David Ellison and the leadership team at Paramount expected to spend much of the summer settling into new digs with Warner Bros. asks one Warner Bros. executive. But the looming question at this point is: What is the breaking point for the Ellisons? Paramount execs and legal advisers appear to have made a critical error in believing the Warner Bros. deal would be a regulatory slam-dunk. I think the AGs just want someone else to buy [the Warner Bros.