David Ellison’s Paramount-Warner Bros studio can’t get out of Hollywood fast enough.
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"A Pompeii resident looking out his window at Mount Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. 79 would have noticed something was amiss from the black smoke emanating out the top. He might have fled the city before it got destroyed, salvaging what he could. Movie mogul David Ellison has been observing the virtual darkness menacing Hollywood, and is taking steps to rebuild elsewhere.
"Entertainment industry luminaries are going berserk over the looming Ellison merger of Paramount and Warner Bros studios. As usual with them, for all the wrong reasons. They warn about the resultant reduced production, fewer jobs, less competition (four major studios instead of five), and that Ellison may move the entire conglomerate out of Los Angeles. Which some astute insiders see as a good thing, given what the recent studio regimes and political leaders have done to the physical location and its workers.
"'If Paramount — Warner Bros. leaves L.A., it’ll be game over for Hollywood,” declared TV-film director Joseph Kahn in a scorching Hollywood Reporter column last week. When you’ve lost The Hollywood Reporter, you should know the end is nigh. But because you’re in the entertainment industry, you probably can’t read the signs, since you understand nothing outside your business.
"In fact, you don’t understand your business, or you wouldn’t have spent the last twenty years helping to wreck it. You’re likely a diversity hire replacement for men who knew the tenuous link between the economics, politics, and art of the trade. And you can do nothing other than rage and ruin until your own job disappears.
“The writers and actors warning you about consolidation do not live in the world,” wrote Kahn. “If they did, they would understand that nobody spends $110 billion to make less of anything. Corporations don’t merge to shrink. They merge to shove product into every screen, format, territory, and Botox hole available.” . . .
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