A plan by Paramount CEO David Ellison to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into a single streaming service will allow nearly 8 million Americans currently paying for both services to drop a subscription, ...

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Paramount made two big hires as it builds its ad business under CEO David Ellison. Paramount, fresh from winning Warner Bros. Discovery, is bringing on Amazon vet Danielle Carney. Read the memo from ...

David Ellison reaffirmed his pledge to release 30 films theatrically once Paramount merges with Warner Bros. Discovery. “As we have said consistently, we are committed to delivering a broad pipeline ...

More than 100 productions fall under the two companies’ various studios. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A big media merger may cause a major reset of ...

Warner Bros Discovery has agreed to a blockbuster merger with Paramount Skydance, marking one of the biggest shake-ups in the entertainment industry in years. Under the terms of the agreement, ...

Paramount Skydance received a big vote of confidence from its controlling shareholders, including the Ellison family, when they agreed to fully back an equity offering to help fund the company’s deal ...

Larry Ellison at the White House in 2025, on one of at least four trips to D.C. last year. Last August, the Ellisons took control of Paramount in an $8 billion merger with Skydance, the entertainment ...

Warner Bros. Discovery's blockbuster announcement Thursday that it would accept Paramount Skydance's takeover bid shouldn't be thought of simply as seeking to unify two major Hollywood players, two ...

This week has had some major news for Hollywood when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. While it had seemed like a done deal that Netflix would acquire Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount was able to ...

Netflix has dropped out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), making Paramount Skydance the expected owner of WBD. A Paramount-WBD merger remains subject to regulatory approval, but ...

Netflix and HBO could have been a combination for the ages, or the quality of the latter could have slowly eroded under the cost-sensitive stewardship of the former. We’ll never know. Though not a ...