Ari Emanuel, executive chairman of William Morris Endeavor (WME), has endorsed the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.
Emanuel expressed his thoughts about the merger in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal where he said that the current antitrust lawsuits filed by state attorneys general miss the mark.
“When government officials manipulate markets to reach political outcomes, antitrust stops protecting competition and starts threatening it,” Emanuel writes. “The attorneys general should drop this case and get back to enforcing the laws as they are written. Let Hollywood creatives get back to trying to rip each other’s heads off at the box office, in streaming, online and everywhere else we compete. It’s what...
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