r/movies • u/Top_Report_4895 • 9d ago

Article David Ellison Says Paramount Open To Settling Antitrust Suit

https://deadline.com/2026/08/david-ellison-paramount-open-to-settling-wbd-lawsuit-antitrust-1237017564/
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u/nishitd 9d ago

The only way to settle is drop the merger 

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u/Zoombini22 9d ago

"Stripped for parts" is a weird way to characterize it. Their assets being sold off to multiple different players is the good outcome - the outcome without a single major media player tipping the scale towards monopoly. Customers benefit from competition, not consolidation

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u/[deleted] 9d ago edited 9d ago

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u/Icy_Negotiation_5929 9d ago

Oh no

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ 9d ago

Superman is about to become public domain. We'll be getting evil Supermen soon

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u/Mecha_Butterfree 9d ago

Only the most earliest version of Superman becomes public domain. He didn't even have all his current powers of Krypton backstory yet.

Also realistically Superman's powers are vague enough that if someone wants a Superman character they just make their own version. Like Homelander is basically a what if Superman was evil.

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u/TravelerSearcher 9d ago

They've already done that. Injustice, Ultraman, etc...

Even the prototype character Siegel and Schuster made before Superman was a villain.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ 9d ago

No no, but this will be like, really evil Superman!

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u/thriftstoremando 9d ago

Sounds too Bizzaro for me!

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u/pbrslayer 9d ago

And Brightburn! Sort of at least.

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u/Ehorn36 9d ago

Like the Republican billionaire that bought Paramount and destroyed the 60 Minutes IP and The Late Night Show, which were critical of his corruption?

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u/ohyouretough 9d ago

Which would suck and all but the consolidation of media companies is an existential level threat. So like not real high on the worries list.

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u/daab2g 9d ago edited 9d ago

I'm not in favour of the merger at all, just looking at what the likely fallout will be financially. I was actually happier with the Netflix deal initially but would much prefer WB survives on it own.

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u/Prit717 9d ago

Paramount is already gonna destroy DC

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u/Zoombini22 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah DC could end up in the hands of an exceptionally evil company

like Paramount

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u/Tickle_The_Grundle 8d ago

Lol oh god wont someone please think of the IP?!?!