Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete Merger as Skydance
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Skydance-owned Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, creating a combined company named Skydance. David Ellison, who led the takeover, and outgoing Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz will serve as co-CEOs.
The transaction was valued at $81 billion, or nearly $111 billion including debt, according to The Indian Express. Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery had reached their merger agreement in February. The deal closed after the companies settled a legal challenge by a group of state attorneys general.
The new company brings Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery networks under one corporate owner, along with film franchises including *Top Gun*, *The Godfather* and *Harry Potter*. The merged business will trade under the ticker “SKYD.”
Ellison said the corporate name was chosen so Paramount and Warner Bros. could remain distinct studio brands. “We never wanted a new corporate identity to diminish, alter or overshadow either one,” he said when announcing the name. The two studios are scheduled to release a combined 35 films next year, CNBC reported, citing Rentrak data.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: One sentence states an unsupported sequence around the February agreement and Netflix bidding contest, which can be fixed by removing the sequencing claim. - "Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery had reached their merger agreement in February following a bidding contest that included Netflix.": CNBC says they struck the agreement in February; The Indian Express says they inked it by late February, not necessarily after Netflix bowed out, so 'following' states an unsupported sequence.
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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete Merger as Skydance
Skydance-owned Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, creating a combined company named Skydance. David Ellison, who led the takeover, and outgoing Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz will serve as co-CEOs.
The transaction was valued at $81 billion, or nearly $111 billion including debt, according to The Indian Express. Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery had reached their merger agreement in February following a bidding contest that included Netflix.February. The deal closed after the companies settled a legal challenge by a group of state attorneys general.
The new company brings Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery networks under one corporate owner, along with film franchises including *Top Gun*, *The Godfather* and *Harry Potter*. The merged business will trade under the ticker “SKYD.”
Ellison said the corporate name was chosen so Paramount and Warner Bros. could remain distinct studio brands. “We never wanted a new corporate identity to diminish, alter or overshadow either one,” he said when announcing the name. The two studios are scheduled to release a combined 35 films next year, CNBC reported, citing Rentrak data.
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