Paramount Pictures Co-Chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein sent out a Day 1 memo to the troops at the Paramount and Warner Bros. Motion Picture units. Among the priorities, we understand, is keeping legacies of both studios alive.
Skydance president Andy Gordon has solidified leadership positions across key areas outside the newly merged company’s TV and film divisions, including games and experiences, products and publishing, HR and global operations.
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.
At this afternoon’s presser for the newly-merged Skydance, 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.
The new owner of Warner Bros. Discovery believes all the apparent coziness with the president is just business as usual. "We don’t want to politicize,” says the Skydance chief.
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 T...