"Thousands of layoffs" anticipated under terms of $111 billion Warner Bros./Paramount deal

Now that it looks like Paramount (which is to say, Skydance’s David Ellison) really is going to come out at as the winner in the ongoing feeding frenzy to guzzle down rival studio Warner Bros. Discovery, it feels worth going into the publicly available terms of the deal now on the table for the acquisition. That most especially includes the question “Hey, who’s going to get royally screwed by all this?” the answer to which seems—shock of shocks—to be “the employees, duh,” as various outlets have...