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After the COVID-19 pandemic, two strikes in Hollywood and with the impact of streaming and the advent of A.I, the media landscape has continued to shift and consolidate, as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav predicted as recently as the 2024 Allen & Co. Sun Valley Retreat. Zazlav knows whereof…

Fund manager Mario Gabelli, the biggest holder of Paramount Global Class A voting shares after Shari Redstone, said he absolutely needs more information on the Skydance transaction than what's been publicly disclosed before he can decide if he likes terms. On Friday, Gabelli sent a letter to…

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive situation involving six parties, Paramount Pictures has snapped up rights to Over Asking, a sexual revenge thriller spec from Caroline Dries. Both streamers and traditional studios were in the mix, as others who made offers included Amazon, Apple, Skydance, New Line…

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EXCLUSIVE: Sony will not be one of those rival parties trying to shore up a better bid during Paramount Global’s “Go Shop” period following the $8 billion offer by David Ellison’s Skydance Media. This is according to sources tonight. The news formally puts to rest the only other confirmed offer on the…

EXCLUSIVE: A lotta people around the world watched the official trailer for Paramount’s Gladiator II in its first 24 hours after dropping Tuesday. So much so that it outstripped the debut trailer traffic of the studio’s own Top Gun: Maverick. You’ll remember Top Gun: Maverick posted a three-day U.S. box…

Paramount has laid out some terms of its planned merger with David Ellison's Skydance, including what happens if another bidder appears. The deal includes a so-called "go shop" period during which other interest parties can submit offers. It runs for 45 days from the announcement of the deal, which…

Skydance CEO David Ellison said Tom Cruise of Paramount's Mission Impossible and Top Gun franchises "is supportive of the planned merger and that the "outreach that we have received from the entertainment community has been pretty remarkable and humbling." "I think there’s a great opportunity, the…

July in full swing sees top media executives and an impressive political cohort gathered at a storied mountain resort to hike, chat and whitewater raft. The elixir of relaxed proximity distilled in Sun Valley’s rustic woods is credited with hatching a number of consequential deals over the…

S&P Global Ratings, the first to wave a red flag about Paramount's finances last fall, today called the planned merger with Skydance "positive" but said it will continue to monitor the transaction, citing concern over the long lead time amid the ongoing decline of linear television. For now, the…

"Global" is in the name above the door and industry-watchers are weighing the international ramifications of Skydance's $8B merger investment in Paramount. Paramount Global top brass has said it is business as usual until the deal is over the line, but international analysts are already considering…

“There might have been other scenarios that could have played out in other ways, but this seems to be currently the scenario for the moment.” Those were Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman’s thoughts tonight when Deadline asked him at the NYC premiere of Apple’s Fly Me to t…