Shamita Basu

Reeves didn't speak directly with David or Larry for this piece, but he did talk to people who know them and who say, despite having a mixed track record, David's passion for the industry is genuine.

So I sat down with Reeves to understand who the Ellisons really are, what they want, and what their growing power could mean for the future of the media and all of us watching now.

Let's start with Larry's story, because he's one of those people who is one of the wealthiest in the world.

And yet I think a lot of people don't actually know very much about him.

He's managed to kind of fly under the radar.

What's Larry's story?

Who is he?

That's fascinating.

I was reading a bit about him and he was described in some places as a centi-billionaire, which was actually not a word that I knew that we had invented yet in English.

But I guess there's a few people now that it applies to some people in the world now.

And he's one of very few who it does apply to, in fact.

And now David is Larry's son by his third wife, with whom he had a short marriage.

They also had a daughter, Megan, who you write about in the piece as also having ambitions in Hollywood and having her own career.

But what was David's upbringing like?

What was his childhood like with Larry as a father?

Which is interesting, which has served him differently, but seemingly well as he has risen through the ranks, right?

Well, let's talk about David's entry into Hollywood.

You tell the story in your piece where he actually had acting ambitions at first and he was cast in this movie called Flyboys.

It came out in 2006.

It's a movie that most people will not have heard of because it totally bombed at the box office.