www.indiewire.com: Hollywood spent much of the past year fighting over whether Paramount should be allowed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, after a sprawling regulatory battle, the $110 billion deal is approaching its final act — and the debate over whether it will save Hollywood or shrink it isn’t going anywhere.
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I’ve been trying to follow along with the Paramount and Warner Brothers merger with these articles because this issue has insanely large ramifications for what Hollywood will look like in the coming years. The main concern that I have with this merger that this article highlights is the shrinkage of voices available in the Hollywood scene. While Paramount does say this merger will provide more jobs because they will have the resources to create more productions per year, there is now one less buyer for writers trying to film their work, and one less employer for actors, designers and other film professionals. If the majority of jobs come from one organization, then where do you go after you get a no from them? I also want to keep following this story to hear how the actors and artists who openly opposed the merger are faring, as some of these artists believed they might have a rocky relationship with Paramount after this merger is complete. While the company promises there will be no “consequences,” I really hope that this will actually be the case.
I have been following along with every WB and Paramount merger article since I saw them and I thought this article was really interesting because it looks at the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger from a different angle than some of the other articles I’ve read about it. The article points out that people like Tom Cruise and James Cameron can be more optimistic because they are already established enough to have more control over their careers. That made me think about all the people behind the scenes who do not have that same security. This connects to my other posts about the merger because I keep coming back to the same question: what happens to everyone who is not a famous actor or director? Cost cutting and consolidation might look good from the top, but for crew members, writers, designers, and other workers, it could mean fewer opportunities. I think that is something that gets overlooked when people talk about the “future of Hollywood.”
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