{
  "id": 8264385,
  "title": "Those Across The Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Aren’t Considering The Impact On The Independent Business — Guest Column",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/those-across-the-paramount-warner-bros-deal-arent-considering-the",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-18T14:55:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/09/paramount-warner-bros-deal-not-considering-independents-1237107363/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Editor’s note: AGC CEO and chairman Stuart Ford, a veteran of the independent film scene, trained as a lawyer before working for Miramax and then running IM Global and AGC, which has a busy slate of film and TV projects. Here, he considers how the independent business could be impacted by the Paramount-WBD deal and […]",
  "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."
}