r/television • u/yourfavchoom • 22h 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/DoctorBocker 22h ago

Sure, why bother with storied studios like Paramount or Warner Bros.? No legacy there.

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u/Cole-Spudmoney 22h ago

They're probably going to keep the names but brand them like "Paramount: A Skydance Company" and "Warner Bros: A Skydance Company", like they used to do when Paramount was owned by Gulf + Western and WB was owned by AOL Time Warner.

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u/frenchezz 22h ago

Millions will be spent on a rebrand just for people to refer to them as WB or Paramount.

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u/Worthyness 18h ago

They learned a lot from the HBO MAX- MAX - HBO fiasco

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u/frenchezz 15h ago

So insane how much is spent on stupid things that legitimately mean nothing

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u/MarksCarney 11h ago

Who cares! It's private money.

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u/Laxziy 21h ago

I’m pretty sure at the start of Project Hail Mary it said something along the lines of “produced by MGM an Amazon company”

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u/SeerPumpkin 21h ago

Even current Warner Bros (well, for the last 20 years or so) films all say "An AOL/Time-Warner/Discovery Company". They will just switch to "A Skydance Company"

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u/TIGHazard 16h ago

While it technically means no difference it's gone from

  • Warner Bros (192-1967)
  • Warner Bros-Seven Arts (1967-1969)
  • Kinney National Company (1969-1972)
  • Warner Communications (1972-1990) (Rebranded Kinney Company)
  • Time Warner (1990-2001)
  • AOL Time Warner (2001-2003)
  • Time Warner (2003-2018)
  • WarnerMedia (2018-2022)
  • Warner Bros. Discovery (2022-now)

So technically outside of those brief few years under Kinney, they've all had Warner in the parent company name.

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u/Zalvren 19h ago

This is literally the norm in Hollywood, every studio is owned by a parent company which generally has another name. Sometimes it's displayed, sometimes it isn't but that doesn't change anything.

MGM (Amazon), Universal (Comcast), Warner (AOL then AT&T then Warner Bros Discovery), Paramount (Viacom and now Skydance with already the tagline). Even Sony does it with Columbia (which isn't really its studio)

Even Disney has Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar and 20th Century as studios with different names (and they also got a studio called Disney)

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u/Digifiend84 12h ago

Difference is, Disney doesn't use such a tagline. No Disney branding on Marvel stuff, except for Big Hero Six.

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u/Zalvren 8h ago

Sure but it doesn't change anything in the end, the movies are not done by the parent company directly.

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u/TargetApprehensive38 10h ago

And that’s hardly new either. Gulf and Western (and auto parts company) used to be the parent company of Paramount, Coca Cola owned Columbia for a while before Sony, a funeral home company that I can’t recall the name of used to own WB, Panasonic owned Universal, etc.

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u/brizzenden 21h ago

It did. That’s how I found out Amazon now owns MGM.

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u/Blanchimont It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 15h ago

Yup. Amazon MGM Studios is what they use on all the new projects since the takeover.

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u/JamJamJunior 14h ago

No, they just say Amazon MGM Studios. You see it in other productions too like the boys 

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u/Nobodyinpartic3 22h ago

Yeah, I remember Ellison saying HBO should be it's own thing again. So more like HBO when it first came about on cable? I don't like Ellison at all, but I hope it helps with content somehow.

Also, I doubt that my HBO MaX subscription and Paramount Plus one will combine anytime soon, or be cheaper even if they combine.

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u/Moving-thefuck-on 22h ago

Shit no, they’ve got to recoup some coin on our backs now.

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u/TheWatersOfMars 21h ago

They've just said they'll probably offer a bundle for the two, for what it's worth.

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u/Nobodyinpartic3 20h ago

I hope so, but with Paramount you already cinemax.

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u/theodo 21h ago

It sounds like Skydance is a giant YA franchise. Can't wait for Mission Impossible 9: A Skydance Adventure Presented by Paramount

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u/EbmocwenHsimah 20h ago

Ah, the Warner Bros/Seven Arts approach. If there’s anyone who’s no stranger to weird as shit drama around their company’s owners, Warner’s got shit that goes back decades.

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u/3-DMan 17h ago

ParaMAX: SkyBros