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What Paramount’s Warner Bros. takeover means for streaming, movies and news
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Soprano, meet Vito Corleone.
In a marriage of two massive Hollywood portfolios, Paramount’s $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery closed Tuesday, uniting everything from cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and SpongeBob Squarepants to news delivered by Anderson Cooper and Gayle King.
The resulting company, a behemoth now known as Skydance, reshapes the media world. Here’s what the deal may mean for streaming, movies, news and more:
Skydance brings Paramount+ together with HBO Max with plans to unify its streaming products“into a single service over time.”What this would be called and how it might affect consumer costs and choices remains unknown. David Ellison, the architect of the deal and the company’s CEO, has suggested HBO could still have some level of independence.
“Our viewpoint is, HBO should stay HBO,”Ellison said earlier this year. “They built a phenomenal brand, they are a leader in this space and we just want them to continue doing more of it. But by bringing the platforms together, all of our content will be able to reach even a broader audience than we can do standalone.”
Paramount also has acquired Warner’s smaller Discovery+ streamer, joining Paramount+, Pluto TV and BET+.
Critics have expressed skepticism about how consumers might benefit, warning that already rising subscription fees could spike as the conglomerate meets payments on the billions of dollars in debt Ellison took on to finance the deal.
What’s not in dispute is the size of the resulting library of content. Paramount+ and HBO Max alone add up to roughly 14% of the U.S. streaming market, comparable to rival Disney+, but still behind Amazon Prime at 17% and Netflix at 19%, according to the streaming guide JustWatch. It pairs movie franchises like“Mission: Impossible”with“Lord of the Rings,”television hits from“I Love Lucy”to“Friends,”and personalities ranging from Guy Fieri to RuPaul.
Don’t expect a“Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Drag Race”anytime soon, but with so many properties combining forces, there is potential for all kinds of crossover.
Paramount and Warner Bros. are two of Hollywood’s oldest studios. Their merger means fewer companies control legacy film production .
Under a settlement reached last month with 12 states, the combined company has agreed to distribute 30 films in theaters each year for the next two years — and 32 films each year for three years after that. The fine print notes that only 50% of those movies would have to be“produced or jointly produced”by the combined company. Skydance also agreed to increase spending on film production in the U.S. by at least $1.5 billion over the next five years.
Still, many have expressed worry about what further consolidation could mean for jobs and which projects are greenlit down the road. Regulatory filings have indicated that the new ownership will be looking for ways to cut costs — including layoffs and downsizing some overlapping operations.
Hollywood’s big six shrank to five when Disney bought most of 20th Century Fox in a deal finalized in 2019. Now it’s a big four: Skydance, Disney, Universal and Sony.
The deal also puts news giants CNN and CBS under the same ownership, a concern among many journalists given the Ellison family’s close relationship with President Donald Trump.
CBS News has taken steps to appeal to more conservative viewers since Ellison installed Free Press founder Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief. At“60 Minutes,”the new management brought heaps of turmoil, with the firings of its executive producer and three veteran correspondents, who have claimed that Weiss sought changes to news reports that appeared to be driven by politics.
Trump, who has attacked the reporting of both networks as“fake news,”said Tuesday that he’s happy the merger closed, and that Skydance is“going to be a great company.”
Foreign investors poised to hold sizable indirect ownership stakes are also in the spotlight. The FCC cleared Paramount’s request for sovereign funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to indirectly own nearly 50% of the combined company’s equity interests, and potentially up to 100% through future investments, but no voting rights.
Ellison has said editorial independence will be maintained at CNN. The combined company is retaining Mark Thompson as CNN’s editor-in-chief, and has agreed to form a“News Editorial Independence Board.”
Skydance’s corporate board of directors will choose who sits on this new body.
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Grantham-Philips reported from Chicago.
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派拉蒙以 810 亿美元收购华纳兄弟发现公司，成立 Skydance 公司，整合 HBO Max 和 Paramount+ 流媒体服务，并合并好莱坞工作室和 CNN 与 CBS 新闻巨头，引发媒体整合担忧。
派拉蒙以 810 亿美元收购华纳兄弟发现公司，合并成 Skydance 公司，整合了从动画如《虫儿飞》和《海绵宝宝》到新闻如安德森·库珀和盖尔·金的庞大媒体资产。
Skydance 计划将 HBO Max 和 Paramount+ 统一成单一流媒体服务，内容库占美国市场约 14%，与迪士尼 + 相当，包含《使命不可能》和《老友记》等电影特许经营权以及《我爱露西》到《老友记》等电视节目。
合并后，好莱坞大工作室减少至 4 家，Skydance 承诺每年在影院上映 30-32 部电影，并增加美国电影生产支出至少 15 亿美元，引发对裁员和项目绿灯的担忧。
合并还将 CNN 和 CBS 置于同一所有权下，引发对编辑独立性的担忧，因埃里森家族与特朗普总统的密切关系，保留了新闻编辑独立委员会。
外国投资者将持有近 50% 的股权，通过主权基金间接拥有。
Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery creates Skydance, combining streaming services like HBO Max and Paramount+ and merging Hollywood studios and news giants, raising concerns over media consolidation and content crossover.
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