Skydance and National Amusements near Paramount deal as special committee reviews terms NBC News Top Stories By: Lillian Rizzo, CNBC and Alex Sherman, CNBC and Rohan Goswami, CNBC and Julia Boorstin, CNBC 2 July 2024 at 20:02 David Ellison’s Skydance has reached a preliminary deal with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements to merge with Paramount, according to two people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a deal which failed just weeks earlier.