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William D. Cohan • November 6, 2024

The Secret History of the Paramount Deal

What the merger’s 600-page proxy filing reveals about who wanted Paramount (Zaz! Apollo! The mysterious “Party F”!) and how they managed to lose to David Ellison’s Skydance.
Matthew Belloni • April 30, 2024
Not Great, Bob Bakish!
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A corporate eulogy for a Redstone yes-man as Shari finally turns on the guy she plucked from obscurity and empowered through Paramount’s troubled foray into the streaming wars, until he quietly sought to sabotage her planned sale to Skydance.
William D. Cohan • April 28, 2024
One Flew Over the RedBird Nest
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The looming apparent ouster of Bob Bakish, which I previewed long ago, has the RedBird and Ellison group inching ahead of Apollo in the Paramount Global foot race—at least for now.
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William D. Cohan • March 24, 2024
Shari’s Apollo Landing & Trump Coupon Murmurs
News and notes on the latest intrigue among the Sconset set: the next steps in the Apollo-Paramount foreplay and whether Donald Trump can get his money.
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Matthew Belloni • March 22, 2024
Shari’s Choice: The Legendary Angle
The latest bid for Paramount’s “film and TV studio” isn’t just from Apollo, but also Legendary Entertainment—a previously undisclosed element that may portend how the Redstone saga eventually ends.
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William D. Cohan • March 17, 2024
Imagining the Apollo-Paramount Arranged Marriage
Apollo is certainly not the suitor that Shari Redstone dreamed about. But is it the best she can get? And what “value” might they “extract” from the family empire?
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Julia Alexander • February 6, 2024
Paramount+’s Existential Questions
Sure, the streaming home of the Super Bowl, now being circled by numerous potential acquirers, has reined in its ambitions—decreasing spending and licensing its best content to its competitors. But the real challenge for Par+ comes down to its technology.
The task will be for Bob Bakish to sell Shari on this or another deal, all while Shari carries on her own talks for NAI.
Matthew Belloni • December 22, 2023
Warners, Paramount, and the Allure of Mutual Desperation
Notes on Zaslav’s leaked meeting with Bakish, the deal chatter choreography, and the Comcast of it all.
Who would be a logical buyer, if anyone, of the slimmed-down Paramount Global?
William D. Cohan • August 9, 2023
Are You There, Aryeh? It’s Me, Shari…
Now that S&S is coming off the books, and with BET likely next, what might a market look like for a deal-fit, debt-trimmed Paramount Global?
It’s not clear what our friend Warren was thinking when he invested in what is now known as Paramount Global.
William D. Cohan • May 7, 2023
A Warren-Shari Mystery & Ackman’s Icahnfreude
News and notes on the rumblings inside Wall Street C-suites, the Sconset set, and the Gin Lane mafia: the Berkshire Hathaway-Paramount mystery, a Goldman curiosity, and the latest Icahn controversy.