The Paramount Lot's Busy Week Before Skydance Closes on Warner Bros. Discovery

It is 102 degrees in Los Angeles, but Variety reports it is not a quiet summer Friday on the Paramount lot: the studio is busy with preparations for the closing of Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery next week. The industry, Variety adds, is speculating heavily about which executives will survive the merger. That kind of executive-suite guessing game is the standard weather of a big consolidation, and it usually resolves only when the appointments are announced.