Paramount Skydance completes roughly $111 billion Warner Bros. merger
Paramount Skydance closed its roughly $111 billion merger with Warner Bros., and film chiefs Pamela Abdy and Mike De Luca left the studio.
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Paramount Skydance completed its merger with Warner Bros. in early October 2026, in a deal valued at roughly $111 billion. The transaction brought together two of Hollywood's oldest studios, along with their film and television operations, under the control of Skydance chief David Ellison.
The closing was followed by a leadership overhaul at the Warner film division. Pamela Abdy and Mike De Luca, who ran the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, left as the deal closed. Their departure had been widely reported in the days before. Oversight of film labels at the combined company went to Skydance executives, including Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein.
The exits mattered because Abdy and De Luca had led Warner's film output since 2022 and overseen a slate of commercially and critically prominent releases. Their removal signalled that the new owners intended to reshape creative leadership, and it set the stage for later public reaction from the departing executives.
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