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Sturm Und Drang At Warner Bros Amid Paramount Merger Has Insiders Wondering If The Brand Survives

A Zoom call on Wednesday with 500 senior Warner Bros staffers to discuss Paramount's settlement of the antitrust lawsuit brought by state attorneys general related to its merger with WBD did little to dissipate the gloomy, Mordor-like clouds over the Burbank lot, to use a Lord of the Rings reference.

Sturm Und Drang At Warner Bros Amid Paramount Merger Has Insiders Wondering If The Brand Survives

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A Zoom call on Wednesday with 500 senior Warner Bros staffers to discuss Paramount's settlement of the antitrust lawsuit brought by state attorneys general related to its merger with WBD did little to dissipate the gloomy, Mordor-like clouds over the Burbank lot, to use a Lord of the Rings reference.

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A Zoom call on Wednesday with 500 senior Warner Bros staffers to discuss Paramount's settlement of the antitrust lawsuit brought by state attorneys general related to its merger with WBD did little to dissipate the gloomy, Mordor-like clouds over the Burbank lot, to use a Lord of the Rings reference.

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