{"id":1041776,"date":"2026-10-08T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041776"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:20:57","slug":"paramount-completes-its-takeover-of-warner-bros-to-become-one-hollywood-giant-known-as-skydance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/paramount-completes-its-takeover-of-warner-bros-to-become-one-hollywood-giant-known-as-skydance\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount completes its takeover of Warner Bros to become one Hollywood giant known as Skydance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO: It&#8217;s official: Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood behemoth. <\/p>\n<p>The merger brings two of America&#8217;s oldest moviemaking studios together under a new name: Skydance. <\/p>\n<p>HBO Max, titles ranging from &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; to &#8220;Sinners&#8221; and networks such as CNN now also find themselves under the same roof as Paramount+, CBS and the likes of &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; and &#8220;The Godfather.&#8221; All are under the helm of billionaire David Ellison and his new co-CEO Ynon Kreiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO: It&#8217;s official: Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood behemoth. The merger brings two of America&#8217;s oldest moviemaking studios together under a new name: Skydance. HBO Max, titles ranging from &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; to &#8220;Sinners&#8221; and networks such as CNN now also find themselves under the same roof as Paramount+, CBS and the likes of &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; and &#8220;The Godfather.&#8221; All are under the helm of billionaire David Ellison and his new co-CEO Ynon Kreiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041778,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041776\/revisions\/1041778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}