Paramount CEO Skips Senate Hearing on Warner Bros. Merger Over Family Bereavement

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison will not attend a Senate hearing on Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery because of a death in the family; a Paramount representative said he’s at a funeral. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Cory Booker, will proceed with other witnesses, and Booker has asked for Ellison’s written testimony. Ellison has previously declined to testify, and the merger remains under review by regulators, with Hollywood signatories opposing the deal.