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Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. could soon face opposition from U.S. States.<\/p>\n
As reported by Reuters<\/a>, California, New York, and other unnamed states are preparing to file a lawsuit to block the merger. Sources say the lawsuit would be filed “in the coming weeks.” <\/p>\n The lawsuit’s specific complaints are unknown at this time, though they could align with\u00a0Hollywood<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0US senators<\/a>‘ prior criticisms of the merger, which include antitrust concerns and concerns about the merger’s harmful impact on the increasingly fragile film and TV industry.<\/p>\n \n Mashable Top Stories<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Even if the lawsuit doesn’t succeed in blocking the merger entirely, it could still significantly delay the deal. The consequences of a delay wouldn’t be pretty for Paramount. If the deal isn’t closed by October, the company will have to pay shareholders a daily fee of around $6.9 million.<\/p>\n However, Paramount has been laying the political groundwork for a smoother journey to regulatory clearance. As Reuters notes, Paramount CEO David Ellison’s father, Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, has ties to President Donald Trump<\/a>. David Ellison has also been taking steps to appease the Trump administration<\/a> since the Paramount-Skydance merger, resulting in internal conflict at Paramount, as seen most recently in CBS’s firing of 60 Minutes <\/em>correspondent Scott Pelley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 mashable.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. could soon face opposition from U.S. States. As reported by Reuters, California, New York, and other unnamed states are preparing to file a lawsuit to block the merger. Sources say the lawsuit would be filed “in the coming weeks.” The lawsuit’s specific complaints are unknown at this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2448960,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paramounts-Warner-Bros-acquisition-to-face-lawsuit-from-US-States.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448959","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=2448959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448961,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448959\/revisions\/2448961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}