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Benedict Cumberbatch has co-authored an op-ed with Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong in which the actors argue that Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery should be blocked in the UK. In The Guardian article, headlined ‘A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop […]
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Benedict Cumberbatch has co-authored an op-ed with Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong in which the actors argue that Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery should be blocked in the UK. In The Guardian article, headlined ‘A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop […]
Read this report"Actors are often told to stay out of legal arguments... But we have spent our lives on enough U.K. sets, worked alongside enough U.K. crews [...] to know that this is not someone else’s argument. It is ours."
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Benedict Cumberbatch Says Paramount-Warner Deal Is A “Calamity” That Must Be Blocked.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Hollywood Reporter (Jul 27, 2026, 08:20 UTC); the most recent came from Deadline (Jul 27, 2026, 08:32 UTC).
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