Talks have eased between Paramount and Skydance, though the latter remains interested.
That would mean roughly another ten big titles gone from the marketplace.
Circuits are already scrapping by post strikes and Covid.
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Big Sony is putting out 15 movies this year and Paramount another ten.
They wouldnt follow in the footsteps of Disney-Foxs practices; at least thats the plan right now.
Last year, Paramount and Sony respectively grossed $2 billion at the global box office.
Marketing and distribution ops would be merged.
How long that lasts remains the question.
Sony is known as an arms dealer of content, licensing movies and TV shows to Netflix and Disney.
The studio has a rich pay one deal with Netflix.
The Sony Apollo deal would require the OK from the Justice Departments Antitrust division, the FTC and FCC.
The current President Biden administration is known to be anti-merger, particularly horizontal ones where jobs could be lost.
