{"id":253614,"date":"2026-07-25T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/paramount-wb-merger-gets-put-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:55:54","slug":"paramount-wb-merger-gets-put-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/paramount-wb-merger-gets-put-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount\/WB merger gets put on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Paramount and Warner Bros merger is officially on hold.<\/p>\n<p>The merger will not move forward until June 1, 2027 OR until the courts provide a ruling on the lawsuits facing the merger. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WDLiqVGUqO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WDLiqVGUqO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2080740000602189867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Follow up to this <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132591800.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post <\/a>wherein 12 states and WGA sued to stop the Paramount\/WB merger<\/p>\n<p>-Paramount&#8217;s merger of WB has officially been put on hold until June 1st, 2027&#8230;or until the courts give a ruling in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>-The company, run by pathetic cry nepo baby David Ellison, has agreed to pay Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders a fee of $650 million for every quarter that the deal does not close, beginning in October.<\/p>\n<p>-Paramount is trying to put this as a win on their part stating \u201cThis is the fastest and clearest way to prove that this transaction is good for competition, good for consumers, and good for creators,\u201d a Paramount spokeswoman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2080740000602189867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132638526.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paramount and Warner Bros merger is officially on hold. The merger will not move forward until June 1, 2027 OR until the courts provide a ruling on the lawsuits facing the merger. pic.twitter.com\/WDLiqVGUqO \u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 24, 2026 -Follow up to this post wherein 12 states and WGA sued to stop the Paramount\/WB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}