DGA, IATSE call for Paramount-Warner settlement with a long list of conditions
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Set us as preferred Citing Hollywood’s already struggling production economy, two influential industry unions have jointly called on Paramount Skydance Chairman David Ellison and California Atty.Gen.
Rob Bonta to settle their antitrust fight.The Directors Guild of America and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — which represent a combined 200,000 union members — are turning up the political pressure to try to resolve the clash over the Paramount-Warner Bros.merger, which has already carved deep divisions throughout the industry.
The DGA and IATSE’s unusual missive comes as Paramount has been trying to drum up support for the deal and while development projects reportedly are being put on hold.Paramount executives and others have decried the delay in deciding whether the deal moves forward.
Bonta and Paramount are now poised to slug it out in an Oakland courtroom next spring.“Our collective members are concerned about their futures, and the future of the industry,” DGA Executive Director Russell Hollander and IATSE President Matthew D.
Loeb wrote Thursday in their three-page letter to Ellison and Bonta.“We are aware of productions that have been put on hold or canceled altogether, leading to further reductions in available work for our members and other industry workers,” the letter reads in part.The effort adds heat to a growing campaign urging Bonta to bend in his fight to block the industry- reshaping deal that would combine the Warner Bros.and Paramount film and television studios, HBO, CBS, CNN, HGTV and Comedy Central.
Earlier this week, California’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Xavier Becerra, said he favored a settlement.Republican Steve Hilton has decried the antitrust lawsuit as being politically motivated.
Gov.Gavin Newsom, who leaves office next year, has stayed abo...