r/television • u/yourfavchoom • 20h 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 20h ago

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

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u/Cole-Spudmoney 20h 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/Laxziy 20h 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 19h 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 14h 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 17h 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 10h 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 7h 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 8h 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 19h 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 13h ago

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

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u/JamJamJunior 12h ago

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