Shamita Basu

Can you tell us that story?

What was Larry's reaction?

You write that once David realized maybe acting wasn't his way into a Hollywood career, he founded this production company called Skydance.

This was in 2010.

And looking at his track record at Skydance tells us about the kinds of films that he likes to make.

And I actually chuckled a little bit.

You had spoken to a former Skydance executive who described David Ellison's taste in movies as normie, which is just to say normal.

He likes making sequels and he likes making big budget blow up kind of movies.

So tell me a little bit more about the kinds of movies that David likes to make and his time running Skydance.

Mm hmm.

So last year in 2025, David Ellison and Skydance buy Paramount for eight billion dollars.

Talk to me about this Paramount deal and how that came about.

Like what made David want to go after Paramount?

What was appealing to him about that?

And what, if anything, did his dad have to do with it?

Yeah.

There's also the relationship between Larry Ellison and Donald Trump and the current White House.

I mean, can you talk a little bit about that?

What do we know about their relationship?

They've been described as close.