The bare weapon The restart arrives from Paramount Global this week, its sales dealer, who also enters his own massive restart – a study in contrast.
The three Naked gun Films over 40 years were funny for a litani organizational debacles, which even divided “The Final insult”. When it was unveiled of $ 8 billion, the young CEO of Skydance, David Ellison, has commitment to success-one one who was apparently shared by the Trump government to support the mega deal.
In the Hollywood community itself, there is a debate about the feasibility to reinvent a slum braw studio, especially one of CBS, Comedy Central, MTV and other cable system. Ellison himself, 41 years old, promised enthusiastically that “technology changes every aspect of this company”. It will be a “studio in the cloud” that uses AI and other digital tools that create content faster and cheaper.
In tacit takeover of this role, Ellison avoided emulating David Zaslav's intensive pre-warning media takeover tour, in which he met in successive echelons of Hollywood's creative elite. The upcoming CEO of Warner Bros Discovery confirmed his commitment to filmmakers and her creativity, which symbolically even join the board of the American Kinematheque.
Although Ellison was personally involved in productions including the latest Mission: impossible Film, he has dominated the public stage for his billionaire father Larry Ellison – although it is not clear whether Dad has ever seen Naked gun.
Personal note: I enjoyed the Slapstick -Tick of the Sugar Brothers/Jim Abrahams films as always Naked gun And Airplane!But I wonder if Liam Neeson Frank Drebin JR, the unsuspecting police officer, can inhabit chaotic, who was immortalized by Leslie Nielsen. The new iteration is managed by Akiva Schaffer and replaces David Zucker, who is now 77 years old.
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The faces of Neeson and Nielsen are etched in the history of Hollywood – Neeson as a protagonist in Schindler's list And Nielsen, as the stone-faced captain of the Poseidon-but also the fate of becoming a police officer, still becomes a police officer.
The newly created Paramount Global could benefit from a few laughs at a moment, in which it has to implement around 2 billion US dollars of cost savings and restructuring. Much of this responsibility will be on the presence of Jeff Shell, a former president of NBCuniversal.
David Ellison himself has never managed a company of this size: Skydance has 1,300 employees compared to 18,000 from Paramount. He had neither experience in the fire messages nor with companies such as cozy and like 60 minutes or Put on the nation. Annoyed Showbiz institutions such as Stephen Colbert. Still found out how to revive television values in the morning or evening.
His position was anchored by Larry Ellison's impending friendship with Donald Trump. Or even through his reported conversations to acquire the free press, a right-wing organization that positions itself as an alternative to mainstream messages.
David Ellison
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David Ellison has opposed identification with top -class political or religious reasons. In fact, the family name also seems to be ambiguous; Was his origin more connected to Ellis Island than with generation roots?
The Ellison control of Paramount was made possible by the support of the daughter of Sumner Redstone, Shari, the paramount -controlling shareholder. The Redstone Control itself came from a wild deputy fight against Barry Diller, who easily fought Sumner's hunger to become a media tsar.
The Ellison victory at Paramount was itself the result of the FCC approval of the parachute, which was theoretically based on an ellison engagement for impartial journalism. And that was somehow encouraged by the crucial decision, 16 million US 60 minutes.
Sound complicated? It could also be for David Ellison to produce the introduction to Hollywood from his wish and star FlyboysA $ 60 million $ 60 million, in which a global box office of $ 17 million was collected in 2006. Ellison convinced his fate to change roles and to become a studio boss rather than the actor. With the further support of Redbird and investor Gerry Cardinale, Skydance achieved an assessment of around 4 billion US dollars before increasing his attack on larger prey.
Drebin, the Klutty cop in Naked gunOnce he explained to his wife: “Look, baby, I do what I do. Some boys make laces or laypersons. I earn my living.” So also David Ellison.