Michele Mulroney doubled down on the guild’s statement amid news that Paramount launched a hostile takeover bid to combat the WBD-Netflix mega-deal.
WGA West president Michele Mulroney doubled down on the guild’s statement amid the news that Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover bid to combat the Warner Bros. Discovery-Netflix mega-deal.
As Mulroney shared on the “Ankler Agenda” Monday, the Writers Guild doesn’t think either Netflix or Paramount will be good for the industry and that they’ve refused to take a side in the bidding war.
“There is no preferred winner,” Mulroney said. “Our belief here is that whoever wins, writers lose. There are problems with both of those acquisitions. So yeah, this is not buyer specific. This is us looking at this as a massive antirust issue where we believe the government really needs to step in.”
She continued: “This potential merge is going to not just hurt all industry workers but consumers who always inevitably end up paying the cost for these mergers.
