Skydance Media
Final logo used from 2020 to 2025 | |
| Skydance | |
| Formerly | Skydance Productions (2006–2020) |
| Company type | Public |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | April 4, 2006 |
| Founder | David Ellison |
| Defunct | August 7, 2025 |
| Fate | Acquired National Amusements and merged with Paramount Global to form Paramount Skydance |
| Successors | Paramount Skydance |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Global |
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| Brands | Uncharted (label) |
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| Website | skydance |
| 1886 | Westinghouse Electric Corporation is founded as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company |
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| 1912 | Famous Players Film Company is founded |
| 1913 | Lasky Feature Play Company is founded |
| 1914 | Paramount Pictures is founded |
| 1916 | Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount |
| 1927 | Famous Players–Lasky is renamed Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation; CBS is founded with investment from Columbia Records |
| 1929 | Paramount acquires 49% of CBS |
| 1930 | Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation is renamed Paramount Publix Corporation |
| 1932 | Paramount sells back its shares of CBS |
| 1934 | Gulf+Western is founded as the Michigan Bumper Corporation |
| 1935 | Paramount Publix Corporation is renamed Paramount Pictures |
| 1936 | National Amusements is founded as Northeast Theater Corporation |
| 1938 | CBS acquires Columbia Records |
| 1950 | Desilu is founded and CBS distributes its television programs |
| 1952 | CBS creates the CBS Television Film Sales division |
| 1958 | CBS Television Film Sales is renamed CBS Films |
| 1966 | Gulf+Western acquires Paramount |
| 1967 | Gulf+Western acquires Desilu and renames it Paramount Television (now CBS Studios) |
| 1968 | CBS Films is renamed CBS Enterprises |
| 1970 | CBS Enterprises is renamed Viacom |
| 1971 | Viacom is spun off from CBS |
| 1987 | National Amusements acquires Viacom |
| 1988 | CBS sells Columbia Records to Sony |
| 1989 | Gulf+Western is renamed Paramount Communications |
| 1994 | Viacom acquires Paramount Communications |
| 1995 | Paramount Television and United Television launch UPN; Westinghouse acquires CBS |
| 1997 | Westinghouse is renamed CBS Corporation |
| 2000 | Viacom acquires UPN and CBS Corporation |
| 2005 | Viacom splits into the second CBS Corporation and Viacom |
| 2006 | Skydance Media is founded as Skydance Productions; CBS Corporation shuts down UPN and replaces it with The CW |
| 2009 | Paramount and Skydance enter an agreement to co-produce and co-finance films |
| 2017 | CBS Corporation sells CBS Radio to Entercom (now Audacy) |
| 2019 | CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merge as ViacomCBS |
| 2022 | ViacomCBS is renamed Paramount Global |
| 2025 | Skydance acquires National Amusements and merges with Paramount Global as Paramount Skydance |
| 2026 | Paramount Skydance enters into a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery |
Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) was an American media production and financing company founded by David Ellison and based in Santa Monica, California, that was active from April 4, 2006 to August 7, 2025. It specialized in films, animation, television, video games and sports.
In 2009, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures. This agreement was renewed twice, extending to 2021. On July 7, 2024, Skydance announced its intent to merge with Paramount Global in an $8 billion transaction, under an agreement in which Skydance would acquire Paramount's controlling shareholder National Amusements, and then perform an all-stock merger with the company. On July 24, 2025, the merger was approved by the FCC, and the merger was closed on August 7, 2025, forming Paramount Skydance. Skydance Media's film library was transferred to Paramount Pictures.