Skydance Media

He's got the Tom Cruise movies.

But when you look at Skydance, if you take away the Tom Cruise movies, which I know is just hand-waving away giant hit movies.

Yeah, it's sort of like being like, well, with Disney, take away Pixar.

But I get what you're talking about.

Yeah, I mean, and also if you would have, if those Mission

Impossible movies

hadn't been with Skydance, they would have been with another company and been just as successful.

Exactly.

They say, Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Brothers' discovery.

Remember, Paramount now was bought by Skydance.

Skydance is Larry Ellison's son, David Ellison's company.

So Paramount... is now buying Warner Brothers for $110 billion.

So it's a lot of money, right? Like people just don't have this kind of cash hanging around.

Paramount won the bidding war.

Of course, they had recently, Skydance had bought Paramount.

And so now they were buying Warner Brothers and HBO Discovery.

So it felt like they were definitely going to be a bit of a monopoly, like just a gigantic company owning so many different subsidies.

Who, by the way, that ketamine addict, you know, you really need to up your dose, Leon.

That ketamine addict is now floating the idea that if the Paramount Warner Brothers deal goes through, Skydance may bring Leon Scum into the deal and make him a part owner.

Paramount executives, which means, you know, the Ellison sleazebags and their lick spittles, have been talking about asking Leon Scum, Space Nazi, to dump some gazillions into the company.

That all came out via Rohan Goswami in Semaphore today.

There might be one more.

But the Skydance Netflix deal, they've parted ways.

Skydance is no longer doing their output deal with Netflix.

They're moving on to do whatever they're going to do post-merger and everything else.

But like... all of the Skydance films kind of have a sameness to them.

And this happens a lot at studios.

I mean, DreamWorks for a long period of time had sort of a sameness to their style, and they've really tried to vary that up.

I happen to like the Disney house style, but it is undeniable that Disney movies also lately have had a little bit of a sameness to the way the characters are designed.

Yes.

So Paramount, P. Sky, Paramount Sky Dance.

Yes.

Won their battle to buy Warner Brothers Discovery over Netflix.

Yeah.

Yeah, you have to drop the Discovery and the Skydance, though, to make that one work.

Virtual actor Tilly Norwood gave an interview with Piers Morgan and in the middle of the interview switched suddenly to Cantonese, at which point Piers Morgan said, you seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason.

Why did you do that? And Norwood replied, oh, my apologies.

That is really inconvenient, and so now the regime is flailing because they didn't consolidate power fast enough.

Ben Guyatt ties this current attempt at silence and noise with the looming merger between Paramount's Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, a further conglomeration of the media landscape into the hands of a billionaire family that Trump has in his back pocket.

She writes, "...I have studied propaganda for decades, including authoring a book on Italian fascist propaganda cinema, and I can tell you that a merger that would create a propaganda megastructure encompassing entertainment content and news would be devastatingly effective as a tool for democratic destruction." She points to former Hungarian president Viktor Orbán, who so effectively captured the media that fully 85% of it was aligned with his regime.

The only way Peter Magyar was able to defeat him in the most recent election was because he spent two years in the Hungarian countryside touring rural villages to spread his message and bypass that media capture.