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Would David Ellison Really Pull Paramount Out of California if the State Tries to Block Warner Bros. Merger?

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Would David Ellison Really Pull Paramount Out of California if the State Tries to Block Warner Bros. Merger?
Jul 13, 2026 7:17am PT Would David Ellison Really Pull Paramount Out of California if the State Tries to Block Warner Bros. Merger?

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xpangler See All David Ellison at Netflix's "America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys" at The Egyptian Theatre on August 11, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Gilbert Flores/Variety

Is David Ellison considering a nuclear option of relocating Paramount’s headquarters from California — and potentially diverting billions of production dollars from the Golden State — if California Attorney General Rob Bonta files an expected challenge to the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal?

That was the suggestion in an anonymously sourced item published by Semafor on Sunday, which said that Ellison’s “friends and advisers” have been “pushing the media executive to consider shifting his business out of the state.” The report cautioned that Paramount has made no decisions on this front and that such talk “may just be a show of brinkmanship.”

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