>Ellison told Paramount senior execs last week that he’s prepared to relocate Paramount (and Warner Bros., too, if the merger successfully closes) if Bonta does not agree to negotiate a settlement in the case, sources confirmed to Variety. Ellison said the company will begin the process of exiting California starting Oct. 1 in the event that such talks have not started, and he told his team the Paramount Skydance board has approved the move. Paramount’s L.A. headquarters would move out the state first, with tax incentives from states allegedly helping to cover the costs of the relo. Ellison also outlined a five-year plan to shift most studio jobs out of California, sources said. In a sign of how sudden this decision is, Paramount hasn’t yet decided where its new home might be; the company is considering destinations including Georgia, Texas and Tennessee.
RIP whatever red state all those commies go to.
>>222473421Do it, bitch
>>222473458Georgia is already ruined. Giving tax breaks to attract motion picture/media production companies resulted in it going purple within just a few years.
>>222473421>some jew announces he's gonna do jewish tricks
>>222473513North GA is still quite lovely and unspoiled
Makes sense considering all the political games played and not just around this particular merger. Staying and handing out billions of dollars there would be humiliating. You're enabling them at that point.
>>222473458This. The Jew filth should be contained to California.
>>222473421this is about to get very lulzy
>>222473421Based. Death to California. Build the wall around this commie breeding pit.
Libtards like Capitalism and hate White people, but then act surprised that most of the people who they buddied up with (due to their mutual hate of White people) also hate Capitalism.
>>222473628Parts of it are ruined already and it's just a matter of time for the rest.
>>222473421Oh no! Not Paramount! What will california ever do without the company that brought us the world's shittiest steaming app? Whatever redneck shithole gets them is in for 100s of dollars
>let us fuck up this other company or we’ll fuck up our own company in retaliation!
>>222474017Both of these companies were already fucked up before the Ellisons were in the picture. That's how they were able to get involved to begin with.
>>222473421what a little bitch
>>222473458Texas is already flooded with jeets. It's over
this dumbass really likes to waste money doesn't he? Just last year he had moved the corporate HQs to California from New York
>>222473458The goyim is weak to shekels
bold move, disruptive, exactly what's needed when it comes to Hollywood
>>222473421Come to Texas. We're cooler than Cali.
>be 3rd generation Jewish film exec in LA>never in your life have you set foot in a non-air-conditioned room>never in your life have you drank a bottle of water that cost less than 20 dollars>never in your life have you been more than one phonecall away from a cocaine blowjob>get bought by Warren Ellis>now you live in Tennessee
>>222473692They do it to themselves. This anti-trust case is total bullshit. How the fuck are you a monopoly if you have competition already established? They're just trying to extort money.
>>222473421Good, let Paramount and WB fail.
>>222473692>thinks this means California will be walled off and not that Californiaism will spread to other statesSome of you were really easilly fooled by the "Ellisons are totally against woke" narrative huh
hollywood already outsources to georgia.i hope this leads to more middle americans getting hollywood jobs, its over for coastal elites!
>>222475332>georgia isn't coastal
come on, you know its going to be texas, it shares a border with mexico, its got oil and tech industry, they could put it austin and they would be surrounded by libtards just like califronia
>>222475332>i hope this leads to more middle americans getting hollywood jobsA few do but most of those jobs go to Californians w/ experience who move in
>>222475332>its over for coastal elites!What do you think the Ellison family is
>>222475285I dunno liberals have been getting hysterical about them since this announcement. Before this I never heard the phrase "The Ellisons" but after this announcement it was everywhere like leftists downloaded their near bogeyman phrase over night
>>222473513>leftists ruin state>move to right wing state to escape leftism>vote Democrat>leftists ruin stateThis is why only land owners used to be able to vote, so you had a long term interest
>>222475530>leftists don't own land
>>222475512>I dunno
>>222475667>ESL Euro faggot yet again talking about American politicsThanks for letting me know I wasted my time
It's easy to relocate the accountants and useless desk job people, but execs are probably going to hate having to constantly fly to LA and it'll take a long while to transition studios out of California. It's easy to move your own people, but contractors aren't necessarily going to follow them out.
>>222475530It is the fault of of Republicans at the state level though, Georgia had been pretty red for a while. Then the R governor and his pals in the state legislature enacted for tax breaks for Hollywood media companies and the state is now purple. Of all the industries to try to attract they chose the most pozzed one of all. Those politicians don't give a shit though, all of them have enough money to leave and likely already have a home in another part of the country.
>>222475753Just ignore that the repubs have gone full retard in the opposite direction. That's the ultimate problem.
>>222475530They're like a biblical plague. Wokeness, leftism, communism it's all the same thing.
>It's the hecking libs from California and New York invading our ungodly corrupt shitholes and not conservative boomers looking to bury their talents in the sand before shuffling off this mortal coil.
correct its the libs. The moment they invaded texas it went to shit
>>222476066always how it goes. there are no laws saying you have to sell your property to some californian. >i could sell to this local guy for less money and help strengthen the community and local ties like i always talk about>no, I'll sell to joel epstein from new york out of greed, then complain about it
rightards are truly pathetics
>>222473458it’s a bluff you buffoon.
For those who haven’t been keeping up with this, to get his bid approved David Ellison agreed to pay shareholders over a million dollars per day if the merger doesn’t close within six months, i.e. before October. Keep in mind that Netflix’s merger had an ETA of at least a year and a half and Ellison’s own aquisition of Paramount, which itself was unusually fast-tracked due to DOJ connections, took a year to complete. On top of federal approval he needs state approval from all they do business in, and because of that the merger can’t continue until next March pending the completion of two antitrust suits.He’s also recently made a deal with Regal Cinemas and AMC that both WB and Paramount must put out 30 theatrical films a year for the next five years in exchange for them not speaking out against the merger, and at the same time he’s promised to investors they’re gonna lay off tons of people for savings. And the only people confirmed safe from this? The ones that made Supergirl. And now on top of all of that they’re planning to move states while they still need California’s approval for the merger to go through. I thought these people were supposed to be smart.
He'll move it to Florida since that's where all the big Js are now fleeing to.
>>222473421>worthless kike company is threatening to leave worthless commie stateRiveting news. Norm, say the line.
>>222475603>leftists don't own landComparatively fewer, yes.
>>222476320If only landowners were allowed to vote, why'd they let others vote? Were they closet leftists?
>>222476241It's not. Just wait and see.
Reading this thread it's pathetic how chuds think chugging zionist cum is a badge of honour kek
Fuck Commiefornia. They deserve losing almost a half of Hollywood.
>>222476626>*taps sign*>>222476568
>>222473458You read my mind. And they ALWAYS choose red states so they can infect those states with their bullshit.
>>222476680They choose red states because the taxes are lower. Same reason they choose Canada.
>>222476657Eat shit and kill yourself, fucktard troon.
>>222476232Ellison must be doing something right if commies and troons are so butthurt.
>>222476727Then they infect the state to flip it blue. Then the socialists who's campaigns they supported with corporate profits get into power. Then the socialists over-spend on social programs, immigrant programs, and all sorts of money-laundering scams to make themselves rich. Then the socialists demand everyone else (((PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE))) while raising taxes.
>>222476840>a handful of temporary residents flip a whole stateSure thing, big guy.
>>222473421if people had any taste, these studios would already be out of business.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pov0MKuyJfg&ra=m
>>222476887Nice deflection, rabbi. That's exactly why red states get more immigrants than blue states do, and why blue states send their ghetto welfare overpopulation to red states.
>>222473421Imagine a show about a bunch of Californians trying to adapt and live in Texas. Now THAT is television!
>>222477094They did just like immigrants do: they pick a targeted area, engage in ethnic cleansing to drive out all not their kind, and enjoy "a community with people they can identify with." There are parts of Austin that are 100% fags, trannies, and rainbow-hairs now, and every last one of them is a blue-state democrat who came to infect. And democrats are 100% about ethnic cleansing. They defend doing it by calling it "creating minority-representation voting districts so various special snowflakes can have a seat in government." Never mind that ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity by UN law. Democrats can't gain voting districts without it.
>>222477189Really? I overestimated Texas then. I was sure those guys would just shoot anyone mentioning pronouns on sight.
>>222477189You don't even know what ethnic cleansing means, you dum dum. Also the Dems are not gerrymandering Texas. Stop talking about shit you don't know anything about.
>>222474927
>>222473692Won’t work. You think Cali became libshit central on its own zoomer? It voted against gay marriage and illegal immigration. Both were turned down by the Supreme Court. Wall it off and you’re just guaranteeing the first domino has fallen.
>>222477478You're manipulating to downplay the crime. And democrats don't gerrymander, and instead overwhelm voting districts with selected democrats for "minority representation" then take those districts over.
>>222476268Wait, slow it down. >Paramount Skydance is set to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for $111 billion>Beat Netflix and Comcast in bidding.>The acquisition is backed by sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, which will hold a 38.5% non-voting stake>$7 billion termination fee if the deal collapses Opposed to merger.CA, NY+ other states on anti trust grounds.WGA and other unions on anti competition.
>>222473458This, they escape commies while spreading the commie ideas where they go like a pest
>>222473421This was bound to happen. Why did they make movies in California to being with instead of New York mecca of broadway? Because it was cheaper. It hasn’t been the case now for decades. Georgia is good option
>>222476887>ignores how Colorado went to shitI live in commiefornia and wish nuclear war or the San Andreas would wake up already. Cure the country of the cancer.
>>222477581Anon, I hate to break it to you but somebody has to tell it to you straight: the demographics of texas are changing and minorities want representation. This is not some insidious takeover but exactly how the system is made to work not a crime. Deal with it.
>>222473458It's going to be TexasPlenty of land, infrastructure pretty good in enough areas, state government loves israel and jews, jeets for plenty of corrupt local governance, right to work, plenty of low cost no union physical workersonly major downside is winters, while short, can be harsh and the gulf coast sucks compared to california coast
>>222477690>I live in commiefornia and wish nuclear war or the San Andreas would wake up already. Cure the country of the cancer.Basado.
>>222473421What a bluff. Such a move would cost billions in opportunity costs alone, no way that in Trump’s America they’d get that covered by “tax incentives”. I say: Do it, I fucking dare you.Related – does Paramount even produce anything of value these days?
>>222476840>Then the socialists over-spend on social programs, immigrant programs, and all sorts of money-laundering scams to make themselves rich.Ah yes, the socialist like Trump and his cronies?
>>222473458They're relocating operations to the last place that hasn't been corrupted by woke... ISRAEL.
>>222475748It's rather obvious that you dunno.
California, unfortunately, has perfect weather and people will put up with a lot of shit to have it. They'll regret it immediately.
>>222476825Yeah let's give another 30 billion to Israel my fellow pede
>>222479245Oh man, that is going to own the libtards EPIC STYLE. Just like based Milo and stuff.
>>222479245You'll do shit, groomer.
>>222473421That is fucked up. I know a ton of Hollywood crew slaves and if the studios move out of California they are fucked. These people have mortgages lmao
>>222479658They'll be replaced by cheap immigrants just as they wanted to.
>>222473664It should be contained to Israel. Then we drop a nuke or two on it.
Cali should just sink into the sea.Learn to swim.
>>222479658Yo, those fuckers need to be pivoting NOW. AI is going to decimate soundstage usage.
>>222473421American Samoa would be nice
>>222473421A few points:1. With taxes, government BS, and an an almost endless supply of new problems, Cali is no longer appealing as it once was, especially since you have good weather in other states too.2. The threat to move Paramount out of Cali is the stick in the 'carrot and stick' discussion now between Paramount and those states suing him. I would argue that the threat to move out was made (and it was made several months ago) as an incentive for states not to fuck around with the merger. The states are doing it at the last minute because the know about the ticking fee, and that puts pressure on Paramount to make a deal.3. If the states fuck up this $100 million merger, they can absolutely expect to be blacklisted in the movie industry. That means no more movie shoots in this states, no more jobs, no more money.
>>222480252No company wants this merger retard, it’s a doomed merger.
>>222480552Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery have a signed deal; so at least two companies were in favor
>>222480592nta but Zaslav and the shareholders just want a shitton of money and don't care beyond that. Most of the other people working in either company don't seem to want it to happen either. It's really just Ellison who'd blacklist over this because he's a petty retard, and he's already doing that over Israel anyway so might as well just make sure he doesn't get his hands on more of the industry than he already has.
>>222473421so Texas? lol
>>222473628the niggeriest state in the country possibly, is lovely? bullshit.
>>222473421I'm sure this is a serious threat that would totally work out for them and not be a legendary disaster at all.
>>222473458I’m prepared to go chud up California when the time is right. I’ve heard it’s already mostly red except for LA and San Fagtopia
>>222481174>anon learns about the urban/rural divide
>>222481174You should go to Bakersfield. Nothing but redneck retards and spics.
>>222481273No I want to go to a libtard stronghold and try to flip it.
>>222477776>Importing millions of brown foreigners is heckin normal for a country to do
>>222481303Good luck with that. You will have to split the rent with 4 out of state liberals.
>>222478811It's not even the first time they tried it, they said the same thing right before the suit was filed only it was Texas for sure and now they're not sure what state they'll run away to
>>222481303Yeah buddy, you'll do great I'm sure
>>222481503I can be very persuasive.
>>222473421>Tennessee Please no. I don’t want Paramount here.
The contractual deadline to close the Paramount WB merger is on Sep 30. Paramount will have to pay WB shareholders $210m a month in ticking fees starting Oct 1 until the deal is finalized. David Ellison is kvetching because a judge pushed the antitrust trial all the way back to March 2027. The total will be $1b when all is said and done.Imagine the immense amount of money you will have to pay to relocate your entire business to another state on TOP of this monthly payment. This is just a bluff.
I remember when all those New York City companies were threatening to move to Miami and Dallas. It turns out hurricane insurance is expensive, and Texas is full of complete retards and Dallas is hot, boring, no redeeming natural qualities, the weather is horrible, etc.In the same vein, the Ellison family are just one of many Jewish families like the Kushners who support Israel 100% over the USA and have Trump in their pocket. They don’t actually care about Georgia or Texas; they just want some American goy taxpayers to foot their bill so they can save a few shekels off of doing zero labor. A tale as old as time
>>222473943Paramount plus has almost nothing to offer but wtf is even on Peacock
>>222482857They said the same thing about Toyota, until it moved it's HQ to Tenessee of all places. Regardless of the outcome here, I would expect less hollywood jobs in California no matter what.
>>222480999Zaslav openly told shareholders they're just kicking back and waiting until >>222482358 happens to get a massive payout. Ellison is a colossal retard that got handed the company because daddy had money, but even he doesn't have enough money to dig him out of the pit he's pushing himself into.
>>222483340If the verdict in the antitrust trial comes after the first week in June 2027, WBD can just walk away from this deal since Paramount were contractually obligated to get this closed by June 4th. They would be on the hook for $7b in breakup fees. It's guaranteed that Zaslav is going to do this which is why he's chimping out trying to find a way to get this settled with the state AGs before then.
>>222475530Same modus operandi as a virus. Kind of chilling tbqh. California must be close to death if a new host is being sought.
>>222483429Suppose this happens. WBD still goes for a merger, except with Comcast instead?
>>222483496More likely that they'll use the $7b to pay off some of their debts then spin off Discovery into its own company. At that point, Netflix will probably make a play for WB again, this time for a lot cheaper and without the networks. I think this was always the plan which is why they chose to back out.
>>222483602I should add that spinning off Discovery was always the plan until Paramount expressed interest in acquiring WBD in September 2025
>>222476268>He’s also recently made a deal with Regal Cinemas and AMC that both WB and Paramount must put out 30 theatrical films a year for the next five years in exchange for them not speaking out against the merger,Does anyone really believe that Paramount would be able to put out 30 theatrical films a year? Really?
>>222476290>Norm, say the line.He was in Northern Canada?
>>222483755No which is way the California AG who keeps dabbing on Ellison isn't having ithttps://deadline.com/2026/08/california-ag-rob-bonta-open-structural-remedies-paramount-wbd-1237031430/>He defined structural remedies as “keeping certain corporate entities separate … in the markets that we have challenged in our complaint. That’s what we’re interested in. We’ve heard a lot about what we call behavioral remedies >… A promise to behave in a certain way in the future. A promise to make a certain amount of movies, for example, in a given year. That’s a behavioral remedy. Those are typically not enforceable in the way that we like. Not particularly good at solving the problem.
>>222483755Perhaps re releases are included? Perhaps he's going with a zerg strategy, give lots of people little budgets and see which ones make it?Perhaps he's planing to default and will pay the penalty afterwards?
>>222483799why*
>>222483799How much of what the AGs are doing are legit, and how much is political slapfights?
>>222473421Let's let all the MIGA chuds and their billionaire heroes move to Texas, surround themselves with all of their valuable pajeets, and throw them out of the country.It can form it's own Banana Republic after it turns over 90% of the military hardware the Blue States paid for.
>>222483847>doesn't care that CNN is part of the deal (Ellison is trying to make it political)>doesn't want thousands of people to be laid off which Paramount will do if this deal goes through since they have to pay off an immense amount of debt ($80b)>Paramount WBD would have too much control over theatre distribution (30%) and a lot of leverage over cable distributors because of their huge catalog>less competition over which movies are made
You dipshits aren't actually taking the side of this kike and his media conglomerate, are you? I know you have a pathological hatred for Democrats and all, but your politicbrains are fucking rotted if your blaming muh Commiefornia for this.
>>222483963Historically, 4chan has always bent over for "THEIR Jew".
>>222483963People who have entirely reactionary (in the sense of being a reaction) ideologies based on no real conviction beyond wanting to own the libs aren't the smartest people around.They were run out of /pol/ for being sniveling sycophants and now they've infested the rest of the website.
>>222481114they have their own mt rushmore and its even bigger than mt rushmore and bigger than any relief carving in the worldits called stone mountain and its awesome
>>222483945You are too direction brained to be credible. >>Paramount WBD would have too much control over theatre distribution (30%) and a lot of leverage over cable distributors because of their huge catalogThis seems to be the only salient point you've made, other than the obvious, yes, Ellison is also a political slapfighter.
>>222483852Are you even here for tv shit at all or did you get lost on the way to pol?
>>222484231The merger isn't happening, DavidCry harder to Daddy Trump lol
>>222483963You idiot. I'm trying to read the moves here for personal financial advantage. I see no reason to particularly trust OR distrust one set of political assholes over their rivals in this regard. But lets put you to the test. WB with Netflix vs WB with Paramont vs WB with comcast. Which one do you favor and why?
>>222484276Make the case for the other alternatives or fuck off.
>>222484302netflix and comcast are already way bigger than paramount, 400 billion, 200 billion, and 22 billion respectivlyits pretty obvious who wins the anti monopoly and anti trust arguments here, but to tell you the truth i dont care about thati think the south park creators want that choice the least
>>222477602>Opposed to merger.>CA, NY+ other states on anti trust groundsdid they actually articulate the "anti trust grounds" arguments
>>222484302>Which one do you favor and why?The more companies a media conglomerate gobbles up, the more slop they tend to churn out. I'm not in favor of any of them.
>>222484378>i think the south park creators want that choice the leastWell, south park wants their shit on multiple platforms. Less channels is worse for them, regardless. I'm not sure how making one of the other big channels bigger is any better for them. They also might have it in directly with Paramont's top people.
>>222483963California is unironically a massively shithole.
>>222484536What state isn't these days? Vermont? Maine? Trust me, your red state is far from a utopia, Blake.
>>222484593Any state where the median house isn't 900,000 dollars for starters I would say.
>>222484604California is actually a lot nicer than most red states... if you can afford to live there.
>>222473458Why dont they pick Colorado or idk Oregon? Both nice blue states
>>222473628Sounds perfect for some data centres
>>222484444Primarily that the concentration is too high for tv streaming and movies. Of course the fucks let the Disney Fox merger go through, and combined, WB/paramount would be smaller than some of the bigs. so I think it's a matter of what they can extract as far as concessions rather than stopping this.
>>222473513>>222474186Georgia then Texas. Both primed to go the way of Commiefornia which is going to go the way of Mexico. At this rate the entire South will be lost.
>>222473421BYE BITCH
>>222477690>>ignores how Colorado went to shitThis is so true it hurtsI came here almost 20 years ago and all the assholes came from the West Coast in the last 10 years after they ruined their homes and continued to vote the same retarded shit hereWe also had net loss like California last year, this place turned into a tax and bureaucratic nightmareSimple permits are no longer a thing, fucking gay ass green agenda from Boulder and Denver ruining the state and everything Fuck you faggots from CA WA OR IL MN that came here after 2020 summer of love
>>222477776>>222477478Is this one of those>It's not happening>Okay, it is happening but its a good thing
>>222473421They’re going to Texas that’s where the super computer is
Why does David Ellison look like he's the butt baby of Peter Thiel
i wish all of silicon valley would be nuked off the planet and everyone who works in tech would be vaporized.
>>222473421Everyone was fine when it was Netflix.
>>222473421so why should california care? states full, fuck off to any other state and take all the flyover wannabes with you
>>222483963Umm, hello? He's an ally of Kekistan. He and his dad are business partners of based Trump (peace be upon him) and will usher in a new age of Israeli influence over America forever. Fuck off, libtard, /tv/ is Bannon and Theil and Elison clay.
>>222487272How is netflix connected to Israel?
>>222473421That is one creepy, dead-eyed motherfucker right there.
>>222487272Didn't get past DOJ approval while this did
>>222484225>A memorial to the people in charge of quite possibly the most Jewish endeavor in history (keeping blacks in the US)like pottery, amerisharts
>>222480552Netflix and/or Apple are probably happy because once the Ellisons get bored of this they'll be able to buy the combined WB/Paramount corpse on the cheap.
>>222473513You fucking retard, even by the mid 00's georgia was like 30% transplant and growing.Also as atlanta expands it becomes more and more of the representative vote in the state, and its simple demographics, urban areas lean liberal because its a practical problem not a political one. Most retards don't actually know this but the term liberal or conservative in regards to government is just if you prefer MORE government or LESS. If you live in a city you NEED more government because hundreds of thousands to millions of people need civil utilities to function. If you live out in the rural areas, you don't. You get a big propane tank filled up a few times a year, have a well on your property, and a septic system and all you need from the government is your farm subsidy check and to maybe lay down some new asphalt on a road once ever 20 years.
What an extremely credible threat that definitely isn't a negotiating tactic.
>>222487499No you're wrong as well
>>222483945Disney buying Fox was a bigger conflict. Not a single part of Paramount is successful anymore and that's been true for nearly 15 years now. Their share of the boxoffice has been consistently <10% . Linear television is dead. Paramount+ isn't even a top 5 streamer in the U.S.This is a failed company merging with a mishandled/failing company.
Damn look how mad the shills are.
>>222484483Typically media mergers are never the sum of their parts. What usually happens is that the smaller/less successful company has its most popular properties mined with everything else shitcanned. Disney and 20th Century Studios are undoubtedly putting out less than Disney and 20th Century Fox did.
>>222481503Jelly of that wolf
