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$110 billion is the deal value on Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros, now halted by a US federal court.
The court granted a request for a temporary pause on the merger while a judge examines the deal's competitive impact in Hollywood. Until that review concludes, the transaction cannot close.
The court's intervention A federal judge accepted a request to freeze the deal before execution and issued the temporary halt. The order stops the merger from closing without ruling on the acquisition's legality.
It gives the court time to assess what a combined Paramount-Warner Bros entity would mean for Hollywood competition before that question becomes moot. Temporary holds in merger proceedings are procedural.
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