Mark Ruffalo Slams Paramount-Warner Bros Merger: “Bad Deal For This Country
Mark Ruffalo has been one of the fiercest critics of the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery merger and after the deal became a reality today, the man who plays the Incredible Hulk in the MCU came out swinging.
“This merger will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs — it is a bad deal for this country and should never have been approved,” the two-time Emmy winner and HBO regular said today after U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed off on the antitrust settlement between te David Ellison run company and a dozen state Attorneys General.
“This is an incredibly disappointing outcome for the hundreds of thousands of us who stood up to block it, but it’s also not the end.”
In a post, retweeting Deadline’s story on the approval,” Ruffalo added: “This grassroots movement isn’t going to fade away and neither is our resolve. This was never about just one merger: this was about fighting back against corrupt oligarch billionaires trampling the interests of everyday people to line their own pockets. We’re still in that fight. Join us.”
A close ally of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in rallying against the melding of the two historic Hollywood companies, and a very public advocate that California AG Rob Bonta “not cave” on the antitrust front, Ruffalo has also faced accusations of antisemitism for his critical remarks about weapons the Larry Ellison-founded Oracle provided to the Israeli military.
