Warner Bros shareholders approve Paramount’s $111bn takeover
The approval came as Donald Trump is to attend a dinner with billionaire Paramount backers the Ellisons.
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The Saudis are pouring $24 billion into the Ellisons’ Warner Bros. megamerger — and that’s just the latest move in a Hollywood takeover that’s really about courting Trump, buying Washington influence and giving a restless young population bread and circuses instead of human rights.
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In his first sit-down interview, provocateur R.J. Cipriani lays out his $150 million case against studio president Jeff Shell, the Ellisons and a Hollywood establishment he claims is running scared: “I’m a master of cognitive warfare.”
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