{"id":466275,"date":"2026-09-17T02:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466275\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:42:30","slug":"paramount-deadly-serious-about-leaving-ca-amid-merger-fight-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466275\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount &#8216;Deadly Serious&#8217; About Leaving CA Amid Merger Fight: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount has rejected the states&#8217; antitrust arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison previously told senior executives he was prepared to move the combined studio business out of California if Bonta and the other attorneys general did not reach a settlement, with a possible move beginning as early as Oct. 1, according to reports in August.<\/p>\n<p>Bonta responded at the time by accusing Paramount of attempting to &#8220;blackmail&#8221; California into allowing the deal to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides are now scheduled to participate in court-ordered settlement talks Oct. 14 and 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2026-09-16\/paramount-atty-gen-bonta-ordered-to-meet-for-merger-settlement-talks?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.<\/a> A trial over the states&#8217; antitrust challenge is scheduled for March 2.<\/p>\n<p>A Paramount departure could carry significant economic consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount has rejected the states&#8217; antitrust arguments. Ellison previously told senior executives he was prepared to move the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-466275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466275","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=466275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}