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Paramount’s Cardinale: $6B merger savings mostly won’t be layoffs

Deadline’s Dade Hayes reports that Gerry Cardinale, architect of Paramount’s imminent $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, says most of the promised $6 billion in cost savings will come from unifying tech stacks and real estate, not job cuts.

Why it matters. Hollywood labor watchers will test Cardinale’s claim against the deal’s actual headcount once the merger closes, since independent analyses and past mergers point to heavier layoffs.

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