Little over a month has passed since the deal to merge Paramount Global and David Ellison's Skydance Media officially closed, yet already we're hearing news about plans for an even bigger merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Combining two of the biggest companies in the entertainment industry would change Hollywood forever ... and almost certainly not in a good way.

Based on the history of giant corporate mergers in the past, even the realistic best case scenario for a WB-Paramount merger is going to have severe collateral damage. In the worst case scenario, it wrecks the mainstream movie and TV business forever — and in light of some of Ellison's stated business priorities and the controversial actions which Paramount took to get its most recent merger approved, there's r

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