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Barry Diller Says His Interest In Bidding For Paramount “Unquestionably” Pushed Skydance To Seal Merger
Barry Diller said his interest in bidding for Paramount Global "unquestionably" pushed Skydance to close its acquisition of the company.
Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount via her family holding National Amusements Inc. “ought to send a nice pot of flowers or chicken soup” as a token of appreciation, Diller joked. (The merger pact included a 45-day “go-shop” provision, and a group led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. posed one last challenge to Skydance after Diller was out of the mix.) Big Tech (and, in media and entertainment, specifically Netflix, Amazon and Apple) now set the agenda for the industry and popular culture.
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