David Ellison found himself under a new spotlight in 2025 upon his company Skydance Media’s merger with Paramount. Now known as Paramount Skydance, the film producer-turned-exec made headlines at the end of the year when he launched a hostile takeover of Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

“We’re really here to finish what we started,” David said during a December 2025 appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street , just days after Netflix announced its acquisition of Warner Bros . “We put the company in play,” the exec added. “We’re sitting on Wall Street, where cash is still king. We are offering shareholders $17.6 billion more cash than the deal they currently have signed up with Netflix, and we believe when they see what it is currently in our offer that that’s what the

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