Tech
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Over 30 Movies, a $40 Billion Content Spend and So Much Debt: What We Learned From Skydance’s Kickoff Event
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Skydance CEOs Tease ‘Aggressive’ Content Investment, ‘Difficult Decisions’ to Come in First Employee Town Hall
“We are not coming together to manage decline. We are coming together to build for growth. And we are going to be ambitious about it,” David Ellison says
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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery’s $110 Billion Merger Closes
The Skydance conclusion comes after months of twists and turns, including a bidding war with Netflix and a legal fight with 12 state attorneys general
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Sam Altman Says Elon Musk Is a ‘Bully,’ but Would ‘Of Course’ Still Work With Him
“I think once in a while you got to punch a bully back in the nose,” the OpenAI CEO adds
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How Versant Is Letting Its ‘Entrepreneurial’ Spirit Take the Lead Post-Comcast
TheGrill 2026: Will McIntosh joined TheWrap’s Roger Cheng to discuss the “build vs. buy” equation of M&A in a time when AI is rapidly changing everything it touches
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Versant Completes 2026 Distribution Renewal Cycle With Verizon Deal
The multi-year agreement keeps MS NOW, CNBC, USA Network, Golf and other channels available to Fios customers
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RedBird Founder Says Majority of Paramount-WBD Merger Cost Savings Won’t Come From Jobs
“The notion that $6 billion of cost-related synergies means the firing of all these people is just completely antiquated,” says Gerry Cardinale
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Penske Media Lawsuit Against Google for AI Search Summaries of Articles Dismissed by Judge
“An ‘expectation’ that Google will send them search traffic … is not an agreement,” the ruling reads
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YouTube Head Warns Creators to ‘Not Sleep on Live,’ Noting That it ‘Supercharges’ Fandoms
TheGrill 2026: Kim Larson joined Whalar’s Jo Cronk and creator Olivia Ferney to discuss trends in the creator economy
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TV
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Tapping AI to Make Sense of Gen Z’s Pop Culture Obsessions
TheGrill 2026: Yves Bergquist introduces Geist, an agent that companies are using to decode the zeitgeist
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Tech
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AI Filmmakers Say Humans Need to Be Involved in Productions: ‘We Should Unplug Tilly Norwood’
TheGrill 2026: “As a director, these tools allow me to communicate so much more clearly with my crew,” says writer/director Eliza McNitt
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Movies
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Paramount’s Makan Delrahim, California AG Rob Bonta Get Candid on Warner Bros. Merger Settlement
TheGrill 2026: The two appeared (separately) on stage on the same day the antitrust settlement was officially approved
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Deals & M&A
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Ben Affleck Walks Back Matt Damon’s ‘Claim’ Netflix Demanded Plot Repetition in Dialogue
The Oscar winner clarifies the streaming giant didn’t give him any notes for his latest film “Animals”
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Paramount’s Makan Delrahim Says Threat to Move Out of California ‘Was Not a Bluff’
TheGrill 2026: The media giant’s chief legal officer unpacks how the settlement with 12 state AGs came together and addresses concerns around politics and CNN’s independence
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Deals & M&A
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Judge Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Settlement
The move clears the final hurdle for the $110 billion deal’s closing
