Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
SPOOKY SEASON IS HERE! This episode, Chris and Joe catch up on an avalanche of Hollywood news, including the Paramount WB merger and what it means moving forward. ALSO: Joe gives us the goods on the…
Joe RussoHost
Chris PriceHost
A story that we have covered recently I don't know how many hours worth on past Hollywood Hangover episodes has been the ongoing WB Paramount merging.
Where does everything stand now? Let's just do a quick, I guess, review about, you know, what has occurred and kind of what's the takeaway? What does it really mean? What are some of the things that we've discussed in previous episodes that we were worried about or now we kind of have to face and deal with as far as moving forward?
Warner Brothers is now no longer a standalone movie studio, which is kind of crazy, kind of sad.
Such a crazy movie to end on, but... a movie that is literally about the hubris of billionaires forcing their way onto the world, which is a great irony for that to be the last movie as the studio folds into a billionaire family that has literally bought their way into owning all these different movie studios.
And then on the flip side, later in this episode, we're going to be talking about the first movie this combined studio has released uh so so like what a what a whiplash between um these two movies this right but we'll get into that in a minute um what does it mean i mean look when we last spoke uh there was a chance that maybe the attorney generals of california were gonna hold off this merger and drag them the courts and the courts were gonna decide and Then all of a sudden they just kind of folded out of nowhere.
There's a lot of thoughts that maybe like Gavin Newsom and some of the other establishment Democrats really forced their hands onto the attorney general running the case.
We probably won't know for a long time why that happened, because what they did manage to extract, the quote-unquote pound of flesh that we said they would probably require to let the seal go through early, wasn't really all that fleshy.
A story that we have covered recently I don't know how many hours worth on past Hollywood Hangover episodes has been the ongoing WB Paramount merging.
Where does everything stand now? Let's just do a quick, I guess, review about, you know, what has occurred and kind of what's the takeaway? What does it really mean? What are some of the things that we've discussed in previous episodes that we were worried about or now we kind of have to face and deal with as far as moving forward?
Warner Brothers is now no longer a standalone movie studio, which is kind of crazy, kind of sad.
Such a crazy movie to end on, but... a movie that is literally about the hubris of billionaires forcing their way onto the world, which is a great irony for that to be the last movie as the studio folds into a billionaire family that has literally bought their way into owning all these different movie studios.
And then on the flip side, later in this episode, we're going to be talking about the first movie this combined studio has released uh so so like what a what a whiplash between um these two movies this right but we'll get into that in a minute um what does it mean i mean look when we last spoke uh there was a chance that maybe the attorney generals of california were gonna hold off this merger and drag them the courts and the courts were gonna decide and Then all of a sudden they just kind of folded out of nowhere.
There's a lot of thoughts that maybe like Gavin Newsom and some of the other establishment Democrats really forced their hands onto the attorney general running the case.
We probably won't know for a long time why that happened, because what they did manage to extract, the quote-unquote pound of flesh that we said they would probably require to let the seal go through early, wasn't really all that fleshy.
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