2026-02-13
27 分钟This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shamita Basu.
Today, how one of the world's wealthiest families is changing Hollywood.
Right now,
some of the most valuable movies and TV shows ever made are at the center of an ownership battle.
Two companies, Paramount Skydance and Netflix,
are fighting for control of Warner Brothers Discovery,
the studio that owns HBO, CNN, and a trove of classic films.
It's just the latest sign that consolidations are reshaping Hollywood,
changing what we watch, how we watch it, and how much we pay.
They obviously, at a basic level,
stand to gain one of the most iconic companies in Hollywood history.
That's Reeves Weidemann, a features writer for New York Magazine.
He recently profiled David Ellison,
the CEO of Paramount Skydance and one of the key players in this fight for a huge piece of the media landscape.
David is also the son of Larry Ellison,
co-founder and longtime CEO of the tech company Oracle and one of the richest people in the world.
There is no way to separate David Ellison's rise in Hollywood from his father and the impact his father has had on his career.
Funding his efforts in Hollywood basically throughout the past 20 years from Skydance,
the company he ran and more recently to buying Paramount and now trying to buy Warner Brothers.