Gerry Cardinale
Kim Masters
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June 30, 2025
Can Matt ’n’ Ben’s Company Scale Beyond Matt ’n’ Ben?
Amid the content recession and C-suite shake-ups, Artists Equity battles to live up to its quixotic mission of giving creatives more freedom and offering cast and crew a piece of the profit. With Damon’s wife moving into a leadership role and a new Sony deal, will the company have to change with the times, too?
William D. Cohan
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July 10, 2024
The Shari Orchard
An assessment of the dynastic saga, the heavy NAI carrying costs, the Ellison anointment, and simultaneous challenge of growing the business while eliminating $2 billion in carrying costs. “It’s a huge commitment,” Gerry Cardinale, the founder of RedBird Capital, told me on Tuesday.
Matthew Belloni
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July 9, 2024
Money Wins Paramount
Skydance’s David Ellison reveals plans for the storied studio as he leverages his father’s Oracle fortune and the motivation to reinvent a dying company amid questions about his promised tech fixes: “This is what I wanna do for the rest of my life.”
William D. Cohan
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July 3, 2024
“Cautious But Tenacious”: The Shari Saga Continues
The rebooted Ellison/Paramount deal would be a complicated arrangement with several moving parts, but it appears to be one that Shari Redstone could live with—even if everything could still go wrong.
William D. Cohan
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June 19, 2024
A Paramount Post-Postmortem
Charting the mounting animosities among all the interested parties—Shari, Skydance and RedBird, the special committee, Gabelli—after the endless Paramount saga capsized in an instant.
Matthew Belloni
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June 14, 2024
Shari Redstone Hasn’t Solved Her Biggest Problem: Shari Redstone
By putting Paramount up for sale, negotiating publicly for six months, and nuking a fully negotiated deal at the goal line, Shari has likely set the company on a downward spiral of chaos and uncertainty—one her father might have foreseen.
William D. Cohan
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June 5, 2024
The Shari Soap Opera’s Final Twist
Unimaginably, Shari Redstone has reintroduced a dealpoint that threatens to nuke the Paramount sale. Will Gerry and Ellison blink? And will Mario Gabelli, the aggrieved longtime investor, finally wet his beak?
William D. Cohan
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June 2, 2024
Shari and the Jeffs
News, notes, ruminations, and tea-leaf decoding regarding the final throes of the Paramount M&A saga.
William D. Cohan
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May 15, 2024
Shari’s Ticking Clock
More news and notes from inside the Paramount quiet period. “We’re running out of things to delay this on,” shared one participant in the process.