re: Updated: David Ellison making moves. Abdy and DeLuca are out. Gunn stays

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David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.

Assets:

• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network

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Film Rights:

• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)

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Studio chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are out at Warner Bros

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More importantly, according to several insiders, in the midst of a shakeout that is seeing executives stay or exiting, DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are staying put. At least for the foreseeable future.

Multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the duo met with Ellison in person Thursday and that the meeting was positive. The pair were asked to stay and “keep doing what you’re doing,” per one source.

But it’s unclear how the two heads, and DC in general, fit into the organizational structure of Skydance. It is unknown to whom Gunn and Safran would report, whether it would be straight to Ellison or if it would be layered underneath Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, the current Paramount film heads who are expected to oversee both film studios, while current Warner film chiefs, Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca, are being shown the door. (At Warner Bros. Discovery, Gunn and Safran reported directly to CEO David Zaslav.)

At this point, it is known that Ellison is supportive of Gunn and Safran and wants them to continue leading. The general consensus is they should at least see through the releases of the movies that are either completed or in post-production, namely the upcoming horror thriller Clayface (Oct. 23), and the especially Man of Tomorrow, the big-budget Superman sequel that opens July 2027. In a show of support, Ellison visited the Atlanta set of that movie over the summer.

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