Paramount completes $110B Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance
The combined company starts with $80 billion in debt and aims for $6 billion in annual synergies, executives said.
- Paramount completed its $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a combined company called Skydance.
- The merger combines major entertainment and news brands, including Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount+ and HBO Max.
- David Ellison will lead Skydance, with Ynon Kreiz serving as co-CEO.
- The deal faced antitrust opposition and resulted in a settlement that added safeguards for film production and editorial independence at CNN and CBS.
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Chicago. It’s official: Paramount completed Warner Bros’ acquisition for $81 billion, giving way to a new Hollywood giant known as Skydance. Including Warner’s debts, the acquisition amounts to nearly $111 billion. The deal, which was concluded after a turbulent dispute of about a year, concentrates even more power in an industry that is already dominated by a handful of large companies, experts said.
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Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will merge into a new company under Skydance, and it will bring a competitive sports rights portfolio with a lucrative valuation. After months of negotiations, failed deals and legal inquiries, Paramount parent company Skydance has completed the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The $110bn deal will see WBD and Paramount merge under combined company titled Skydance, bringing both WBD and Paramo…
Paramount Skydance Group has finalized the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WDB) on Tuesday, October 6, for $110 billion. The new group, renamed Skydance, brings together CNN, CBS News, HBO and the Harry Potter franchise.
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