News about David Ellison

David Ellison's production company Skydance Media is one of the leading contenders to acquire the floundering entertainment giant Paramount Global, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sony and Apollo Global are next in line and could be offering $26 billion.

Warner Bros. After the final agreement raised questions on Wall Street and sent both companies' stock pluming, Discovery is believed to have suspended merger talks with Paraphrasedoutput. The acquisition talks had been suspended, several months after news of the potential mega-merger first appeared, according to sources familiar with the situation. Skydance Media, David Ellison's film and TV studio, is still doing due diligence on a proposed merger with Paramount Global, according to two of the people.

A man who stabbed three young girls in a cornfield outside of Indianapolis nearly fifty years ago has finally identified the perpetrator. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department held a press conference on Thursday, announcing a major breakthrough in the case of kidnap victims Kandice Smith, Sheri Rottler Tricks, and Kathie Rottler. When Kandice was 13, Sheri was 11, and Kathie was 14 years old, the three were hitchhiking outside Indianapolis when they were wildly and brutally assaulted by an unknown assassination. All three girls survived, but they sustained serious stab wounds. And for 48 years, police didn't know who attacked them — until now.

Shari Redstone, 69, is in talks to sell a majority stake in National Amusements, the parent company to the $30 billion media conglomerate she inherited from her late father Sumner Redstone. Redstone, according to the WSJ, is more focused on non-media pursuits, including combating antisemitism and spending more time with family at her new Caribbean mansion she's built. Redstone has spoken with Skydance Media Chief Executive David Ellison and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick about a potential acquisition in recent weeks, according to the outlet.