Warner Bros Montreal has reportedly been hit with an unknown number of layoffs as the larger Warner Bros company is in an ongoing acquisition process in which it is set to be acquired by Paramount Skydance. Though it was initially set to be acquired by Netflix, the streaming service bowed out of the deal last month, after being outbid by Paramount Skydance.

Now, as is the pattern for nearly all major acquisitions, whether it’s during the acquisition process like this one or after it closes, layoffs become part of the picture. Spotted by GamesIndustry.Biz, the news of the layoffs broke when employees began sharing that they had been cut on LinkedIn. The cuts seem to have impacted all branches at Warner Bros Montreal, with producers, level designers, and narrative designers all impacted.

Each of the employees who’ve spoken out worked at WB Montreal for over five years, some of them close to reaching their decade mark at the studio. Wccftech has reached out to Warner Bros for a comment but did not receive a response ahead of publication.

Outside of the pattern that major acquisitions like this always lead to layoffs and cost-cutting efforts, after Netflix bowed out of the deal, chief executive officer Ted Sarandos admitted to Bloomberg that when digging through Warner Bros financials, the company deduced that there would be cost-cutting measures totalling more than $16 billion over the next 18 months.

“We were in the books of Warner Bros, and the biggest cost centers are the people in productions. There’ll be cuts in excess of $16 billion. They are telling people who lend them the money that’s going to happen in 18 months or so.“

WB Montreal’s last major release was Gotham Knights in 2022. It also supported work on the cancelled Wonder Woman game, which was shut down alongside Monolith Productions in 2025. WB Montreal had also previously been hit with layoffs at the end of 2024.

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