Paramount Has Been Assimilated by Skydance Media in $8 Billion Takeover by Gordon Jackson from Gizmodo on 2024-07-08 14:00 (#6P28D) Skydance Media and its backers have reached a deal to invest an astounding $8 billion dollars in a takeover of Paramount Global-bringing new ownership of CBS, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Pictures for the first time in nearly half a century.