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All the IP David Ellison’s Skydance Gets in Paramount Acquisition

All the IP David Ellison’s Skydance Gets in Paramount Acquisition

Now that David Ellison’s Skydance has secured the keys to Paramount Global, what toys await him inside the company’s intellectual property chest? After a nail-biting federal approval process that inspired backlash, Ellison and team have not only secured a legacy distributor, but a trove of content in various stages of production and development. As the new Skydance-Paramount team prepares to …

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DEI is dead at Paramount, David Ellison’s Skydance promises FCC

DEI is dead at Paramount, David Ellison’s Skydance promises FCC

David Ellison’s Skydance Media pledged to abandon all diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Paramount Global in an attempt to win government approval for its $8-billion merger. Paramount already had scaled back diversity programs earlier this year. In a Tuesday letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, Skydance said it would go further to cancel diversity efforts. “Paramount no …

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