Benedict Cumberbatch has co-authored an op-ed with Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong in which the actors argue that Paramount‘s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery should be blocked in the UK.
In The Guardian article, headlined ‘A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that,’ the actors called on Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to intervene in the $111 billion merger for the good of the British screen industry.
It follows Nandy telling UK Parliament that she is “minded to intervene” in the takeover, but she is yet to
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