David Ellison On Savings, Growth, The Tech Stack & AI As Paramount Closes In On WBD

David Ellison says savings from the Skydance-Paramount merger will significantly exceed the $3 billion initially projected, with $2.5 billion anticipated by the end of this year. And, “We’re in the process of basically converging Paramount+, BET+ and Pluto all into one unified tech stack. We’re going to finish that second quarter of this year,” the Paramount CEO noted at a conference. The tech stack — which has been front and center in Ellison’s comments around M&A.– refers to all of the technologies from ...