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Paramount’s Chris McCarthy, Brian Robbins to Get $18 Million Payouts

Paramount’s Chris McCarthy, Brian Robbins to Get  Million Payouts

Thirteen months after David Ellison and Shari Redstone hashed out an $8 billion megadeal that would shift ownership of Paramount Global from the heir of a media mogul to the heir of a tech mogul, that merger finally closed on Thursday. As the Skydance team, led by Ellison as CEO and former NBCUniversal exec Jeff Shell as president, settles in, …

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Brian Robbins Calls Paramount-Skydance Merger ‘Bittersweet’

Brian Robbins Calls Paramount-Skydance Merger ‘Bittersweet’

Brian Robbins, former co-CEO of Paramount Global and president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, is reflecting on his time at the company amid his exit following the Skydance merger. “This moment of transition is, of course, bittersweet,” he said in a Wednesday afternoon memo to staff obtained by Variety. “But I step away with deep pride in what we’ve built together, and …

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