{"id":396721,"date":"2026-07-13T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396721\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:58:12","slug":"california-and-other-states-challenge-massive-paramount-warner-bros-merger-in-new-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396721\/","title":{"rendered":"California And Other States Challenge Massive Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger In New Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p class=\"topline-summary\">A coalition of 12 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, challenging the $111 billion acquisition that California Attorney General Rob Bonta claims is \u201cunlawful\u201d and could harm movie theaters and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The deal already cleared federal regulators, but now faces a challenge from a coalition of 12 states.<\/p>\n<p>Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline A coalition of 12 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the Paramount-Warner Bros.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1743,6336,14955],"class_list":["post-396721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-hollywood","tag-paramount","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}