{
  "id": 2431770,
  "title": "Mark Ruffalo Eviscerates Ellisons’ Paramount Merger, Citing Family’s Ties to Gaza ‘Genocide’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/mark-ruffalo-eviscerates-ellisons-paramount-merger-citing-familys",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T20:03:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TheWrap",
    "slug": "thewrap",
    "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deals-ma/mark-ruffalo-david-larry-ellison-paramount-warner-merger/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Actor Mark Ruffalo criticized the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., focusing on the family ties of Larry and David Ellison, owners of Oracle. Ruffalo accused the Ellison family of profiting from systems that have contributed to the \"genocide\" in Gaza. He urged supporters to take action to stop the merger, highlighting the potential for Oracle's \"profoundly scary technologies\" to be integrated into the merged company. Ruffalo was particularly concerned about the impact on Hollywood jobs, estimating that nearly 4,500 film and TV positions could be lost in Los Angeles County. He also denounced Larry Ellison as a classic oligarch, describing the merger as a dangerous consolidation of power and wealth.",
  "summary": "\"They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance,\" the actor writes The post Mark Ruffalo Eviscerates Ellisons’ Paramount Merger, Citing Family’s Ties to Gaza ‘Genocide’ appeared first on TheWrap .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}