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International Insider: Paramount-Skydance; French Political Impasse; Well Hello Dolly!


Paramount Skydance Deal and French elections feature in this week's International Insider.

Ellison, Jeff Shell and RedBird Capital have been looking to woo Wall Street in recent days, my colleague Jill Goldsmith writes, pointing to $2B in running cost synergies and a streaming break-even in 18 months or sooner if a partner emerges. Future unknown: The French film and TV world breathed a collective sigh of relief on July 7 as a surprise win in snap parliamentary elections for the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) alliance averted the possibility of the far-right National Rally (RN) party coming into power. The as-yet-untitled show will follow an alpha male on a kibbutz, played by Masucci (if you haven’t watched Netflix’s Dark then you should), who is forced by the Israeli spy agency to return to Germany and infiltrate a cell of SS veterans with the aim of locating the Nazi war criminal, who was nicknamed The Angel of Death due to the gruesome experiments he carried out on Auschwitz inmates.

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