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# Ellison: Paramount-WBD merger is Hollywood’s answer to Big Tech
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/ellison-paramount-wbd-merger-is-hollywoods-answer-to-big-tech/
- Published: 2026-10-08T22:59:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T00:07:10.000Z
- Description: Deadline’s Jill Goldsmith reports that Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger fixes Hollywood’s failure to pivot when big tech entered media a decade ago.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Streaming, Jill Goldsmith, Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery and becomes Skydance

**Why it matters.** Rivals now face a combined studio-streamer with scale and tech ambitions pitched explicitly as a counterweight to Silicon Valley’s reach into media.

*Signal from* [*deadline.com*](https://deadline.com/?ref=medianexis.com) *·* [*Jill Goldsmith*](https://www.medianexis.com/tag/by-jill-goldsmith/) *·* [*read the original*](https://deadline.com/2026/10/david-ellison-skydance-solution-big-tech-media-incursion-1237149875/?ref=medianexis.com)*.*