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Elon Musk aurait investi environ un milliard de dollars (environ 890 millions d'euros) dans Skydance, selon le média américain Semafor, qui a révélé l'information ce jeudi 22 octobre.
À 80 ans, Sylvester Stallone fait un mea culpa sans détour sur ses cascades. Ravagé par une dizaine de passages sur la table d'opération et des traumatismes cervicaux à répétition, l'éternel interprète de Rocky et Rambo tire à boulets rouges sur son propre ego passé. Il regrette beaucoup.
After months of industry and customer speculation, Paramount Skydance has shed some light on the future of the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services.
Paramount Skydance completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today, ending a monthslong saga that began when Netflix last year announced its own plans to buy WBD. Netflix scrapped those plans in February. Skydance is the name of the company created from the $111 billion merger.
In an announcement today, Skydance said that all of the direct-to-consumer streaming services it owns, including the Discovery+ service that Discovery Inc. (which merged with WarnerMedia in 2022 to create WBD) launched in 2021, “will unify into a single service over time.”
Après un an d'une guerre d'enchères sauvage, de procès et d'épreuves de force politiques, c'est officiel. Le jeune milliardaire David Ellison et sa société Skydance viennent de finaliser l'acquisition de Warner Bros. Discovery pour 111 milliards de dollars (près de 99 milliards d'euros, dette comprise).
There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk's murder, sending free speech proponents into a frenzy.
Those free speech proponents include me, who, as a reporter, has clear stakes in protecting that right. Although I was on board with halting support for a company I felt had acted wrongfully, truly boycotting Disney proved harder than I expected.
Canceling Disney+ was simple but threw a hefty wrench into my evening routine. I tend to end many weekdays laughing at comforting sitcom reruns and adult animation. I usually associate Disney with princesses, kids' movies, and, more recently, comic heroes. But Disney also owns Hulu, which exclusively streamed many of my favorite shows for unwinding at the time, like American Dad, Futurama, Living Single, Fresh Off the Boat, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Free speech and media advocacy groups urged a judge to block a California settlement with Paramount Skydance that would let the company finalize its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
Twelve states led by California sued to block the deal in July and were able to delay it when US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled that Paramount combining with Warner Bros. would likely reduce competition substantially and violate antitrust laws. Despite that initial victory, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Paramount earlier this week and the other states involved in the lawsuit signed on to the deal.
Martínez-Olguín must decide whether to approve the settlement. A coalition of free speech and media advocacy groups told the judge in a filing yesterday that the deal will give residents of the states that sued Paramount "virtually nothing." The filing was submitted by the Committee for the First Amendment, Free Press, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Future Film Coalition, and International Documentary Association.
California and Paramount Skydance have reportedly reached a settlement allowing the company to complete its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement, which will reportedly be announced later today, drew condemnation from Democrats and media advocates.
"The Paramount/Warner Brothers merger seems facially illegal, and the state AG lawsuit challenging it is very strong," Lina Khan, who chaired the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration, wrote yesterday. "It’s troubling to hear that the states may now settle for behavioral remedies, allowing the deal to go through subject to various promises from the firms. Behavioral remedies routinely fail, and the stakes here are particularly high given that a strong democracy requires open markets for sound journalism and creative expression."
After news of advanced settlement talks was reported over the weekend, Bloomberg reported today that Paramount reached an agreement with California and other states that sued to block the merger. "Settlement talks came to fruition over the weekend after four states that had opposed terms of a deal outlined with California conceded," Bloomberg wrote, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Pour sa nouvelle série attendue le 9 octobre 2026 sur Paramount+, le duo Bryan Konietzko et Michael Dante DiMartino prend à revers les attentes du public pour Avatar. Finis la bienveillance réconfortante et le fan-service tiède : la franchise fait un bond de 225 ans dans le futur pour plonger dans un univers post-apocalyptique où l'Avatar n'est plus un sauveur, mais une menace rejetée par l'humanité.
Gears of War, Halo, World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls, Diablo... Selon Puck, la division jeu vidéo de Microsoft démarche discrètement les mastodontes du cinéma et du streaming pour leur refourguer les droits d'adaptation de son catalogue dans un seul et même contrat global.
Londres vient de valider la mégafusion entre Paramount Skydance et Warner Bros. Discovery. Un feu vert de plus pour le futur géant du divertissement, mais qui ne règle en rien le vrai problème : aux États-Unis, la justice prend son temps et l'addition commence à faire très mal.
Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from combining until after a judge rules on the merits of a case in which a dozen states challenged the legality of the merger.
Under a stipulation filed in court today, the states and companies agreed that the merger will not be completed and the firms will not integrate their operations until "five days after the merits determination in these matters," or on June 1, 2027, whichever is earlier. The delay was also agreed to by the Writers Guild of America, which filed its own lawsuit to block the merger. If there is no merits determination by June 1, the plaintiffs could seek a preliminary injunction to keep blocking the deal.
The agreement amounts to "a months-long halt" to the merger, New York Attorney General Letitia James' office said. “Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory in our efforts to uphold the law and protect the film and television industries," James said.
L'éviction des plateaux américains est officiellement de l'histoire ancienne. Quatre ans après le marathon judiciaire ultra-médiatisé qui l'a tenu à l'écart des grands studios, Johnny Depp signe son grand retour aux affaires par la porte principale.
A federal judge today ordered Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $111 billion merger, handing an early win to states that sued to block the deal. The ruling granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the firms from completing the merger and from consolidating their operations.
The temporary order is only in effect for 14 days, but it can be converted into a preliminary injunction that would prevent the merger from being completed until the case is resolved. The temporary restraining order can be extended past the 14-day period if more time is needed to rule on a preliminary injunction.
A group of 12 states led by California sued the companies last week in an attempt to block the deal, which had been approved by the Trump administration. The states say the merger will eliminate competition by combining two of the five major Hollywood movie studios, and two of the five major owners of basic cable TV channels.
The rich and famous who filed into the Kennedy Center’s opera house in December were there to enjoy one of the nation’s most exclusive celebrations of the performing arts: the center’s annual honors gala.
The black-tie event, hosted by President Donald Trump, prioritized tickets to people who donated more than $75,000 to the center. This year, it feted Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone, the legendary glam rock band Kiss and the Grammy Award-winning disco pioneer Gloria Gaynor.
Among the attendees that evening were two lower-profile government officials whose regulatory decisions had been crucial to the future of the gala’s broadcast sponsor, CBS, and its parent company, Paramount.
Trois séries sur cinq dans le haut du panier. Le dernier relevé des audiences de Paramount+ ressemble à un constat de décès pour la concurrence : Dutton Ranch en tête, l’increvable Yellowstone sur la troisième marche, et Tulsa King qui ferme la marche du Top 5. Au milieu, seuls South Park et le thriller The Agency parviennent à respirer. Ce monopole absolu n'est plus un simple succès de programmation, c’est une mainmise industrielle.
A group of 12 states led by California sued Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery today in an attempt to block a $111 billion merger that was greenlit by the Trump administration last month.
"The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the US," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
The merger would combine two of the largest movie studios and merge streaming service Paramount+ with HBO Max. Netflix previously had a deal to buy WBD's streaming and movie studios businesses, but Paramount succeeded in a hostile takeover bid helped along by support from the Trump administration.
Excédé par le blocage politique de la Californie qui menace de faire capoter sa fusion à 110 milliards de dollars avec Warner Bros. Discovery, le patron de Paramount, David Ellison, s'apprête à hausser le ton. Ses conseillers le poussent ouvertement à délocaliser le siège social et à couper le robinet des investissements dans l'État : 30 milliards de dollars sont sur la table. Un coup de bluff ?
C'est le feuilleton qui secoue Hollywood en ce plein mois de juillet. Victime d'un piratage massif et d'une fuite intégrale sur le web au printemps dernier, le très attendu film d'animation Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender ne sortira pas en octobre comme prévu. Pris de court, Paramount vient de prendre une décision radicale : avancer la sortie mondiale de plusieurs mois pour limiter la casse.
Hollywood adore recycler ses vieux jouets, même quand ils sont cassés. Contre toute attente, la franchise militaire G.I. Joe s'apprête à faire un énième retour sur grand écran sous la houlette du scénariste Danny McBride. Si la promesse d'un film d'action sérieux et ambitieux pour 2027 a de quoi intriguer, le passif catastrophique de la saga au cinéma force à une immense prudence.
The British government could intervene in the $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance, citing concerns around the need for a plurality of views in news as well as media ownership in the UK.
UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy said on Tuesday that she was “minded to intervene” in the deal, which would create one of the world’s largest media and entertainment groups.
The takeover would lead to WBD media franchises such as CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros. movies being added to Paramount’s stable of assets, which include CBS in the US and Channel 5 in the UK.
Alors que le projet de fusion historique entre Paramount et Warner Bros Discovery semblait sur une voie royale après le feu vert des États-Unis, un obstacle inattendu surgit de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Le gouvernement britannique menace d'intervenir et de geler l'opération, mettant en péril un deal global à 110 milliards de dollars.
Derrière le mythe hollywoodien, la sordide réalité. Le film culte Le Loup de Wall Street de Martin Scorsese n'aurait en fait égratigné que la surface du vice. Paramount+ vient de dévoiler la bande-annonce explosive de The Real Wolf of Wall Street, une série documentaire en trois parties qui s'annonce déjà comme un règlement de comptes en règle avec le long-métrage de 2013.
[Deal du jour] Bonne nouvelle pour les moins de 26 ans qui cherchent à suivre tous les matchs de la Coupe du Monde ainsi que le meilleur du streaming sans se ruiner. L'offre Rat+ de Canal+ fait son grand retour au tarif de 19,99 € par mois au lieu de 34,99 €.
When the US Department of Justice approved Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday, a DOJ press release said "a rigorous eight-month investigation led by the [Antitrust] Division’s career staff" showed that the $111 billion deal would not harm competition or American consumers.
But according to The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ career lawyers who led that investigation "were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit challenging it on the grounds that the combination of the two movie studios would be anticompetitive and violate antitrust law." DOJ senior leaders closed the investigation "before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object, according to people familiar with the matter," the WSJ reported.
Commenting on the report that the decision to allow the deal surprised staff investigators, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote that "the American people need to know if this merger was approved as a political favor. This reeks of corruption."
Paramount Skydance is accusing Netflix of maintaining a campaign against its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
In a June 5 letter (PDF) addressed to Jared A. Hughes, acting section chief of the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Section of the US Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Antitrust Division, and A. Maya Kahn, a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division, and first reported on by Politico today, Paramount chief legal officer Makan Delrahim accused Netflix of trying to influence stakeholders about the merger. The letter reads:
Indeed, Netflix’s panic-level response and scorched-earth campaign to try and poison regulators and other stakeholders against the Transaction shows just how seriously Netflix takes Paramount as a scaled competitor.
The letter from Delrahim, a former assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, is a response to a letter that The International Brotherhood of Teamsters sent to the DOJ in March. The teamsters' letter argued that Paramount and WBD's merger would threaten film and TV workers. The union, which has 1.3 million members, asked the DOJ to block the merger "unless substantial and enforceable safeguards are put in place to increase domestic production and protect jobs," per an announcement from the group.
Le feuilleton qui secoue Hollywood est-il sur le point de s'offrir un ultime rebondissement ? Depuis la fin abrupte de la série principale Yellowstone et l'élimination brutale de John Dutton hors champ, la rancœur semblait définitive entre Kevin Costner et le créateur Taylor Sheridan. Pourtant, depuis l'avènement du spin-off Dutton Ranch, les fans réclament plus que jamais son retour.
Le 12 juin 2026, Steven Spielberg boucle sa grande saga extraterrestre avec Disclosure Day. Pour arriver armés en salles, c’est le moment idéal pour se refaire un marathon de ses trois chefs-d’œuvre absolus autour de cette thématique.
La famille Corleone n’en a pas fini avec le cinéma. Le Parrain va revenir sur grand écran avec un quatrième film, adapté du nouveau roman de l’autrice Adriana Trigiani.
Toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin, surtout à Hollywood. L'annonce de la conclusion d'Emily in Paris après sa sixième saison vient de tomber. Or, les raisons de cet arrêt programmé ne sont pas artistiques, mais purement financières et stratégiques. Décryptage des coulisses d'un business model devenu trop lourd pour Netflix, face à son plus grand rival.
When the action film Top Gun hit the big screen in 1986, critical reviews were mixed, but audiences were thrilled. The film racked up $358 million globally, making it the highest-grossing film of that year. Its success spawned a few video games and a critically acclaimed blockbuster 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, and the eye-popping flight sequences definitely boosted enlistment numbers for the US Navy. Those scenes are still the best thing about Top Gun, 40 years later.
(Spoilers below because it's been 40 years.)
The film was inspired by a 1983 article in California magazine detailing the lives of fighter pilots at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego (aka "Fightertown USA") and featuring plenty of aerial photography alongside the text. Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson tapped Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. to write the screenplay, with Epps sitting in on declassified classes at the academy and even taking a flight aboard an F-14.
Avis aux nostalgiques des cascades les plus stupides de la télévision. À l'approche de la sortie au cinéma du cinquième et ultime film de la franchise, l'intégralité de la série originale Jackass vient de faire sa réapparition sur Paramount+. Une excellente nouvelle pour les fans, d'autant que les trois saisons reviennent dans leur montage d'époque, débarrassées des censures et modifications accumulées au fil des ans.
Le ciel s’apprête à nouveau à s’assombrir avec l'arrivée imminente de Disclosure Day, le prochain grand blockbuster de Steven Spielberg. En attendant de découvrir comment le maître de la science-fiction va réinventer l’invasion extraterrestre à l’écran, il est temps de se replonger dans les classiques qui ont façonné notre vision de l'ailleurs. Des monstres invisibles de la jungle aux messages codés venus des étoiles, voici une sélection des dix œuvres incontournables pour réviser ses classiques avant le grand jour.
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