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Paramount’s $81 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery was approved by the European Union on Wednesday after the companies offered concessions. In order to ease regulators’ concerns, Paramount offered commitments including that it would terminate its stake in United International Pictures in the European Economic Area within 13 months from the deal’s closing.
Federal judge pauses the merger as states seek an antitrust trial that could extend into next April.
Most large mergers do not die in a courtroom. They die of exhaustion. The lawyers stay expensive. The financing goes stale. The executives who staked their reputations on the thing start quietly updating their contact lists, and one morning somebody runs the numbers and decides the prize is no ...
Federal judge pauses merger pending antitrust reviewThe proposed merger between Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ:PSKY) and Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) has encountered a significant legal hurdle after a US federal judge temporarily halted the transaction, casting uncertainty over a deal valued at approximately $100 billion.
(Bloomberg) -- Paramount Skydance Corp. was on the brink of closing its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Now the companies are facing a legal hurdle that risks putting the deal on hold for months at a cost that could quickly climb to billions of dollars. Most Read from BloombergSaudi-Led Coalition in Yemen Vows to Protect Ships From HouthisUS Strikes Iran in Escalating Campaign After Troops KilledIran Says Mediators Stepping In After Days of US ClashesMoonshot’s K
On July 20, 2026, a California federal judge halted the $110 billion acquisition for at least 14 days, extending legal uncertainty around the merger.
CNN Media Analyst Sara Fischer reacts to the decision.
A federal judge imposed a 14-day pause, with an Aug. 3 hearing set to review the merger challenge.
The ruling comes after a coalition of 12 states sued to block the deal, arguing it would harm consumers and the entertainment industry.
Last week, a coalition of 12 attorneys general filed a lawsuit that challenges the $110 billion acquisition, arguing that the deal.
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín’s Monday ruling puts the deal on hold for two weeks while she considers a broader antitrust legal challenge brought by a coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California AG Rob Bonta.
A federal judge has paused Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery in response to a lawsuit last week from a dozen state attorneys general looking to block the deal on antitrust grounds.
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Paramount from completing its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in court. Twelve states, led by California, sued to block Paramount’s pending buyout of Warner last week— alleging that such a combination would “extinguish competition” in Hollywood and lead to fewer choices for consumers, particularly moviegoers and cable customers across the U.S. The states’ top prosecutors called on Warner and Paramount to not close the transaction until after a court had time to “fully evaluate” their claims.
A 14-day restraining order halts a deal that would combine two of Hollywood's five major film studios and cable programmers
The 14-day restraining order prohibits the companies from closing the deal as a dozen states challenge it.
By Jody Godoy and Dawn Chmielewski July 20 (Reuters) - A coalition of states led by California won a pause of Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
AEW CEO Tony Khan explains to Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi why Paramount's move to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery could be a major boost for AEW, and how the combined streaming footprint could put AEW in more homes and expand its live-event business.
A coalition of 12 U. S. states has launched an antitrust challenge against the proposed $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros.
Analysts say Netflix is losing control of its own story, and a single line buried in Friday's earnings report about future disclosures is making Wall Street more nervous than the guidance miss itself.
A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California, has filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed Paramount, Skydance, and Warner Bros. Discovery (NasdaqGS:WBD) merger valued at about US$110b. The states have also submitted emergency motions seeking a temporary restraining order, prompting immediate court hearings and a likely pause to the transaction. The filings allege threats to competition and consumer harm, as well as concerns about market concentration and special...
The states seek an injunction that could delay the acquisition for months as a federal court weighs their antitrust challenge.
New lawsuit joins states' challenge, raising uncertainty around the proposed media merger's closing timeline.
A 12-state antitrust lawsuit threatens to delay Paramount Skydance's $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, exposing both companies' weak balance sheets to costly penalty deadlines.
The primary reason for the 12-state lawsuit is that a Paramount-WBD combination would curb entertainment content and distribution, putting the TV/movie marketplace into fewer hands. What's the fallout?
Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. faces antitrust lawsuits, putting $30B in investment and 100M SF in limbo.
The Writers Guild of America became the latest group to challenge Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit that seeks to block the merger on the grounds it would cause “specific harm” to movie and TV writers working across the U.S. A Paramount-Warner merger “threatens the economic and creative health of the American entertainment industry,” reads Tuesday's federal complaint, which was filed by both the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East (jointly the WGA). “This proposed combined entity would be the largest employer of writers, with tremendous power to suppress our wages, eliminate opportunities for emerging writers, cut jobs across the industry, and produce less programming," WGAE President Tom Fontana said in a statement.
Move by Writers Guild of America comes a day after 12 Democratic-led states sued to stop the merger on antitrust grounds.
(Updates with Paramount's comments in the third and fourth paragraphs.) Paramount Skydance's (PSK
The antitrust lawsuit could delay the merger after federal approval and before Europe's July 22 decision.
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