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Shari Redstone

Larry Ellison, David Ellison

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.”
Matthew Belloni • July 9, 2024
William D. Cohan • July 3, 2024
“Cautious But Tenacious”: The Shari Saga Continues
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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 • June 30, 2024
Advanced Zazonomics & Goldman Kremlinology
David Zaslav
More news and notes on the Wall Street and media industrial complex. Plus, a fascinating detail or two about Biden’s all-important family dinner tonight at Camp David.
Jeff Bezos
William D. Cohan • June 26, 2024
Bezos’ Rubber Room & Shari’s Plan B
News and notes on the dual obsessions of the Sconset set: whether Shari will reconsider the private equity pill and break up Paramount; and how Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis may be taking a page from Wall Street’s layoff playbook with their plan for a “third newsroom” at The Washington Post.
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William D. Cohan • 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.
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Matthew Belloni • 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.
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William D. Cohan • June 12, 2024
Shari-Kiri
Deal chatter around Shari Redstone’s shocking, and yet perhaps not entirely unsurprising, decision to kill the Skydance/RedBird acquisition at the thirteenth hour, and forgo billions in order to preserve her place at Sun Valley and table at Dan Tana’s. As one deal observer put it, “It’s why people shouldn’t inherit companies.”
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William D. Cohan • June 9, 2024
Shari’s Final Cherry & Elon’s $56B D-Day
Advice for David Ellison and Gerry Cardinale as they contemplate a last-minute wrinkle in their Paramount deal. Plus, notes on Elon’s comp and the GameStop roller coaster.
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William D. Cohan • 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?
Shari Restone is said to be unwilling to pull the trigger on the Skydance deal just yet, despite the Paramount shareholder meeting today.
Matthew Belloni • June 4, 2024
Shari’s Moment of Hard Truth
The sweetened Ellison/Skydance deal is Redstone’s if she wants it. So why is she wavering?