No surprise but David Ellison and team are exploring a sale of National Amusements , the movie theater chain that launched the Redstone family media empire and was run in its heyday, quite successfully, by Shari Redstone .

The asset sat alongside the Redstone’s stake in Paramount inside NAI, the family’s holding company. Paramount’s merger with Skydance closed today and the first step was Skydance acquiring NAI from Redstone for $2.4 billion, inheriting the Norwood, Massachusetts-based exhibitor along with the controlling interest in Paramount Global.

The future of National Amusements has been a question mark but it’s on the block. New Paramount President Jeff Shell said on the sidelines of a press event today that interest is “robust.”

The chain operates 759 screens in the

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