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Ellison: Paramount-WBD merger is Hollywood’s answer to Big Tech

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.

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.

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