Paramount completes acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, creating Skydance

A lot of people lamenting the Paramount/Warner merger and fearing David Ellison's control over the media are forgetting that we have three secret weapons at our disposal, currently lurking high up in the Warner water tower.

Skydance Corporation, the company that newly combined Paramount and Warner Bros., will have an annual revenue of $70 billion, but will now have to wrestle $80 BILLION dollars of debt.

Warner Bros and Paramount have officially merged. DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

Ah, the whistle of the post-merger layoff train. “Keeping jobs in Hollywood”: oh, please.

This means a handful of Trump’s billionaire buddies will control huge parts of the media. The next president needs to break up all the mergers approved under this administration. Big business has to understand there are consequences when they team up with corrupt government.

End of an era: Skydance has finalized its historic merger, bringing Warner Bros. and Paramount under the same corporate roof for the first time and consolidating two of Hollywood’s most significant animation legacies. www.cartoonbrew.com/business/sky...

Wait, so you're telling me that Skydance, the monopolistic conglomeration of Warner Brothers and Paramount that said there wouldn't be layoffs as a result of the merger are already announcing layoffs? I am so surprised by this information.

“Thoughtfully and respectfully” yeah right, you’re just doing this shit bc Paramount was already on debt. So go fuck urself Skydance and I hope the employees who were laid off find better jobs than Skydance.

Paramount has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. In the press release confirming the deal has closed, the word 'games' is not mentioned once. I've been pinging both Paramount and WB all week for clarification on what the future holds for WB. Games. No reply yet.

He's built a debt laden mishmash of businesses, which will now be slashed, burned and AI'd. Yeah!!!

Monopolies are the blight on this world and high-end art is completely fucked and on a deathbed of course, but man that logo has negative amount of sauce. Like, WB is a weird but memorable shield/badge and Paramount is cool mountains And skydance is a boring, zero-swag text Great job all around :\

Ellison's first Skydance town hall has just wrapped. "Lies. All lies," one CBS News source reacted to Ellison's pledge to respect the news networks' editorial independence, referencing Ellison's previous broken promise to CBS News when he bought Paramount.

Hope y'all like right-wing cowboy shows and reality shows starring people famous for being on other reality shows, because that is literally all that is going to be made by what was formally Paramount and Warner Brothers from now on.

Skydance has barely existed as an actual Thing for half a week and already it’s making clear that it’ll just play the hits til it can’t no more deadline.com/2026/10/stev...

The son of one of the biggest of the Epstein class creeps - and possessor of perhaps the singularly most punchable faces in all business, now essentially controls US media We are truly in the final stages of oligarchy before collapse www.ft.com/content/9375...