{"id":94934,"date":"2025-07-26T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94934\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:18:14","slug":"all-the-ip-david-ellisons-skydance-gets-in-paramount-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94934\/","title":{"rendered":"All the IP David Ellison’s Skydance Gets in Paramount Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNow that David Ellison<\/a>\u2019s Skydance<\/a> has secured the keys to Paramount Global<\/a>, what toys await him inside the company\u2019s intellectual property chest?<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a nail-biting federal approval process that inspired backlash, Ellison and team have not only secured a legacy distributor, but a trove of content in various stages of production and development.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the new Skydance-Paramount team prepares to set leadership (Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy is already out<\/a>; Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins is expected to depart imminently; CBS honcho George Cheeks is the only leader pegged to stay with the new team), here\u2019s what they\u2019ve got on the board:<\/p>\n

\n\tFilm
<\/strong>Robbins became president and CEO of Paramount Pictures in 2021, following a fraught tenure led by veteran movie executive Jim Gianopulos. Robbins, a teen star who became a powerful family content executive at Nickelodeon, helped boost the volume of original film production and acquisitions at Paramount \u2013 a studio that had become known over the past two decades for minimal output compared to its rivals.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fruits of Team Robbins will continue to manifest in a busy Q4. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson\u2019s \u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d reboot, written and directed by The Lonely Island mastermind Akiva Schaffer, hits theaters next week. In October, director Derek Cianfrance will mount his crime dramedy \u201cRoofman\u201d starring Channing Tatum and Kristen Dunst, followed by the Colleen Hoover book adaptation \u201cRegretting You\u201d with Alison Willians and Dave Franco.<\/p>\n

\n\tNovember will see the release of a franchise hopeful starring Hollywood golden boy Glen Powell, \u201cThe Running Man.\u201d The studio will close out the year with \u201cThe SpongeBob Movie: The Search for SquarePants,\u201d to hit in the family-heavy Christmas holiday window.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGhostface in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group\u2019s \u201cScream VI.\u201d \u00a9 2022 Paramount Pictures. Ghost Face is a Registered Trademark of Fun World Div., Easter Unlimited, Inc. \u00a91999. All Rights Reserved.\u201d. Ghost Face is a Registered Trademark of Fun World Div., Easter Unlimited, Inc. \u00a91999. All Rights Reserved.\u201d
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\n\tThere\u2019s more IP on deck for 2026, including: \u201cScream 7,\u201d a highly anticipated return to the slasher canon produced with Spyglass Media Group, in February; an original swing with an untitled feature from Trey Parker, Matt Stone, rapper Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free for March; a revival of the surprisingly sticky spoof series \u201cScary Movie\u201d for June; and a new feature in Robbins\u2019 pride-and-joy Paw Patrol franchise for July.<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio insiders are expecting an impressive performance from \u201cThe Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender,\u201d an animated actioner featuring the voices of Dave Bautista and Steven Yeun; and equal excitement for new films based on Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Angry Birds mobile game and another sequel in the \u201cMeet the Parents\u201d universe with Ben Stiller and Ariana Grande. At the top of 2027, Paramount will court awards with \u2018Children of Blood and Bone,\u201d Gina Prince-Bythewood\u2019s fantasy epic featuring Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba and Viola Davis.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount is in early development for two of its most lucrative film franchises \u2013 the worlds of Transformers and Star Trek. It\u2019s unclear if \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d is on deck for a reboot.<\/p>\n

\n\tTelevision<\/strong>
Ellison has previously said that high on his list for the merged Skydance-Paramount was a tech revolution inside the company \u2013 including its streaming operations, interface and content model. Paramount Global\u2019s hit shows are spread wide across verticals like linear networks and streaming. Breaking it down by brand: \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS<\/strong>
<\/strong>The stalwart network, a lightning rod in the Skydance Paramount deal for several reasons, has plenty going for it despite the overall decline of linear TV viewership. Flagship shows with spinoffs like \u201cNCIS\u201d and \u201cFBI\u201d still resonate across the country. Comedies like \u201cGhosts\u201d and \u201cGeorgie & Mandy\u2019s First Marriage\u201d are two of the most-watched comedies out there<\/a>, while drama \u201cTracker\u201d is one of the most-watched shows period. Reality competitions like \u201cSurvivor,\u201d \u201cBig Brother,\u201d and \u201cThe Amazing Race\u201d also still draw large audiences even this far into their respective runs. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u201cSurvivor: David vs. Goliath\u201d
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\n\tParamount+<\/strong>
It might as well be called Taylor Sheridan+ at this point, with the prolific creator currently overseeing shows like \u201cLandman,\u201d \u201cLioness,\u201d \u201cTulsa King\u201d and \u201cMayor of Kingstown\u201d at the streamer under his expansive deal with Paramount Global. The \u201cYellowstone\u201d prequel \u201c1944\u201d is in the works (following \u201c1883\u201d and \u201c1923\u201d), as well as a new spinoff of \u201cYellowstone\u201d starring Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly as Rip and Beth and a spinoff of \u201cTulsa King\u201d starring Samuel L. Jackson<\/a>. Star Trek also has business at the streamer, with the shows \u201cStrange New Worlds\u201d and the forthcoming \u201cStarfleet Academy.\u201d \u201cStrange New Worlds\u201d is currently airing its third season and has been renewed through a fifth and final season<\/a>. \u201cStarfleet Academy\u201d has been renewed through Season 2.<\/a> Whether or not the Star Trek TV universe will continue in its current iteration beyond these two shows remains to be seen. <\/p>\n

\n\tNickelodeon<\/strong>
This unit looks pretty similar to the film studio when it comes to multi-quadrant offerings, including \u201cSpongebob SquarePants\u201d and the animated \u201cAvatar\u201d content.<\/p>\n

\n\tShowtime<\/strong>
Once a hotbed of prestige drama, Showtime is down to (well-liked) offshoots of \u201cDexter,\u201d a prequel (\u201cDexter: Original Sin\u201d) and a sequel (\u201cDexter: Resurrection\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\tComedy Central<\/strong>
\u201cSouth Park,\u201d so valuable that Paramount Global trudged through a reported swamp of contention and hostility to secure another deal with its creators<\/a>, rules the roost. There\u2019s also \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d and the revival of Mike Judge\u2019s \u201cBeavis & Butthead,\u201d which is moving to Comedy Central for its third season starting in September<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tSkydance is set to take full control of Paramount Global on August 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that David Ellison\u2019s Skydance has secured the keys to Paramount Global, what toys await him inside the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,32129,16275,26873,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-94934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-david-ellison","10":"tag-paramount-global","11":"tag-skydance","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114921387130709885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}