Crossfiled / David Ellison
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Ellison and his team must braid together two huge film studios (housing nine film labels), four streaming services, three TV production studios, three animation units and more than 50 television networks, including two prominent news organizations.
Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, creating a new media mega-player called Skydance that will control large swaths of the entertainment industry and ending a monthslong saga as the merger has drawn widespread opposition in Hollywood.
Skydance-owned Paramount has completed its $81bn (£61bn) takeover of Warner Bros Discovery - bringing together the two media giants under a combined company.
Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails.
Paramount Skydance on Tuesday closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, ending a dramatic, yearlong process that rattled Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington. Why it matters: The deal creates one of the largest entertainment behemoths in the world and makes David Ellison — a lesser-known f
The tech scion has given his combination of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount a new name: Skydance. Now he must make tough decisions about news, movies, streaming, sports and debt.
David Ellison is negotiating to keep CNN’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, in place without oversight from Bari Weiss, the CBS editor in chief, when the networks’ parent companies merge.
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