What I’m Hearing: Paramount Control, Costner’s Debacle & Amal Clooney’s Revenge

Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, a little earlier tonight because I’m retraumatizing myself with childhood flying cow memories at the Twisters L.A. premiere. My media-savvy colleague Dylan Byers is in Idaho chronicling the Sun Valley buzz (and David Zaslav’s ridiculous bandana cravat
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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, a little earlier tonight because I’m retraumatizing myself with childhood flying cow memories at the Twisters L.A. premiere.

My media-savvy colleague Dylan Byers is in Idaho chronicling the Sun Valley buzz (and David Zaslav’s ridiculous bandana cravat), so sign up for his In the Room private email here. Meanwhile, I asked him for a little update, and he emailed:

“Zaslav made waves here yesterday when he told reporters he was less interested in the winner of the presidential election than whether they were friendly to business interests: ‘We just need an opportunity for deregulation, so companies can consolidate and do what we need to to be even better.’ I’ve since learned that the remark is actually part of a broader Zaz campaign to...

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Ellison’s Hands-On, Arm’s-Length Paramount Preview

Skydance’s leader told me he’ll be involved in the decisions at Paramount Global during the deal-review process “within all the regulatory bounds we have,” and that he’ll maintain “the appropriate seat at the tables.” But what does that actually mean in practice?

MATTHEW BELLONI

Paramount released the Gladiator II trailer on Tuesday, just as the studio’s own conquerors were in a conference room across town discussing the twilight of the Roman—sorry, Redstone—empire. In their public comments, including to me on Monday, David Ellison and his financial partner Gerry Cardinale have been purposely vague about their exact plans for New Paramount, instead painting on a thick coat of tech platitudes over the massive challenges facing...

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FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT

Paramount Open Questions

Gerry Cardinale breaks down the pent-up post-deal energy.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Gwyneth’s Retail Gambit

Scooping Goop’s latest brick-and-mortar play.

RACHEL STRUGATZ

Stephanopoulosgate

Dissecting the fresh drama feeding the Biden media circus.

DYLAN BYERS

Pelosi Backpedals

Deciphering what Nancy Pelosi was really saying on MSNBC.

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