{"id":2031237,"date":"2025-09-18T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2031237"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:59:14","slug":"fx-chairman-john-landgraf-says-paramount-wbd-deal-or-another-mega-merger-is-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fx-chairman-john-landgraf-says-paramount-wbd-deal-or-another-mega-merger-is-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"FX Chairman John Landgraf Says Paramount-Wbd Deal (Or Another Mega Merger) Is \u201cInevitable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0484723\/\">John Landgraf<\/a> has said that a Paramount Skydance takeover of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>, or another mega studio merger, is a matter of when, not if.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0902824\/\">FX<\/a> chairman said it was \u201cinevitable\u201d that there would be seismic consolidation as legacy studios aim to compete with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0546168\/\">Apple<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0202446\/\">YouTube<\/a>. His comments come as speculation about Paramount Skydance\u2019s interest in Wbd heats up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0150820\/\">Royal<\/a> Television <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0564794\/\">Society<\/a>\u2019s Cambridge Convention on Thursday, Landgraf said: \u201cWe have an industry that, from a structural standpoint, requires some consolidation. We can\u2019t have as many streaming services, certainly not global streaming services, and some of the great legacy majors in the United States don\u2019t really have enough scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s why you see \u2014 between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0154201\/\">Universal<\/a>, and Warner Brothers \u2014 a desire to consolidate at least two of those companies to try to create another distributor that has a scale globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Landgraf has said that a Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, or another mega studio merger, is a matter of when, not if. The FX chairman said it was \u201cinevitable\u201d that there would be seismic consolidation as legacy studios aim to compete with Netflix, Apple, and YouTube. 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