Mark Ruffalo Blasts Paramount-Warner Merger, Calls Out The Ellisons' Gaza Culpability

Four-time Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo has rained fire once again on the Paramount-Waner Bros. merger. This time, he is even more strident, attacking the Ellison family and their business dealings that have driven a lot of the carnage in the Gaza genocide.

“This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition,” wrote Ruffalo with the clip on his Instagram Story. “These ‘really profoundly scary technologies’ will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.”

Mark Ruffalo's Comments On Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

“There is an old saying. ‘The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.’ From one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world. Why has Trump pushed this illegal merger through? Larry Ellison will own most of ‘Para Bros’. Larry is a classic Oligarch. They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance,” he continued.

Ruffalo wrote, “We have a chance to stop this. There are 12 state Attorneys General suing to block this merger. It will be catastrophic for our film industry. There will be a loss of 4500 direct filmmaking jobs and the loss of another 10k ancillary jobs. Mergers like this are almost always bad for workers, consumers, and the industry they tend to dominate. It’s a classic antitrust case. It will hike up the cost of cable and flatten out competition. This means less choice for our audiences. It also concentrates an enormous amount of creative control to companies that say and do things like this strange woman from Oracle. Really profoundly scary people.”

Paramount's Response To Mark Ruffalo's Attack

A spokesperson for the David Ellison-led company was quoted by Variety as stating that it was “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”

Paramount rep exhorted for " a moment to lower the temperature, not raise it. We’d rather build than further engage in such rhetoric. This simply exposes the true motivation of some who have advocated opposition to this transaction. On the other hand, our commitment to great content is matched by our commitment to acceptance – to every story, every storyteller, and no blacklists, no exceptions, for anyone.”