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David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on April 16, 2026, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger gets a name: Skydance

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

The Paramount Pictures water tower is seen in Los Angeles, Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Judge approves Paramount’s settlement with states over Warner buyout, allowing merger to soon close

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips - Associated Press

David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on April 16, 2026, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

States settle lawsuit over Paramount-Warner merger, clearing key hurdle for $81 billion deal

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

The main gate to Paramount Studios is seen on Melrose Avenue, July 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Paramount signals exit from California amid merger fight

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Study: Paramount exit could cost California nearly 58,000 jobs, $21 billion a year

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Rosie O'Donnell arrives at the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Rosie O’Donnell says Ellison-run CNN would be ‘tragic,’ invokes Nazi analogy

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Paramount CEO David Ellison threatens to leave California if antitrust settlement isn’t reached

By Juliet La Sala - The Washington Times

David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

CEO David Ellison threatens to move Paramount out of California by Oct. 1

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

The Paramount Pictures water tower is seen in Los Angeles, Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Paramount weighs California exit if Warner Bros. deal collapses

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

The Paramount Pictures water tower is seen in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Paramount Skydance merger with Warner Bros. Discovery won’t harm competition, consumers, DOJ says

By Alex Veiga - Associated Press

Vehicles enter Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

With worries about WBD acquisition looming, Paramount takes the stage at CinemaCon

By Lindsey Bahr - Associated Press

Paramount Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison arrives before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Inside Skydance’s 20-year rise to overtake Paramount, Warner Bros

By Matt Sedensky - Associated Press

Leftists erupt after Paramount names Bari Weiss to lead CBS News, buys The Free Press

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News after Paramount buys her website

By David Bauder - Associated Press

Brendan Carr listens during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2020. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP, File)

Paramount and Skydance close their $8 billion merger, kicking off reign of new entertainment giant

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips - Associated Press

Brendan Carr listens during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2020. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP, File)

Paramount gets green light for $8 billion merger. But what is the psychic cost for company?

By David Bauder - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 28, 2018 file photo, Emma Thompson appears at a screening of &quot;King Lear&quot; in central London. In a letter to Skydance Media, Thompson outlined why she was withdrawing from the animated film “Luck” and refused to work with the former Pixar executive John Lasseter. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Emma Thompson to Skydance: I won’t work with John Lasseter

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press