Paramount Agrees to Skydance Deal, Ending Redstone Era
- Ellison-led group plans to invest over $8 billion in business
- Investors vow to give film and TV giant a fresh start
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Paramount Global agreed to merge with Skydance Media in a deal that hands control of the storied Hollywood studio to producer David Ellison, ending one of the industry’s most dramatic acquisitions.
As part of the complicated deal that was months in the making, Paramount Chair Shari Redstone agreed to sell her family’s National Amusements Inc., which controls about 77% of the voting stock in Paramount, for $2.4 billion, according to a statement from the company on Sunday.