California AG Calls Out Ellison, Paramount; "We Intend to Win": Bonta

by Ray Flook

With the antitrust lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta (along with Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington) and the WGA to block David Ellison's Paramount Skydance and its $110 billion deal to acquire David Zaslav's Warner Bros Discovery now set for March 2027, we've been hearing a lot lately from Ellison and Paramount. But that changed on Monday, with California Attorney General Rob Bonta making the case in a guest column for Deadline Hollywood for why they're taking on Ellison's efforts to own Warner Bros. Discovery, accusing Paramount of "spearheading a public relations campaign to spin a narrative that is simply false" and laying out the reasoning behind the antitrust lawsuit.