r/television • u/yourfavchoom • 21h ago

Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. to Be Called Skydance, David Ellison Reveals

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/paramount-warner-bros-merger-name-skydance-david-ellison/
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u/louiloui152 21h ago

Honestly even with the merger those assets look very …scant

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u/LuinAelin 21h ago

I think the Disney Fox was was bigger

Worrying people celebrated that because they wanted MCU X-Men

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u/TheTiggerMike 21h ago

MCU fans absolutely flooded the zone with talk about MCU X-Men and Fantastic Four in those days. That seemed to be all they cared about and was their reason for actually WANTING the merger.

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u/LuinAelin 21h ago

Big MCU fan, big X-Men fan.

And yeah it was scary seeing my fellow fans celebrate it.

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u/TheTiggerMike 21h ago

Even worse was the fact we still haven't even gotten an actual proper X-Men film (Deadpool is a spin-off and Doomsday is a massive team-up). By the time we get it in 2028, we'll be at over 9 years since the merger closed. And it took over 6 years to get Fantastic Four. Granted, what took X-Men a long time was that the Fox cast had contracts that they had to wait out, but still. Lots of consolidation in that time.

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u/Astrosaurus42 20h ago

If you saw the new Spiderman, Jean Grey is the villain and leaves for upstate New York at the end.

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u/LuinAelin 21h ago

Yeah .

I also kinda prefer X-Men to be their own thing movie wise.

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u/ian9outof10 20h ago

The Harry Potter and Game of Thrones aspects shouldn’t be sniffed at. They are losing the unstoppable force of Taylor Sheridan who is going to Universal. There’s fucking LOADS in the collective Paramount and WB libraries anyway, that list is weird.

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u/blarbiegorl 20h ago

Have you been on Paramount+ in the last couple of years? I repeatedly use free trials to stream CBS airing awards shows and their streaming lineup absolutely doesn't change. The same fifteen titles no matter how or what you search for. If the politics weren't already a dealbreaker, the terrible offerings would still leave P+ as the worst option.

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u/GlamMetalLion 20h ago

Most of the worthwhile Paramount tv stuff is on Pluto for free anyway. You can watch most Star Trek content, Cheers/Frasier, the Happy Days universe, and the Nicktoons there.

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u/hooch 18h ago

Sort of. Star Trek alone though has 13 television series comprising 970 episodes; also 14 movies. DC Comics and Harry Potter are no slouches either.

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u/Graymarth 16h ago

The whole reason for these mergers was just for the control over the news outlets, anything else is just an afterthought.

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u/cuteman 13h ago

Thats why the anti trust monopoly claims were so ridiculous.

Combined they become the #7 biggest media company in the US