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Skydance’s first week: HBO spending spree meets $80 billion debt alarm

The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that Casey Bloys is opening HBO’s checkbook with a new deal even as David Ellison’s $80 billion debt spooks Wall Street, while new film chiefs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein inherit an impossible movie math problem.

Why it matters. Bloys’ aggressive HBO spending while Skydance carries heavy debt puts pressure on the new combined company to prove its three-studio TV structure can survive.

Signal from The Ankler · Alison Brower · read the original.

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