Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California who is leading a 12-state coalition's lawsuit seeking to block Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, responded to David Ellison's threat to pull Paramount out of the state unless Bonta agrees to settlement talks.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison argued the antitrust case against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger was about politics.

David Ellison is prepared start moving Paramount out of California as soon as Oct. 1 unless the state's attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settlement talks in the antitrust…