Mark Ruffalo Blasts Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger at Senate Hearing: ‘Don’t Trust Empty Promises from Billionaires’

By Todd Spangler

Todd Spangler

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Mark Ruffalo warned of “devastating” effects on film, TV and the news media if Paramount Skydance completes its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Ruffalo, who is among the 2,000-plus Hollywood signatories of an open letter seeking to block the deal, spoke Wednesday via videoconference at a hearing called by Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. Booker noted that none of his Republican Senate colleagues were in attendance.

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