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

Simply once we’d all gotten used to (and tired of) Warner Bros.’ merger with Discovery, we realized the corporate’s open to having another owner. The information of one more potential merger has drawn plenty of damaging 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 stated to mix Warner Bros. with any of the foremost studios could be “a catastrophe for writers, for customers, and for competitors. Merger after merger within the media business has harmed employees, diminished competitors and free speech, and wasted lots of of billions of {dollars} higher invested in natural progress.”

Up to now, Paramount is the studio most chomping on the bit to accumulate 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 considered one of 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 accumulate it, the 2 WGA branches have vowed to “work with regulators to dam the merger.”

[via Variety]

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