Court approval binds Paramount's $111 billion Warner deal to at least 156 theatrical films over five years
Paramount's settlement with 12 states won court approval on Sept. 30, clearing the last legal hurdle to its roughly $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal. The states' price is a consent decree adding at least $300 million a year of US film production spending, about 0.27% of the deal's value.
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Paramount's Warner settlement sets a $30 million price on every film below 30 a year
Paramount settled the 12-state antitrust suit over Warner Bros. Discovery by pledging 30 films a year for five years, at $30 million per film it misses. Against a $6 billion synergy target, the bar on bundling CNN and HBO in cable talks looks like the harder limit.
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California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say features built to extend teen sessions are the defect. A court has already dismissed Meta's Section 230 appeal in the case.
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A federal jury in Oakland is hearing that Meta built addictive products for children. After a $6m bellwether loss, retention design now sits in the same risk register as privacy.
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The fixed $12.7 billion works out to roughly two days of Meta's revenue a year, while the contingent tranche, worth about nine days of sales, only gets paid if three competitors decline to restrict teens the way Meta now must.
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