A planned Monday meeting between David Ellison’s Paramount and California state officials, designed to kick off settlement talks over the state’s lawsuit to block the entertainment company’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, has been called off at the last moment, California attorney general Rob Bonta said. He is one of a group of state attorneys general that have taken aim at the planned mega-merger. “Not only did Paramount leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented these discussions, demonstrating a lack of good faith,” Bonta said in a statement, first reported by The New York Times….
