{"id":995286,"date":"2026-08-12T03:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/995286\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:11:15","slug":"wga-responds-to-david-ellisons-threat-to-pull-paramount-from-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/995286\/","title":{"rendered":"WGA Responds To David Ellison’s Threat To Pull Paramount From CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, the Writers Guild of America<\/a> has not taken kindly to Paramount Skydance<\/a> CEO David Ellison<\/a>\u2018s latest threat to pull the storied studio out of California if state AG Rob Bonta<\/a>\u00a0refuses to settle\u00a0an antitrust suit<\/a>\u00a0to block the planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy threatening to leave the state because it doesn\u2019t want the government to enforce the law, Paramount further proves the danger of its outsized power over the industry and what that will mean for writers and the creative community,\u201d the guild said in a statement to Deadline on Tuesday afternoon. \u201cThis type of behavior is precisely why the merger should be blocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The WGA is also suing to block the merger<\/a>. That lawsuit, filed jointly by the\u00a0WGA<\/a>\u00a0East and West in the Northern District of California, seeks to stop the $110 billion acquisition on the grounds that it violates federal antitrust law and would cause specific harm to writers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The writers opted to file their own suit rather than join Bonta and a group of 20 state Attorneys General in their case in order to target labor-specific concerns the AGs\u2019 action doesn\u2019t cover \u2014 though the cases are related and have been assigned to the same judge.<\/p>\n

Bonta\u2019s case is set to go to trial in federal court in the Northern District of California March 2027. He\u2019s already responded to Ellison\u2019s threats as well<\/a>, calling it \u201canother attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellison made his comments to the company\u2019s top executives at a meeting last week, affirming that he will start the process of exiting California on October 1, unless Bonta negotiates a settlement. October 1 is the day Paramount starts to accrue a so-called ticking fee of $7 million a day agreed to in the\u00a0WBD<\/a>\u00a0deal terms if the transaction hasn\u2019t closed by then. Paramount had asked the judge for a November trial date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, the Writers Guild of America has not taken kindly to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison\u2018s latest…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":995287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[32129,171,77684,67,132,68,75576,294505,291724,32118],"class_list":["post-995286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-david-ellison","tag-entertainment","tag-paramount-skydance","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wga","tag-wga-east","tag-wga-west","tag-writers-guild-of-america"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117080353363856640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995286","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=995286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}