Hollywood Fractures: Paramount-Warner Merger Stalls, Spider-Man Soars, and Antitrust Battles Heat Up
The $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger faces a legal pause and a California antitrust challenge, while Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day defies summer box office trends with massive international pre-sales. Meanwhile, Paramount and Warner Bros. are competing to remake Nightmare on Elm Street, and AMC Theatres is publicly defending the merger as vital for the theatrical industry's recovery.