The Hollywood blast radius of Marvel star Mark Ruffalo‘s recent Instagram critique of Larry and David Ellison expanded over the weekend.

A top civil rights attorney, Mark Goldfeder, says he has filed requests to see California AG Rob Bonta‘s past correspondence with Ruffalo, Page Six Hollywood has learned.

On Friday, Ruffalo shared a clip on Instagram of former Oracle CEO and current Paramount board member Safra Catz discussing Oracle’s “really profoundly scary technologies” that the Israeli military used following the Oct. 7 terror attacks.

Ruffalo wrote: “This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition. These ‘really profoundly scary technologies’ will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.”

He also called the elder Ellison a “classic oligarch” who “is consolidating the wealth of the world for [his family’s] own power and concentrated dominance.”

Hours later, Paramount released a statement that accused Ruffalo of peddling “antisemitic tropes.” (The following morning, Ruffalo defended his post and criticized Paramount for “dishonestly” framing “this critical and necessary dialogue.”)

A flurry of statements slamming Ruffalo ensued over the weekend, most notably from the Creative Coalition for Peace, which urged Hollywood to deplatform the actor for “extremist and antisemitic messaging,” marking the first time the group has called for such action against an industry figure.

As the drama escalated, Bonta has found himself in the uncomfortable position of being asked questions about his relationship with Ruffalo. (Late Sunday, Bonta reportedly canceled settlement talks with Paramount Skydance attorneys that were to begin today.)

Bonta appears to have enjoyed an open dialogue with the actor about the merger well before his lawsuit was filed on July 13.

Back in February, Ruffalo posted on X: “Please let’s circle up all the State AG’s and talk about how this is going to kill completion [sic] in the industry and drive down wages, and product quality for consumers.”

Bonta then quote-tweeted Ruffalo and said, “Mark, I hear you. I’m in conversation with my AG colleagues about Paramount/Warner Bros.”

On May 21, Bonta appeared alongside Ruffalo at a virtual town hall organized by the #BlockTheMerger coalition. Other participants in the Q&A included Javier Bardem, who has been a vocal critic of Israel as well as the merger.

Goldfeder told Page Six Hollywood over the weekend: “Mark Ruffalo told us exactly what this campaign against the Jewish Ellison family is really about: Israel, ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid.’ The attorney general said he was listening. Our California Public Records Act requests will show whether he heard that part too before he filed suit and whether this was antitrust enforcement or state power lent to someone else’s very different grievance.”

Bonta didn’t respond to a request for comment or to clarify whether or not he shares the actor’s sentiments that entwine Israel and the merger.  

The merger is currently on ice, with a federal trial scheduled for March in Oakland if a settlement can’t be reached.

Also, the Creative Coalition for Peace’s statement on deplatforming Ruffalo was noteworthy given that the group boasts a number of industry heavyweights among its advisory board including WME’s Rick Rosen, former Paramount chief Sherry Lansing and former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment Ben Silverman, as well as two agents at UTA, where Ruffalo is repped.

The org’s statement blasted Ruffalo for rhetoric that has “increasingly crossed the line from criticism of Israel into extremist and antisemitic messaging,” and called for the actor to “retract these remarks and apologize… nobody in Hollywood should platform him until he does.”

CCFP executive director Ari Ingel told Page Six Hollywood of Ruffalo, “His words have consequences.”

Ruffalo is a top client of Hollywood agency UTA, and Ingel also referred to a separate, 2025 incident when the LA home of UTA Vice Chairman Jay Sures — who’s also a University of California regent and an outspoken Israel supporter — was vandalized by protesters.

“One of the leading agents at [Ruffalo’s] own agency had his house attacked,” Ingel says. “I don’t remember Mark saying, ‘Attacking the head of my agency is unacceptable. This movement should never be doing things like that.’ I haven’t heard that from him. Wouldn’t that be something?”

UTA declined to comment on the CCFP’s call to deplatform the actor, either on behalf of the agency or the star. 

Back in 2023, UTA dropped Susan Sarandon as a client after she said at a rally, “There are a lot of people afraid of being Jewish at this time and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.” (Sarandon apologized and called her phrasing “a terrible mistake.” Shani Rosenzweig, who repped Sarandon at the time, is Ruffalo’s point agent.)

Ironically, Ruffalo accused Israel of committing “genocide” in 2021 — but then apologized and admitted that the claim was “not accurate,” “inflammatory” and was “being used to justify antisemitism.”

One industry figure mocked Ruffalo’s Saturday tweet in which he cited “the Jewish friends, colleagues and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.”

“He did the old: ‘Some of my best friends are Jewish, so therefore I’m not an antisemite,’” the person scoffed. “That’s not exactly exculpatory, my friend.”

On the horizon, Ruffalo has a number of high-profile projects already in the can including Apple’s “Being Heumann,” which will screen as the opening night film at the Toronto Film Festival next month and is expected to be a major contender in the upcoming awards season.

He also has Lena Dunham’s “Good Sex” at Netflix and Pixar’s “Gatto,” both of which are in postproduction.

HBO also plans to make a Season 2 of “Task” — which Ruffalo toplines — as a crossover with the previous Kate Winslet hit, “Mare of Easttown.”

While Ruffalo appears as The Hulk in this summer’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and in the previous “Avengers” movies, the character is not slated to appear in Marvel’s upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” (unless it is a top-secret cameo).

Ruffalo did almost no press for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which became the biggest movie of the summer.