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October 16, 2026
Netflix Is Profitable and Still Growing. Why Did It Just Make a Huge Round of Layoffs and Oust Its Top Content Exec?
In 2025, Netflix notched a net profit of $11 billion on a 16% increase in revenue, to $46.6 billion. It expects revenue growth to cool off this year, projecting an increase of 13%-14%, while the st...
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October 15, 2026
Skydance’s Market Value Is Currently Less Than Half What Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Combined Were Worth
David Ellison’s freshly formed Skydance Corp. is off to a rocky start on Wall Street. He won Warner Bros. Discovery after a yearlong battle. But investors, at this point, appear to believe he wildl...
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October 15, 2026
Comcast Donated $7.5 Million for Donald Trump’s Lavish New White House Ballroom
Comcast forked out $7.5 million to help fund President Donald Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot gold-plated ballroom and event space, with the company among the 57 corporate donors to the project. Tot...
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October 15, 2026
CAA, WME and UTA Lead Coalition Pushing for Law to Force Streamers to Spend Half Their Content Budgets on Indie Productions
In a rare team-up of big Hollywood talent agencies, CAA, UTA and WME have joined forces as founding members of the American Entertainment Alliance — which among other things wants U.S. legislation ...
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October 15, 2026
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Coming Soon to Toca Boca World Gaming App
Game on, Huntr/x fans! You’ll soon be able to unleash your inner “KPop Demon Hunters” idol on the Toca Boca World storytelling gaming app for kids, through an exclusive in-game collab with Netflix ...
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October 14, 2026
Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Deal Approved by Shareholders of Both Companies
In an expected development, shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku voted to approve Fox’s $22 billion acquisition of the streaming-video platform company. At separate special meetings of sharehol...
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October 14, 2026
Skydance Shares Skid Down 25% After Company Issues 471 Million Stock Warrants to Paramount Investors
Shares of Skydance Corp., formed through the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, fell as much as 25% in trading Wednesday. The drop came as the Skydance, led by chairman and CEO David E...
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October 13, 2026
Ari Emanuel and Ben Persky’s Podcast ‘Rushmore’ Returns for Season 2 With Guests Including Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld
Ari Emanuel, executive chairman of WME Group and exec chair and CEO of TKO Group, is back to debate GOATs with his friend and music manager Ben Persky — with a parade of high-profile guests — in a ...
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October 13, 2026
Hillary Clinton to Co-Host Podcast on 2026 Midterm Elections With Kara Swisher for Vox Media, Owned by James Murdoch
Hillary Clinton will get behind the podcasting mic in “High Stakes,” where the former Secretary of State will weigh in on the 2026 U.S. midterm elections in a new limited series with journalist Kar...
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October 13, 2026
Ex-HBO Max and Legendary Execs Launch Twin Pines Entertainment, Studio Focused on Pro-Sports Movies and Series for America’s ‘Overlooked’ Heartland
The founders of Twin Pines Entertainment see an opportunity to make movies and TV shows geared around professional sports teams aimed at the millions of people in America’s heartland — which they a...
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October 13, 2026
Discovery+, Now Owned by Skydance, Hikes Prices Effective Immediately
Discovery+ is raising prices for U.S. customers, coming one week after Paramount closed its megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery to form Skydance Corp. Starting Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, the Discov...
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October 12, 2026
What Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Reveals About Media’s Future (Guest Column)
Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to form Skydance Corp., which pushes the combined company to second place in Nielsen’s U.S. TV audience share and brings together two majo...
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October 12, 2026
Natalie Morales Joins Flow Space Women’s Health Summit in L.A.
Natalie Morales, award-winning journalist and TV personality, is joining the lineup of SHE Media’s Flow Space Women’s Health Summit this week. The Flow Space Women’s Health Summit will be held Thur...
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October 9, 2026
Trump Taps ‘Devoted Fan’ Katie Zacharia, a Fox News and CNN Commentator, as White House Press Secretary
President Donald Trump announced that he’s picked Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who has regularly appeared on Fox News, CNN and Newsmax, to be the new White House press secretary. She ...
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October 9, 2026
DC Comics Now Sits Within Skydance Products & Publishing Division Under Josh Silverman, Alongside Warner Bros. and Paramount Consumer Products Groups
The new Skydance, formed from the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, has consolidated its publishing and consumer-products teams into one group — Skydance Products & Publishing — l...
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October 9, 2026
Netflix Gearing Up to Lay Off 5% of Workforce: Report
Netflix is planning a major round of layoffs coming as soon as next week that would cut about 5% of its headcount, according to a new report. The streaming giant plans a significant restructuring t...
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October 8, 2026
David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav is out of a job. But he’s getting a prodigious sum of $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, the company he fused together and led for more than four years before it agreed ...
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October 8, 2026
Kevin MacLellan, Paramount’s Head of Global Content Distribution and International, Is Leaving Skydance Post-Merger
Kevin MacLellan, the veteran media exec who led Paramount’s global content distribution and international networks, is departing the newly merged Skydance Corp., Variety has learned. The larger int...
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October 6, 2026
Skydance Adds Bobby Kotick and Laurene Powell Jobs to Board, Taps Tony Blair as Adviser
Skydance Corp., formed from the megamerger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is bringing new blood to its board of directors. On Tuesday, the company announced that Laurene Powell Jobs, foun...
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October 6, 2026
Donald Trump Praises Newly Merged Paramount-Warner Bros.: ‘They’re Terrific People, and It’s Gonna Be a Great Company’
President Donald Trump, who is friendly with David Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, gave a big thumbs-up to Paramount’s megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery, which closed earlier Tuesday to...
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October 6, 2026
Skydance Stock Drops 2.7% on First Day of Trading After Paramount-WBD Merger Close
David Ellison said the vision behind Skydance Corp., formed Tuesday by the closing of the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, was to “create a stronger competitor” and build a company that “em...
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October 5, 2026
David Zaslav Bids Farewell to Warner Bros. Employees in Video on Eve of Skydance Merger Close: ‘It’s Been a Great Honor to Be Alongside All of You’
David Zaslav, four and a half years after closing the debt-burdened deal that formed Warner Bros. Discovery, is bidding farewell to the company’s employees as it is about to get swallowed up by Dav...
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October 5, 2026
David Ellison Names Skydance Corp.’s New Leadership Team for Movies, TV, Streaming and More
David Ellison, on the eve of officially closing the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger to form Skydance Corp., has announced his picks for the senior execs to run his new company. The new lead...
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October 3, 2026
Skydance Blasts Off: Can David Ellison Make Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Fly?
David Ellison has emerged victorious. And he’s boldly — or arrogantly, if you prefer — decided to name the entertainment giant that he’s bolted together Skydance Corp., nodding to the original name...
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October 2, 2026
New Name of Paramount-Warner Bros. Unveiled: Skydance
The soon-to-merge Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery officially has a name: It’s simply going to be “Skydance,” according to chairman and CEO David Ellison. In the end, Ellison picked the name of his...
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October 1, 2026
Ynon Kreiz, as Co-CEO of Paramount, to Receive Pay Package Worth More Than $46.5 Million
Ynon Kreiz, as David Ellison’s right-hand man at the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, is getting a big pay bump over his pay package as CEO of Mattel. Kreiz, 61, signed an initial five-year...
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September 30, 2026
David Ellison Taps Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz to Be Co-CEO of Merged Paramount-Warner Bros.
Ynon Kreiz, who is stepping down as CEO of Mattel after eight years, will join David Ellison’s Paramount — which is expected to close its mega-merger with Warner Bros. Discovery on Oct. 6 — as co-C...
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September 30, 2026
Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Set to Close Next Week After Judge OKs Settlement With State AGs
Paramount chief David Ellison, after a fierce year-long battle, is finally about to get his hands on Warner Bros. Discovery — in the most expensive takeover in Hollywood history. On Wednesday, U.S....
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September 29, 2026
White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election
President Donald Trump has routinely — and falsely — claimed that he won the 2020 election, which was actually won by Joe Biden. But the new AI-powered America.gov website, which Trump unveiled Tue...
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September 29, 2026
Disney Makes More Job Cuts, Laying Off a Few Hundred Employees
Disney continues to cut heads: The media company is laying off a few hundred employees across multiple departments, Variety has confirmed. The layoffs, the third round this year under recently appo...
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