Skydance's Overseas Shuffle: A Reported Frontrunner Won't Get the International Job

The reverberations from the combination of Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery — a deal Variety calls historic — are being felt overseas, and one of the names floated to run the international side is out of the running. A Monday report had international executive Kevin MacLellan close to clinching the top job outside North America; sources tell Variety he will not move forward in the role instead. That makes the international leadership question one of the first visible contests of the new arrangement, with the trade press reporting the outcome before the company has said much about how the operation will be run.