WGA Slams David Ellison’s Plan to Pull Paramount From California: ‘This Type of Behavior Is Precisely Why the Merger Should Be Blocked’

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The Writers Guild of America has fired back at Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison after he threatened to start pulling Paramount out of California on Oct. 1 if California AG Rob Bonta refused to come to the bargaining table and settle the antitrust suit to stop the studio’s acquisition of Warner Bros.

“By threatening to leave the state because it doesn’t want the government to enforce the law, Paramount further proves the danger of its outsized power over the industry and what that will mean for writers and the creative community,” the WGA told Variety in a statement. “This type of behavior is precisely why the merger should be blocked.”

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