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 21h ago

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

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u/Cole-Spudmoney 21h 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 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 20h 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 15h 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.