{"id":2303666,"date":"2026-02-27T19:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2303666"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:06:40","slug":"the-battle-for-warner-bros-may-be-over-but-regulatory-scrutiny-of-paramounts-deal-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-battle-for-warner-bros-may-be-over-but-regulatory-scrutiny-of-paramounts-deal-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle For Warner Bros May Be Over, But Regulatory Scrutiny Of Paramount\u2019s Deal Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paramount<\/a> may have won the bidding for Warner Bros.<\/a> Discovery<\/a>, but the regulatory and political scrutiny is not over.<\/p>\n

Hours after Netflix<\/a> announced that it would not offer a rival bid, California\u2019s Attorney General Rob Bonta<\/a> was out with a statement, reminding that his office still has a role in examining the merger, as attention has focused on the Trump Justice Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny \u2014 the California Department of Justice<\/a> has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

While the conventional wisdom is that Paramount-<\/a>Wbd will have an easier time of clearing the U.S. Justice Department, there are still state attorneys general and overseas regulators, including the European Union.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the political factor: Democrats are hammering Paramount CEO David Ellison<\/a> on his contacts with the Trump administration not just over this transaction,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paramount may have won the bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery, but the regulatory and political scrutiny is not over. Hours after Netflix announced that it would not offer a rival bid, California\u2019s Attorney General Rob Bonta was out with a statement, reminding that his office still has a role in examining the merger, as attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303667,"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-2303666","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\/2026\/02\/The-Battle-For-Warner-Bros-May-Be-Over-But-Regulatory.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303666","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=2303666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303668,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303666\/revisions\/2303668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}