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Mark Ruffalo has been one of the fiercest critics of the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger, and after the deal became a reality Wednesday, the man who plays the Incredible Hulk in the MCU came out swinging. “This merger will stifle creativity, weaken free speech and cost…

An Ohio jury has returned multiple guilty verdicts against former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn in the February murder of his wife Ashley Flynn. Caleb Flynn, a 40-year-old former worship pastor who competed on American Idol in 2013, sobbed after nine guilty verdicts were read finding him…

Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, plus a dozen blue states, want Cory Booker to stay in his own lane when it comes to the antitrust settlement over the companies’ $111 billion mega-merger. “The fact that a proposed consent decree does not contain every outcome that one party may have wanted…

“The Attorney General for the lead Plaintiff State, California, publicly criticized the very behavioral remedies that the parties now ask the Court to approve,”exclaims an amicus brief just filed in federal court by the Block the Merger coalition to take one last swing at stopping the antitrust…

EXCLUSIVE: An end-of-week memo from Disney’s Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer has given a blunt warning that layoffs are coming amid a “transformation process” that includes “automating certain workflows by leveraging the latest technologies.” Without actually saying that AI is taking over…

Reporters from CNN aren’t allowed access to the White House’s state dinner or guest arrivals Thursday, but the news outlet’s soon-to-be owner will be breaking bread with China’s president Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, along with a gaggle of tech bosses. Striving to get a settlement in Paramount’s…

Although David Ellison has given a lot of money to Democrats over the years, the Paramount CEO is probably not donating a dime to Sen. Cory Booker’s next campaign. The much disparaged state Attorneys General-negotiated settlement in Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery…

Mere hours before a court hearing on the much criticized settlement between Paramount and a coalition of blue state attorneys general on the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery, ParaBros foes have gained a victory that could see an expensive delay on the deal closing. “The Court…

“Cultural change happens a long time before political and legal change does,” cautioned CAA’s Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel Tammy Brandt on the realities of AI. As OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amoedi speak to the United Nations today about the risks and…

Just days before the lawsuit was settled, the attorneys talked about the impact the litigation had on other transactions — and the talk it has generated about the future of Hollywood. Courtney Braun, chief legal officer for WME Group, said that the focus on the massive transaction has triggered…

More than six years after the much accused Harvey Weinstein was first convicted on sex-crime charges in New York City, an Empire State judge on Wednesday sentenced the Pulp Fiction producer to 15 years behind bars. Following a morning of arguments and pitches from both defense lawyers and the…

UPDATED: Donald Trump again lashed out at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, just as the Justice Department is defending the president’s ban on the network, MS Now and Politico from the White House. Late on Tuesday, on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “All of the SLEAZEBAGS, like Third Rate ‘Reporter,’ Kaitlan…