WGA Files for Preliminary Injunction on Paramount-WBD Merger: 'Eliminating Head-to-Head Competition'

The Writers Guild of America has filed for a preliminary injunction to pause the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger until the courts can determine whether the $110 billion deal is unlawful or not, in addition to the separate proceedings from a dozen state attorneys general. "If the transaction closes, the combined company will be the largest buyer of screenwriting services on blockbuster films in the United States, eliminating head-to-head competition between two studios that have competed against each other for talent, projects and audiences for more than a century," the WGA wrote in . . .