Just weeks after the Paramount’s controlling shareholder and Skydance scuttled their talks about a potential deal, the two media companies have tentatively agreed to a merger. There were several ...

New York — The merger between entertainment giant Paramount and media company Skydance is set to go ahead after Edgar Bronfman Jr. withdrew a competing offer. Bronfman, executive chairman of ...

Just when the $8.4-billion deal for David Ellison’s Skydance Media to buy Paramount Global was gliding toward the finish line, Shari Redstone’s roller-coaster sale took another sharp turn.

Billionaire entertainment executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. has bowed out of his long-shot bid to gain control of Paramount Global, clearing the way for David Ellison’s Skydance Media to claim the prize.

The billionaire (and former Warner Music Group CEO) made an offer to compete with the tentative deal made to merge the entertainment company with Skydance, owned by David Ellison (son of ...

Bronfman's retreat sets the stage for the entertainment giant to be sold to David Ellison's Skydance Media. The committee said that it had "contacted more than 50 third parties" to see if they ...

A week after proposing a $4.3 billion deal to acquire Paramount Global, Canadian media exec Edgar Bronfman Jr. has dropped his bid, making way for the company’s previously announced merger with ...

(Bloomberg) -- Producer David Ellison’s Skydance Media is set to become the new owner of Paramount Global after Seagram Co. heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. dropped out, ending one of the industry’s ...

A special committee of Paramount Global’s board set up to steer its M&A process has declared an end to the “go-shop” period in its pending Skydance Media merger and says the transaction will ...

SKYDANCE TAPS FORMER SCHATZ CHIEF: Skydance Media has hired its first federal lobbyists to help sell the movie studio’s bid to take over Hollywood and media giant Paramount Global. Latham ...