{"id":1013707,"date":"2026-08-20T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:54:15","slug":"nithya-raman-paramount-warner-bros-should-be-decided-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013707\/","title":{"rendered":"Nithya Raman: Paramount-Warner Bros. \u201cShould Be Decided in Court”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLos Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman<\/a> is sticking by her position that the legality of the Paramount<\/a>\u2013Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> merger should be decided in court.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sitting L.A. councilmember reiterated her support for California Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2018s antitrust suit to block the $111 billion deal in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLos Angeles\u2019 film industry is already in crisis. The Paramount\u2013Warner Bros. Discovery merger would deepen it, costing an estimated 4,500 film and television jobs, more than 10,000 jobs regionwide, and billions of dollars in economic activity, according to a new County report,\u201c Raman said. \u201cThis is a bad deal for entertainment workers and a bad deal for Los Angeles. That\u2019s why I support Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2019s antitrust lawsuit and stand with the workers fighting this merger.\u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Councilmember added, \u201cParamount\u2019s threat to leave California<\/a> unless the lawsuit is dropped is an attempt to strong-arm our state. Serious questions about this merger\u2019s legality should be decided in court, not through corporate threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRaman\u2018s statement arrived on the same day that sitting Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference<\/a> calling for a hasty resolution to the standoff between Bonta and Paramount Skydance. \u201cIt is time for all parties to come to the table. The continued uncertainty is not good for workers, not good for productions and not good for the future of this industry,\u201c\u00a0Bass said. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe sitting mayor added that any solution must include enforceable commitments to keep Paramount and Warner Bros. based in L.A. and to retain jobs, film and TV shoots and investment in California.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn saying so, Bass followed the lead of movie theater trade group Cinema United and the unions the Directors Guild of America and IATSE, which also have recently asked the parties in the lawsuit to come together quickly and hash out their differences to avoid any further industry disruption.<\/p>\n

\n\tRaman and Bass are set to go toe-to-toe in the general election in November. While Bass has gained the support of some Hollywood crew unions<\/a> and industry figures like J.J. Abrams and Samuel L. Jackson, Raman \u2014 whose husband Vali Chandrasekaran was a writer-producer on 30 Rock and Modern Family \u2014 has her own deep bench of Hollywood supporters, especially amongst writers and comedians.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe mayoral candidates\u2018 statements on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal arrived just one day after the L.A. Department of Economic Opportunity and CVL Economics\u00a0released a report<\/a> detailing how thousands of jobs are at risk as a result of the proposed merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman is sticking by her position that the legality of the Paramount\u2013Warner Bros.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1013708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,249286,15329,27281],"class_list":["post-1013707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-nithya-raman","tag-paramount","tag-warner-bros-discovery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117130301826649521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}