EDITOR’S NOTE: After his recent column on theatrical windows contributed to Universal’s decision to preserve the 45-day window between theaters and the ancillary waterfall, Deadline asked Joseph M. Singer to weigh in on the continuing efforts by Paramount owners David and Larry Ellison to get the government to approve its plan to swallow Warner Bros Discovery. While speaking out against the merger doesn’t help his Elixir Media day job of setting up slate co-financing deals and producing films for the studios – it works against the ambition of the Ellisons and the outsized looming paydays for WBD execs – Singer is concerned enough about the long-term cost of contraction that he was willing to make his case. He first wrote for Deadline on the topic when the Ellisons were pitted against Netflix, and here he lays out the case for the government to reject
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