After all of that sound and fury, that’s it? “I don’t think these two companies should merge,” said California attorney general Rob Bonta in unveiling a “significant” settlement with David Ellison to allow the mogul to do just that with Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount’s C-suite must have been popping bottles of champagne as the press office engines of the major studio and 12 state attorney generals typed up the settlement term boilerplate language of what ended up being a stern finger-wave to Ellison’s team. When Bonta held his presser on Monday he made a point to note multiple times that he personally was not in favor of…
