{"id":266647,"date":"2026-10-02T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/skydance-is-here-the-umbrella-company-for-wb-paramount-dc-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:03:46","slug":"skydance-is-here-the-umbrella-company-for-wb-paramount-dc-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/skydance-is-here-the-umbrella-company-for-wb-paramount-dc-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydance is here &#8211; the umbrella company for WB\/Paramount\/DC and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The official launch video for the new Warner Bros\/Paramount merged company \u2014 Skydance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/unGWjAmP1F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/unGWjAmP1F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2106011417438527848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Now that the WB\/Paramount merger is officially going through, likely next week&#8230;..its been announced that Skydance Media will be used to encompass everything that is getting merged into the company.<\/p>\n<p>-The merger will combine HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services; and TV channels including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, Food Network and more. The new company\u2019s entertainment franchises will span Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d and other HBO hits, the DC Universe, \u201cYellowstone,\u201d \u201cMission: Impossible,\u201d \u201cTop Gun\u201d and the Nickelodeon kids\u2019 empire.<\/p>\n<p>-For now WB and Paramount will remain separate along with their streaming services (similar to Disney+ and Hulu)<\/p>\n<p>-Skydance will now be $80 billion in debt while Paramount is issuing about $42.4 billion in bonds and is additionally taking out $8.5 billion and \u20ac850 million in new loans to help fund the Warner Bros. deal and repay existing debt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2106011417438527848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source <\/a><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132952708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official launch video for the new Warner Bros\/Paramount merged company \u2014 Skydance. pic.twitter.com\/unGWjAmP1F \u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 2, 2026 -Now that the WB\/Paramount merger is officially going through, likely next week&#8230;..its been announced that Skydance Media will be used to encompass everything that is getting merged into the company. -The merger will combine HBO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}