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Skydance Sets Leadership Across Games, Products, HR

Skydance Sets Leadership Across Games, Products, HR

Skydance President Andy Gordon unveiled a new round of division heads as the company formed by the combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery continues to take shape. In an internal memo viewed by Deadline, Gordon outlined heads of games, consumer products, HR and global operations. It follows an initial list of key appointments under […]

Anthony GordonParamountSkydance
Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline
Paramount wraps up mega Warner Bros merger to create Hollywood powerhouse Skydance

Paramount wraps up mega Warner Bros merger to create Hollywood powerhouse Skydance

Paramount Skydance completed its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, creating a Hollywood heavyweight that hands CEO David Ellison control of one of the world's ​largest entertainment and news businesses. The deal brings together the studios behind "Mission: Impossible," "Harry Potter" and DC Studios alongside major television and streaming networks such as CBS, CNN and HBO Max. The Ellison family has notably held a long relationship with Republican President Donald Trump, who said that Skydance is “going to be a great company.”

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Oct 7, 2026 · byFrance 24
Goodbye Warner, hello Skydance: how will the major merger really impact Holllywood?

Goodbye Warner, hello Skydance: how will the major merger really impact Holllywood?

After a windier road than expected, Paramount and Warner are now one, under the banner of Skydance, and the film industry is set for a shake-up Hollywood’s big five have officially become the big four. Following a twist-filled saga that saw century-old studio Warner Bros nearly acquired by streaming giant Netflix, only to be outbid by Paramount owners Skydance, the company led by billionaire scion David Ellison, then faced with legal opposition that ultimately crumbled, Warner Bros and Paramount are officially under the same corporate roof . They’re divisions of Skydance, which joins Sony, Disney and Universal as the remaining major-studio players in Hollywood. The merger goes beyond film production. Eventually, the streaming services HBO Max and Paramount+ will merge into a single entity, though a timeline has not been disclosed. The television channels HBO, Showtime, CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TNT, TBS and CNN are among many now owned by a single corporation. The presence of CNN on that list has brought particular scrutiny, given the post-Skydance meddling with the once-respected CBS News, resulting in a rocky stewardship from Bari Weiss, who has overseen a dip in both ratings and prestige for the flagship program 60 Minutes. Weiss isn’t expected to add CNN to her purview; current chair Mark Thompson will remain in place for now , and Skydance has insisted that CNN will remain editorially independent. But given Ellison’s chumminess with Donald Trump, who has long ranted incoherently about CNN’s supposed biases, the presence of an oversight board with Ellison appointees has been cold comfort. Continue reading...

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Oct 7, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Warner Bros. TV Group Boss Channing Dungey Confirms Role as Member of Skydance’s Executive Leadership Team in Memo to Staffers

Warner Bros. TV Group Boss Channing Dungey Confirms Role as Member of Skydance’s Executive Leadership Team in Memo to Staffers

Warner Bros. TV Group & U.S. networks chairman/CEO Channing Dungey sent a memo to her staffers on Tuesday evening confirming her role in the new Skydance structure, including the fact that she will be a part of the company’s new executive leadership team. Dungey’s oversight will be expanding: As expected, she shared the news that […]

Channing DungeySkydance
Oct 7, 2026 · byVariety
Cable Might Be Declining, But Skydance Sees Value In The Content From Its Core Brands Such as MTV & Food Network

Cable Might Be Declining, But Skydance Sees Value In The Content From Its Core Brands Such as MTV & Food Network

As David Ellison brings together Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery under the Skydance umbrella, series such as Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon, Harry Potter and Taylor Sheridan’s Landman have been in the spotlight. But another swathe of content is driving many of the channels that bring in billions of dollars across the […]

David EllisonHarry PotterParamount
Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline
David Ellison’s ‘Day One’ Skydance Press Conference: Studio Lot Dibs, Trump Ties and Everything Else We Learned

David Ellison’s ‘Day One’ Skydance Press Conference: Studio Lot Dibs, Trump Ties and Everything Else We Learned

And just like that, David Ellison is in the driver’s seat. The newly-minted executive leadership team at Skydance — led by chairman and CEO Ellison and his co-CEO Ynon Kreiz — held an on-the-record press gaggle at the Paramount lot in Hollywood, only hours after their hard-fought acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery had officially closed. […]

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Oct 7, 2026 · byVariety
Skydance Sets Leadership Across Games, Experiences, Consumer Products and HR

Skydance Sets Leadership Across Games, Experiences, Consumer Products and HR

Skydance president Andy Gordon has solidified leadership positions across key areas outside of the companies TV and film divisions, including games and experiences, products and publishing, HR and global operations. In a memo to staff Tuesday, which was obtained by Variety, Gordon announced the following: “We’re investing in our future growth engines alongside our core […]

Anthony GordonSkydance
Oct 7, 2026 · byVariety
HBO Max And Paramount+ Will Eventually Combine After “Short-Term” Bundling Phase, David Ellison Says

HBO Max And Paramount+ Will Eventually Combine After “Short-Term” Bundling Phase, David Ellison Says

Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison sees HBO Max and Paramount+ combining into a single service over time after a “short-term” phase as separate-but-bundled services. “Long-term, the plan is basically to bring them together,” Ellison said at a press event held on the Paramount lot to mark the closing of the merger of Paramount and […]

David EllisonDr. MaxHBO Max
Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline
Skydance Co-Boss Ynon Kreiz On When ‘Barbie 2’ Will Be A Go: “Too Early To Talk About That”. However, There’s Hope

Skydance Co-Boss Ynon Kreiz On When ‘Barbie 2’ Will Be A Go: “Too Early To Talk About That”. However, There’s Hope

At this afternoon’s newly merged Skydance presser, we asked when Barbie 2 would be a go project. “Too early to talk about that,” was the official response from former Mattel CEO Ynon Kriez, newly named Skydance co-CEO. Kriez was involved in the first Warner Bros movie based on the famed Mattell blonde doll, that Warner […]

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Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline
David Ellison denies he has ‘politicized’ Skydance despite close Trump links

David Ellison denies he has ‘politicized’ Skydance despite close Trump links

Ellison admits ‘good relationship’ with administration in remarks to reporters about newly merged media company David Ellison, the chief executive of the newly formed media conglomerate Skydance, denied that he has “politicized” the company despite the close connection he has forged with Donald Trump’s White House over the 20 months of his administration. “We have a good relationship with this administration,” Ellison acknowledged to reporters at a Tuesday press briefing focused on the now-consummated merger of Paramount Skydance and CNN parent company Warner Bros Discovery. Continue reading...

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Oct 7, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Josh Goldstine To Oversee Marketing And Distribution At All Skydance Film Labels Including Paramount And Warner Bros

Josh Goldstine To Oversee Marketing And Distribution At All Skydance Film Labels Including Paramount And Warner Bros

Josh Goldstine is being tapped as the head of Marketing and Distribution of all Skydance film labels including Paramount and Warner Bros, Deadline has confirmed. Goldstine had been overseeing marketing at Paramount Pictures, but following the Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger that closed Tuesday, the veteran studio exec will now oversee all marketing and distribution for […]

ParamountParamount PicturesSkydance
Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline
David Ellison Defends Meeting With Trump Amid Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Review, Comments On What Was Said About CNN

David Ellison Defends Meeting With Trump Amid Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Review, Comments On What Was Said About CNN

Skydance CEO David Ellison defended meeting with Donald Trump as Paramount sought to complete its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, while addressing concerns that he talked to the president about the future of CNN. “For absolute clarity, we have not talked to any political leader of any party about news, other than to say that […]

CNNDavid EllisonDonald Trump
Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline