TEST First Take 7/22/26

TEST First Take 7/22/26

Plus: Everything to know about the Paramount-Warner ticking fee, Pixar hit hard in Disney layoffs and more

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1. Creator Cooking Shows Are Heating Up Online — and Netflix Is Buying

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2. Paramount-Warner Bros. Ticking Fee: Everything You Need to Know About the M&A Time Bomb

3. Pixar Hit Hard in Disney Layoffs, 150 Staffers Cut

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4. WGA Files for Preliminary Injunction on Paramount-WBD Merger: 'Eliminating Head-to-Head Competition'

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5. Sony, Alamo Drafthouse in Talks to Reopen Cinerama Dome

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6. Reel to Real: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Defeats the Trolls

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7. The Paramount-Warner Merger Pause Is the Deliberation We Skipped | Guest Column

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