Paramount’s WBD Pitch Hinged on a Five-Year Film Pledge — and Hollywood Is Still Watching
Paramount CEO David Ellison won a key antitrust settlement by promising to preserve theatrical release commitments, but the deal’s durability is now under scrutiny. The central question for Hollywood and regulators is what happens when the five-year agreement expires, and whether the studio’s assurances can outlast the merger logic that produced them.
