Paramount CEO David Ellison told California lawmakers his commitment to keep Par and Warner Bros. separate and to produce a combined 30 films a year if they merge will help support sustained job creation across the film and creative industries.
In a letter to Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman obtained by Deadline, he said a combined company will continue licensing content to its own and third-party platforms while remaining active buyers of content from third-party studios and independent producers. It will operate HBO independently. It will preserve the full theatrical and home video windows. The promises, which he has previously stated publicly, “will help preserve good jobs and expand opportunities for workers in California and in the United States.”
“Every one of these commitments is measurable, objective and verifiable,” he wrote in response to queries by the lawmakers around jobs, AI, competition, and working in
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