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Sun Valley 2024 Invites Shari Redstone, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Jason Blum and More (EXCLUSIVE)
Puffer vest and private jet convention Sun Valley has a stacked guest list of power players for 2024.
But Variety can exclusively report that the guest list for the Idaho gathering includes National Amusements president Shari Redstone — in the thick of a deal to sell Paramount Global and with it her family’s media empire to Skydance — as well as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Hollywood super-producer Jason Blum. They join veterans like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Bob Iger (and his potential Disney CEO successors in Alan Bergman, Dana Walden, Josh D’Amaro and recent dark horse Hugh Johnston), Amazon’s Andy Jassy and Jeff Bezos, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, Apple’s Tim Cook and Netflix co-CEO’s Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters. Lightning rod Altman of OpenAI could inspire ridicule for his proximity to Hollywood’s decision makers as the industry tries to reconcile artificial intelligence with labor unions (in any event, he should probably steer clear of CAA’s Bryan Lourd, who represents Scarlett Johansson.
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