{"id":2304138,"date":"2026-02-28T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304138"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:00:07","slug":"wga-condemns-paramount-wbd-merger-says-outcome-is-the-same-as-netflix-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wga-condemns-paramount-wbd-merger-says-outcome-is-the-same-as-netflix-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"WGA Condemns Paramount-Wbd Merger, Says \u201cOutcome Is The Same\u201d As Netflix Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It should come as no surprise that the Writers Guild of America is not pleased about the latest development in the Warner Bros.<\/a> Discovery acquisition saga.<\/p>\n

After the news broke Thursday that Paramount<\/a> had outbid Netflix<\/a> for the legacy studio, the WGA East and West weighed in via a joint statement on Friday, once again condemning any act of corporate consolidation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe combination is different but the outcome is the same: the proposed Paramount-Warner<\/a> merger would consolidate control of two major film and television studios and streaming services, and two of the largest employers of writers,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe loss of competition would be a disaster for writers, consumers and the entire entertainment industry. This merger must be blocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is similar to the sentiment from the writers guild since Netflix first struck a deal for Warner Bros. in December, calling the move \u201cwhat antitrust laws were designed to prevent.<\/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":"

It should come as no surprise that the Writers Guild of America is not pleased about the latest development in the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition saga. After the news broke Thursday that Paramount had outbid Netflix for the legacy studio, the WGA East and West weighed in via a joint statement on Friday, once again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304139,"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-2304138","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\/WGA-Condemns-Paramount-Wbd-Merger-Says-Outcome-Is-The-Same-As.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304138","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=2304138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304140,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304138\/revisions\/2304140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}