{"id":460851,"date":"2026-09-11T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:52:08","slug":"paramount-settlement-talks-with-california-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460851\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Settlement Talks With California Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount_1\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a> and California Attorney General Rob Bonta will sit down for two straight days at the end of October to explore a deal settling the state\u2019s lawsuit challenging the studio\u2019s $111 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tU.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson told both sides on Friday to tell him the specific dates for the settlement conference by next Tuesday. The directive was issued after a hearing to schedule the talks, which will include the Writers Guild of America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLawyers for Paramount and California are \u201cordered to meet and confer regarding scheduling\u201d and inform his clerk \u201cby close of business 9\/15\/2026 regarding the two consecutive days in the end of October that work for an in-person settlement conference beginning at 10:00 AM,\u201d reads the note. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe meeting will be introductory, meaning there\u2019s no guarantee it\u2019ll be substantive. Still, it could move the needle on resolving the case before a trial next year as both sides seemingly refuse to budge on their positions relating to what a settlement could look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBonta has maintained he\u2019ll only accept structural remedies, which typically involve companies selling off parts of the combined business. So far, Paramount has only offered behavioral concessions, including a pledge to release at least 30 movies with 45-day theatrical windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMovement on settlement talks have been slow to nonexistent. Bonta last month canceled a meeting with Paramount scheduled for the following day, accusing the studio\u2019s representatives of acting in bad faith by leaking and misrepresenting details of a recent meeting they held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAt the time, Paramount denied the accusations and said the studio didn\u2019t share confidential information. It stressed that it\u2019s prepared to enter deal discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe settlement conference will take place nearly a month after the so-called $7 million-per-day ticking fee starts accruing. Paramount has threatened to leave California, with Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Xavier Becerra expressing a preference to settle the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount and California Attorney General Rob Bonta will sit down for two straight days at the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6336],"class_list":["post-460851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460851","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=460851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}