International Cinema Union Criticizes Europe’s Approval of Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: ‘It Has Based Its Decision on Too Narrow a Scope’

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The International Union of Cinemas has criticized the European Commission’s approval of the Paramount-Warner Bros merger, saying the decision was based on “too narrow a scope.”

The union, known as UNIC, represents the European theater trade, including cinema associations and operators, across 39 territories.

While UNIC welcomed the EC’s requirement for Paramount to cancel film distribution partnership with Universal in Europe in the next 13 months, its CEO Laura Houlgatte said “we strongly believe that the Commission could and should have gone further with its conditions for the merger’s approval.”

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