Dawn Chmielewski
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first heard Jul 2026
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It was going to be acquired by another major publisher, Random House, and the Justice Department blocked that deal.
And the reason it did so was it said that this combined publishing entity would have nearly 50% control of the publishing world and could effectively set prices for acquisition as blockbusters and limit the kinds of advances that
That writers would receive.
So the Writers Guild is making the same argument in this combination.
dawned you know what it means for consumers in in the end what the attorneys general are arguing is if a combined studio has uh so much market power it can actually command higher fees from the movie theaters that are licensing the rights to show the biggest films in the world and that can translate to either to higher ticket prices for consumers or less money
in the coffers for these movie theaters to make improvements like better seating or better concessions or bigger screens.
That's how the attorneys general say this might harm not just
Paramount is insisting this deal is pro-competitive.
They're arguing, look, the world has changed and the biggest competitors aren't necessarily other studios.
They're technology giants that are also playing this place.
Players like Apple and Amazon who have enormous resources.
So Paramount is arguing, look, we need to combine to fortify ourselves and compete.
It's true.
Look, Paramount, even after it acquired Skydance, is still a tiny competitor in the world market.
It's arguing that its competition isn't just those vying for the TV screen in our living rooms or the TV screen in theaters, but all of our entertainment time, we're looking at social media feeds, we're looking at TikTok clips.
So it is a world where the competitors are global in scale and have enormous resources.
So Paramount, like every other
The company is arguing it needs more heft, it needs more IP, and it needs to be just simply a larger force to compete.
I understand the argument they're making, but let's also be clear that it is also an existential moment here in Hollywood.
There are concerns that a deal like this with something like $80 billion in debt is going to necessarily result in some cuts.
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