Sony Makes Firm Paramount Bid

Sony Makes Firm Paramount Bid

We have been talking about it for weeks. Paramount and Skydance are deep into negotiations about Skydance taking control. However the exclusivity window has closed, so it is open season. Sony is straight out of the gate. The Wall Street Journal says Sony Pictures...
Sony Makes Firm Paramount Bid

Paramount Chief To Exit This Morning?

The entire industry has been braced for merger and acquisition activity lately, and as we have reported recently here at Last Movie Outpost, Paramount was a prime candidate. Well, the path to boardroom harmony is rarely smooth. According to reports in both The Wall...
Sony Makes Firm Paramount Bid

Is Sony Circling Paramount?

According to a report in The New York Times, Sony Pictures Entertainment and investment firm Apollo Global Management are teaming up to look at a joint bid to acquire Paramount. They are in discussions, but the report says an official bid has not been tabled ...
THE DEPARTMENT Gets A New Director

THE DEPARTMENT Gets A New Director

The Department is based on the French smash-hit TV show Le Bureau des Legendes and is being spun up by Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios in conjunction with 101 Studios. The show landed a straight-to-series order a year ago for Paramount+. The original was a spy...
Sony Makes Firm Paramount Bid

Paramount To Focus On Costs

’tis the season of earnings calls, full-year results, analyst circle jerks, and big, fat bonuses. So of course we are going to join in. Our earnings are nothing, our full-year results are limited to repetitive strain injury, there has been zero interest from...