Paramount, which just completed an $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, is laying off 197 workers at studios in the Hollywood area — part of larger job cuts already underway in the region and elsewhere.

The company already laid off nearly 300 local workers Aug. 9 in anticipation of the merger’s completion two days before , according to records filed with the state’s Employment Development Department.

And in October, Paramount Skydance Corp. initiated plans to begin laying off half of 2,000 jobs to streamline the business — from which the 197 job cuts are being drawn.

In all, the 2,000 job reductions amounted to about 10% of the Paramount Skydance’s total workforce. But Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is looking for deeper cuts, and recently disclosed another round of 1,600 la

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