{
  "id": 2424987,
  "title": "Mark Ruffalo Goes Scorched-Earth on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Calling Out the Ellison Family’s Complicity in Palestinian ‘Genocide’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/mark-ruffalo-goes-scorched-earth-on-paramount-warner-bros-merger",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T19:04:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mark-ruffalo-paramount-warner-bros-merger-david-ellison-1236840301/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Mark Ruffalo is not staying quiet. The Oscar-nominated actor and activist, who’s currently starring in the box-office smash “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” sounded off on his Instagram Story Friday about Paramount Skydance’s pending $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger, which is currently being challenged by a dozen state attorney generals, including in […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}