Raymond Liu

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Morning Brew Daily · Oil Prices Keep Climbing & ‘Moana’ Flops at the Box Office · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Then in 1976, Congress amended the Clayton Act that authorizes state AGs to bring any antitrust violations of the Sherman Act to federal court.

So bringing it back to today, this coalition led by California's AG Rob Bonta

is essentially saying the federal government here isn't doing its job properly, which means the states have to step up and step in as a check against corporate consolidation.

Heavy hitters.

So just to remind people, if this deal closes, there would just be essentially four companies, Paramount, Disney, Universal, and Sony, that would control roughly 86% of the market for widely released films.

And those four distributors would control more than 90%

of top grossing films according to the lawsuit.

And I do want to be clear here.

These are big budget films like your typical summer blockbuster.

So the States want to focus on the fact that this merger would kind of give Paramount the ability to dominate these big wide releases, because I think they feel like they would have a bigger case in this.

Otherwise, you know, they don't want to just tackle the entire film industry.

It kind of be too broad of a case for them to win.

Another thing to note here is that David Ellison publicly pledged to release at least 30 films a year in cinemas to help theaters out, which actually got the backing of AMC to support the deal.

But there's another group called Cinemas United, which represents 31,000 screens, more than 31,000 screens across the country.

They're actually fully backing the state's case because they're saying it wouldn't just affect Hollywood and LA and Tinseltown.

It would actually hurt small town theaters in smaller communities.

Moving on, is it possible to have Moana fatigue after just three films?

Well, Disney found out the hard way.

The live action Moana had its sights on a $60 million opening, but only came away with $43 million at the domestic box office over the weekend.

It's a troubling start for Disney that sunk in about $250 million to make and another $100 million to market.

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