{"id":3596,"date":"2026-09-23T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/paramount-will-need-to-release-way-more-movies-to-make-this-merger-work\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:26:07","slug":"paramount-will-need-to-release-way-more-movies-to-make-this-merger-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/paramount-will-need-to-release-way-more-movies-to-make-this-merger-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paramount logo\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/STKB385_PARAMOUNT_D.webp?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/998302\/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paramount has reached a settlement<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/964916\/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-states-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 states that were suing<\/a> to block its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/886478\/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-merger-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world&rsquo;s biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million more on film and TV projects produced in the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/whats-in-paramount-antitrust-settlement-cnn-film-california-1236706918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paramount says<\/a> that it will release a minimum of 30 movies annually after it absorbs WBD. On paper, these goals make it sound like Paramount is trying to ensure that the entertainment industry won&rsquo;t be harmed by its WBD acquisition. But when you look at the studios&rsquo; recent output, it seems very much like Paramount CEO Dav \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/999056\/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-annual-film-quota-guardrails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}