly is always going to happen.
>>154121365>Console warring so1boyMicroshit close Tango,Redfall which Microsoft tough it was going to be a hit, BGS has been a disaster with Starfield and has been 8 years with only TES6 teaser.Would have been shit with sony ,but was not the point of the post
>>154126620>People had houses and shops in the CCCP, there's no problem with ownershipAnd every ruble they earned was property of the stateHaha there's no disparity in power if I say "our"
>>154098239What do NY and the other states have to do with this merger? NY is collapsing under garbage because it lacks money, but it has money for this.
>>154123347sony santa monica, but the one fucking the company for a decade was providence equity, whom has ties with shit
>>154113947Didn't most of those 109 countries eventually allow them back in?Also i'd love to see gypsies expelled from all 200+ countries. They are so much worse than jews.
>>154127651It objectively is. By definition communism is a stateless, classless society where the workers own the means of production. The problem is that the idea is retarded and will never work, hence all communist revolutions turning authoritarian.
>Bongs to Paramount: “Do you have a loicense to acquire WB?”https://deadline.com/2026/06/paramount-warner-bros-investigated-uk-competition-authority-1236951250/
>>154113764The FTC did sue over that one, but the judge was retarded (and had a son that works for MS) so she let it through and then MS did all the stuif she assumed they wouldn't doThe judiciary is a massive problem
>>154098343The horseshoe effect is real. Calling something the cult does not narrow it down at all
>>154126620>No, communism is a system without a state.That's anarchism, communism is the state owning everything on behalf of "the workers" to install "fairness">People had houses and shops in the CCCPAnd all of it was at the discretion of the state who would easily and often confiscate it if they deemed you as having too much.
>>154131833Nah that’s only supposed to be the transitionary period. Obviously an authoritarian control over a state is the complete antithesis of communism. No one’s ever made it out of the transitional phase tho because they usually drunk with power, or get paranoid about counter revolutions, external interference, and shit
>>154131920That's the inherent flaw with the ideology, you can only enforce full societal equality of wealth by having absolute control of the state/institutions and once those have absolute power they will never acquiesce it because it goes against basic human nature, especially so if it requires a violent revolution to institute in the first place which has been the case with almost all communist regimes.
>>154131833>That's anarchismAlmost.The difference between anarchism and communism is that under communism everyone just magically agrees with each other.No individual ever have their own desires or ever disagree with other individuals, because everyone always works together in accordance to the collective interest.You don't need a state if everyone always agrees.
>>154131984No, but you see, if we're totalitarian for long enough and for hard enough, then we'll magically create a system in which by definition there is no government. There's absolutely no way the dictatorship of the proletariat or the vanguard party would ever actually want to hold onto power.
