California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a group of 12 attorneys general from across the country filed a lawsuit Monday attempting to block the Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance merger, which shook up the Hollywood landscape when it was announced earlier this year.

The two companies first announced the deal in February, and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division signed off on the merger in June.

Bonta announced the lawsuit, which was filed against Paramount Skydance Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in a press release Monday. In it, he referred to the $110 billion deal as “unlawful.”

“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.,” Bonta said in a statement included in the release.

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