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David Ellison Looks to Break Hollywood’s Merger Curse

The billionaire movie producer has already acquired Paramount. Now he wants to combine it with another storied Hollywood studio.

The Paramount studio in Los Angeles 

Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg

Good afternoon and happy Emmy Sunday to those of you who celebrate.

We are now less than a month from Screentime, so I want to share a couple of additions to the lineup: David Ellison, the new owner of Paramount and perhaps future owner of Warner Bros., as well as Sara and Erin Foster, the creators of Nobody Wants This. We still have a couple more announcements to come – and one final slot to fill.