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Skydance, with backers including the Ellison family and RedBird, agreed to acquire Paramount parent National Amusements from the Redstone family and merge the storied media company with his production firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

Paramount’s overtures to Warner Discovery come less than three months after David Ellison’s Skydance Media took control of the company from Shari Redstone’s National Amusements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

The Redstone shares will pass to Larry Ellison and RedBird, which will hold a minority stake in National Amusements.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

The family is waiting for the cash from the sale of Paramount and National Amusements to the Ellisons and RedBird, a private equity firm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

He is perfect Master of military Architecture, and has great Talents for War, which he cultivates to such a degree that his very Amusements are the Study of what a great Captain ought to know.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von