T he merger between Paramount and Skydance has finally been completed , with various roadblocks (including Stephen Colbert , apparently, as well as the related 60 Minutes settlement /bribery) cleared from the path of a new entity called Paramount, A Skydance Corporation.

It’s an appropriately franchise-y moniker for a merger between a major Hollywood studio and a company that made its bones as a constant financer of some of its biggest movie series. This ends (for now) years of speculation over what might be done with Paramount , a global conglomerate that was nonetheless considered on less sure footing than its fellow remaining big five studios, Disney, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. (Well, maybe not the recently embattled Warner Bros, though they seem to have gotten a major

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