Hollywood Continues to Crack: Paramount May Be the Final Departure l Alexis Minute

Hollywood Continues to Crack: Paramount May Be the Final Departure l Alexis Minute

Hollywood’s slow breakup continues. Paramount — the last major movie studio still based in Hollywood proper — is now considering leaving California as the entertainment industry keeps shifting away from its historic center.The immediate Paramount dispute involves its proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, but the bigger story goes far beyond one merger battle.

Los Angeles has lost productions, entertainment jobs and support businesses, while competing states and countries continue pulling film and television work away from California.In this Alexis Minute, we look at what Hollywood once represented, what changed after COVID, why production has continued moving elsewhere, and why a Paramount departure would be one of the most symbolic cracks yet in the Hollywood that built the modern movie business.

Paramount has not left California — yet. But the fact that Hollywood’s final major studio is seriously considering it tells its own story.


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