Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Is Skydance Media the forward-looking entity that Paramount Global needs right now to save the company?
Ending months of M&A drama, Paramount Global and Skydance Media, David Ellison’s smaller media and production company, on Sunday announced a two-part transaction that will result in Skydance buying out Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc.
and then merging with Paramount — to form what the Skydance team for now is calling “New Paramount.” About $6 billion of the money to fund the deal is coming from the family of Oracle founder Larry Ellison (David’s father), with about $2 billion from Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital Partners private-equity investment firm.
The companies said they expect the deal to close by Sept. 30, 2025, pending regulatory clearances (analysts don’t expect any major hurdles there) and other conditions.
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