Ari Emanuel Backs Paramount-WBD Deal In WSJ Op-Ed, Blasts States’ Antitrust Lawsuit As “Trash”

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Ari Emanuel is throwing his weight behind Paramount‘s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, blasting the antitrust lawsuit against it as “trash” in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

From the headline arguing the merger “could save Hollywood” to its coda urging government regulators to let creatives “get back to trying to rip each other’s heads off,” the piece is a strong endorsement at a key moment. Once widely considered a cinch to close over the summer, the deal has been put into limbo by the suit by 12 state attorneys general. After clear signs that a

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