Noah Wyle Warns Ellison Against Taking Hollywood Out of Hollywood as Paramount Eyes the Exit

Will David Ellison Say Goodbye to Hollywood? Some See Paramount’s Potential Exit From California as ‘Strategically Unwise’ — but Others Say It’s Just Smart Business

David Ellison, we have been told, loves Hollywood. He loves movies. In trying to rally industry support behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, he has claimed the combined studios will release an unprecedented 30-plus films a year. Waving the banner for the entertainment industry in his home state, Ellison also has been lobbying for bipartisan federal […]

Noah Wyle warns Ellison against taking Hollywood out of Hollywood as Paramount eyes the exit

Every argument about where movies get made eventually collides with a question no balance sheet can price: whether Hollywood is a set of soundstages that can be trucked to a cheaper state, or a place whose name is the product. David Ellison’s warning that he could pull Paramount out of California treats it as the former — a line item worth roughly half a billion dollars a year. Noah Wyle, answering as both a working actor and a lifelong Angeleno…