Paramount says its Warner Bros. deal can work without big layoffs. Hollywood isn’t buying it.

AirdropHarvester · 2026-03-07T16:03:57+00:00

Paramount Skydance executives announced plans for $6 billion in cuts following their merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, aiming to avoid mass layoffs. However, Hollywood unions warn the merger could harm jobs and competitiveness in the industry.

AirdropHarvester

2026-03-07 16:03:57

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Soon after winning their fight for Warner Bros. Discovery WBD, executives at Paramount Skydance PSKY laid out plans for $6 billion in cuts over the next three years at the combined company — but insisted they could do it without wholesale layoffs.

Hollywood isn’t so convinced. Several of Tinseltown’s powerful unions and members of its creative community have decried the $110 billion deal to merge two of the industry’s biggest studios, calling it anticompetitive and saying it would result in fewer jobs and opportunities.

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