{"id":2111641,"date":"2025-10-24T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2111641"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:38:17","slug":"wga-says-warner-bros-merger-would-be-a-disaster-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wga-says-warner-bros-merger-would-be-a-disaster-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"WGA Says Warner Bros. Merger Would Be a \u2018Disaster\u2019 for Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The Writers Guild of America came out swinging on Thursday against a merger between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> and any other studio, saying such consolidation would be a \u201cdisaster\u201d for writers.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes two days after Warner Bros. said it is considering \u201cmultiple offers.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>, freshly acquired by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a>\u2019s Skydance, is the most eager suitor. Any deal involving another content producer would shrink the number of buyers in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerger after merger in the media industry has harmed workers, diminished competition and free speech, and wasted hundreds of billions of dollars better invested in organic growth,\u201d the WGA&#8230;<\/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>The Writers Guild of America came out swinging on Thursday against a merger between Warner Bros. and any other studio, saying such consolidation would be a \u201cdisaster\u201d for writers. The statement comes two days after Warner Bros. said it is considering \u201cmultiple offers.\u201d Paramount, freshly acquired by David Ellison\u2019s Skydance, is the most eager suitor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2111641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WGA-Says-Warner-Bros-Merger-Would-Be-a-\u2018Disaster-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111643,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111641\/revisions\/2111643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}