Ep 532 New Kratos, James Gunn out at DC, Wonder Man cancelled and more

Josh, first things first, Paramount, all right, they are not tapping out of this just yet, all right? Of obviously we've talked about this, and I believe it's by October they're gonna need to start paying, um, Warner Brothers about, what is it, like 7, $7 billion every single day until the deal is, uh, basically shut and closed.

But, you know, the state said, "Hey, we are opposed to this whole Paramount and Warner Brothers merger," which that's another crazy thing.

I think Hollywood's kinda splitting up into this thing where it's like pro-, uh, W-, uh, BD Paramount merger, or, like, a not on that side or against it.

They're, you know...

You have the two aisles, which is kind of getting, you know...

It, it's a little weird for me because I'm just like-

Yeah

... hey, like, why, why are we, you know, why are we fighting? Uh, Cinemark seems to be putting their line in the sand.

They're, they're a team that is basically, you know, they're the movie theater team that are supporting this whole Paramount merger a- a- after Ellison basically put out a note saying, "Hey, we promise to be putting out 30 movies a year." Um, so that's basically, you know...

They're, they're getting backup from some of the movie theaters, so that's pretty good.

Uh, but at least, Josh, what do we think about Paramount basically floating the bill to the states now and basically telling them, "Hey, you guys need to pitch in on this whole...

If you guys have a problem with our merger that doesn't have anything legally," but possibly that this is basically what they're saying in their, in their little letter, is that basically it's a your guys' problem.

You guys think it's a legal problem, but it's not.

It's a more personal problem and a personal preference on where you guys think, which we kind of dug into that a little bit.

Obviously Ellison has, you know, been on this side of, like, restructuring CNN and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

A lot of people are thinking that he's doing some back dealings with Donald Trump, so that's kind of interesting.

But Josh, they're asking to, to, you know, for the states to help pay for this little, like, limbo time, the 7, you know, the $7 billion ticket every single day until this deal closes.

I mean, does Paramount have a little bit of a right to ask for some of this?

I don't think so.

I...

It sounds kind of delusional.

Um, I mean, they're the ones that don't want you to go through with it.

Why would they help you post that out when they're probably gonna be like, "No," in the first place, and just pay them out? I think that's the thing.

I think that's kinda what everyone's kinda hoping for, that they lose the deal, they end up paying them out, and that's it.

But I d- I think that's delusional.