When David Ellison grew up, he went to the cinema every Sunday with his mother and sister, Annapurna founder Megan Ellison. As an adult, he spent his wish for more than 15 years to operate a Legacy Hollywood studio. Now his dream has become a reality and all the eyes are on the young mogul to see if he can maintain a studio that is directed into the ground.
On Wednesday, Ellison, the ambitious and reserved son of the technical billionaire Larry Ellison, showed his new throne-metaphorically-and C-suite when he organized a meet-and-greet for journalists on the famous Melrose property in Hollywood, the home of Paramount Pictures. The meeting followed a similar event in New York on August 7, on the day when the 8 billion dollars was officially closed. The La presses focused more on the film and the television page.
At the event he called Top weapon 3The continuation of the large of 1.5 billion US dollars Top gun: MaverickA top priority in the studio and said that he would be cruise in Tom as long as the A-List-Star-wanted to tell ten films in Ellison's previous life at Skydance.
“One of our greatest priorities is the restoration of Paramount as number 1 for the most talented artists and filmmakers in the world,” said Ellison. “Great filmmakers make great films.”
Ellison, who said that he intended to make films for the cinemas, now has full control over a series of film franchise companies that he has already worked on at Skydance. Many of them have been resting on the large screen for years (Star Trek, Gi Joe) or have had difficulty finding their foot in recent years (((TerminatorPresent Transformers).
The co-film boss Josh Greenstein said that these franchise companies would be priority and hopes that the company would like to publish 15 films per year, and then check for 20. Star Trek And TransformersWith a surprising being First World War ZThe Brad Pitt Zombie feature 2013. He also showed an interest in both horrors (Paramount is the home A quiet place And Smile) as well as R-rated comedies. But he noticed that originals also had priority.
Star TrekThat has not been in cinemas since 2016 was largely monitored by Alex Kurtzman with a long list of Paramount+ series. The managers said that Hike Would rather be holistic instead of between different parts of the company such as film and television. “We will ensure that these talks take place so that we can do the best for the brand as a whole,” said Dana Goldberg, co-boss of the film.
On the Paramount+ side, Ellison recognized the meaning of Yellowstone Creator Taylor Sheridan on the health of streaming service. “He is literally a unique genius with a prefect's success balance,” said Ellison. “If we can do this into his home as long as he wants to tell stories, we want to do that.”
Ellison arrives in relation to the managers he selected, which he chose, to support the conglomerate of striking entertainment, which has been under the rule of the Sumner Redstone family for more than three decades. Instead of choosing outsiders, he relies on Hollywood veterans and studio leaders who have worked in every studio at some point.
The C-Suite comprises the former NBCUNIERSAL CEO Jeff Shell, the president of the entire paramount parachute jump. Andy Gordon, who led the Redbird Capital office in Los Angeles, who is the company of the company. Redbird, which provides financial capital to support the parachute jump, has recently employed Shell.
George Cheeks, who also headed the CBS business, will remain with the company as chairman of the TV media and add the company's cable television channels. Cindy Holland, the former TV leader of Netflix, will guide the streaming shops of New Paramount, including Paramount+ and Pluto. Holland has been a SkyDance consultant since last year.
Ellison's long-standing confidant and Chief Content Officer Goldberg, Chief Content Officer, became together with the former Sony Picturer-Exec, Greenstein to lead the new Paramount Pictures Studio as co-chair (they each have additional tasks). Goldberg said Paramount would emphasize family films and cite films like citation like Goonies And The night in the museum Franchise as a north star. “We'll run on these films,” she said.
Holland, Greenstein and Goldberg were not at the New York Press Event, so on Wednesday there was the first chance to hear from them. It is a return for Greenstein. Before Sony he headed marketing and sales at Paramount, where Ellison's parachute jump had a co-producing and cofinancing deal. He, Ellison and Goldberg, closed a close friendship.
Ellison set up a number of other topics and made speculation that he was interested in acquiring Tikok, and refused to discuss details about new voices that he might want to bring in CBS News. He also noticed that he intended to hold on to bet after speculating that the previous Paramount regime flirted with the sale.
As he repeated repeatedly, Ellison emphasized that technological increases in efficiency will have the prevailing priority in the coming years.
“Legacy media swam into the middle of the lake, but was not sure how to get to the other side. Some people wanted to go back and burn the boats,” said Ellison, adding that he “wanted to get to the other side of the lake”.