How a Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger Could Make or Break Hollywood

Images: (Left) Warner Brothers Productions print logo that was used from 1925 to 1929. Wikimedia. Public Domain. (Right) A version of the Paramount Pictures logo as it appeared in a trade-magazine advertisement in 1915. Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Brandon Katz. Observer – September 11, 2025.

For years, whispers have percolated around a potential merger or acquisition between Warner Bros. and Paramount (now under Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance, respectively). The tenor of these conversations just rose an octave thanks to reports of the Ellison family preparing for a formal bid. Will this be legacy studios’ best and last chance of creating a real rival to Netflix and YouTube? Or is it simply another experiment that […]

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