{
  "id": 383624,
  "title": "David Ellison Is Promising Theater Owners Contractual Guarantees for Paramount-Warner Bros. 30-Film Annual Slate. But What if Moviegoers Don’t Care?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/david-ellison-is-promising-theater-owners-contractual-guarantees-for",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-09T13:49:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-ellison-theater-owners-guarantee-30-movies-paramount-warner-bros-merger-1236830791/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "There’s no question that David Ellison, the doggedly ambitious CEO of Paramount Skydance, loves movies and filmmaking. In making his case for Paramount’s eye-poppingly pricey megadeal to merge with Warner Bros., he has repeatedly pledged that the combined company will release a lot more movies — to the tune of at least 30 titles per […]",
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}