Mark Ruffalo says Paramount merger will kill jobs and free speech

Actor Mark Ruffalo blasted the outcome of the long-running fight over Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after a federal judge cleared the Hollywood megadeal to move forward Wednesday. Ruffalo, who had been one of the most vocal Hollywood opponents of the merger, called the outcome "incredibly disappointing." "This merger will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs – it is a bad deal for this country and should never have been approved," Ruffalo wrote in a post on X. "This is an incredibly disappointing outcome for the hundreds of thousands of us who stood up to block it, but it's also not the end," he continued. "This grassroots movement isn't going to fade away and neither is our resolve.