 In the age of streaming, however, the fortunes of the entertainment world ebbed. She concluded she had to sell and agreed to terms with Skydance Media after calling a previous deal off. Skydance founder David Ellison is the son of the multi-billionaire co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle. Skydance has backed projects in collaboration with Paramount, such as the Mission Impossible films and Top Gun Maverick, as well as a Star Trek movie. The combined company's chief executive is to be Jeff Schell, the former head of NBCUniversal. David Folkenflik, NPR News.