Like All of Us, the WGA Dislikes One other Warner Bros. Merger

Simply after we’d all gotten used to (and tired of) Warner Bros.’ merger with Discovery, we discovered the corporate’s open to having another owner. The information of yet one more potential merger has drawn a number of detrimental reactions, and now the Writers Guild of America has its personal tackle the matter. Spoiler: they don’t prefer it.

In a joint assertion from its east and west branches, the WGA mentioned to mix Warner Bros. with any of the key studios could be “a catastrophe for writers, for customers, and for competitors. Merger after merger within the media business has harmed staff, diminished competitors and free speech, and wasted a whole lot of billions of {dollars} higher invested in natural development.”

So far, Paramount is the studio most chomping on the bit to amass Warner Bros. It was first hinted at back in 2023, and the will’s solely grown now that the Transformers studio has gone and merged with Skydance, whose proprietor David Ellison is the son of 1 Larry Ellison, head of Oracle and one among Donald Trump’s strongest supporters. Again in September, reviews indicated Ellison was making a play for all of WB, together with its cable networks and film studio.

Outdoors of Paramount, different potential candidates seeking to nab Warner Bros. embody streamers Amazon, Netflix and Apple. Whichever studio makes an actual play to amass it, the 2 WGA branches have vowed to “work with regulators to dam the merger.”

[via Variety]

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