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Paramount Slams Mark Ruffalo “Genocide” Merger Comments

8/31/2026

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Mark Ruffalo posted an Instagram reel calling the Paramount-Warner merger “genocide” built on “apartheid”.
Paramount said Ruffalo’s language invoked antisemitic tropes and called it “a bridge too far”.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Creative Community for Peace condemned the comments.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan defended Ruffalo, calling the antisemitism claim “preposterous” and a “cynical, disgusting lie”.

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Mark Ruffalo posted an Instagram reel calling the Paramount-Warner merger “genocide” built on “apartheid”.
Paramount said Ruffalo’s language invoked antisemitic tropes and called it “a bridge too far”.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Creative Community for Peace condemned the comments.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan defended Ruffalo, calling the antisemitism claim “preposterous” and a “cynical, disgusting lie”.