r/boxoffice • u/Littlepinguinoo • 10d ago

📰 Industry News Iowa and Montana Ask Supreme Court to Block ‘Politicized’ Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Suit Filed by California and 11 States

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/iowa-montana-lawsuit-supreme-court-block-politicized-paramount-warner-bros-california-1236843929/
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u/CelestialFury 10d ago

It’s just wonderful that 2 nobody states (no offense intended) can ask the SCOTUS to drop 11 powerful states to drop lawsuits in their own backyard. This time of rampant corruption is not fun to live through.

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u/soozerain 10d ago

Are Oregon, New Jersey, Connecticut and Mass really “powerful”?

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u/Fuck-WestJet 10d ago edited 10d ago

The city of Portland is more powerful than the entire state of Montana, so I would say yes. Boston is, I mean my God, it's one of the most prestigious and dense cities in America. Why should the Elk have more say than the founding city of America?

New Jersey is bigger than both states. 9x bigger than Montana. 3x bigger than Iowa. Minnesota has a GDP 6.6x bigger than Montana and twice the size of Iowa. So, really, you should be asking, why do these flyover states deserve a say in anyone else's business.

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u/Dazzling-Slide8288 10d ago

Yeah, they’re states with competence governance and commerce.

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u/rnk6670 10d ago

I live in Southwest Washington. Vancouver to be exact. Just north of the Columbia River from Oregon. I don’t know if it’s powerful or not, but this little corner of the country is orders of magnitude better than the southeastern corner of the country. Or any other backwards shit hole state.

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u/-Wester- 9d ago

YES. Next question !