While Star Trek TV has been flourishing the past few years, the film trilogy that brought the saga back to life has withered on the vine. That's the Kelvin Timeline, the alt-universe reboot that began in 2009 with J.J. Abrams' . The film and its two sequels earned respectable box office numbers and a loyal fandom, one that's been wondering about future films since Star Trek Beyond in 2016.
Paramount Skydance, backed by the family of CEO David Ellison, is getting ready to make a bid to take over all of Warner Bros. Discovery before the two companies can go through with their plan to split, per a new report from The Wall Street Journal. If such a deal happens, it would put networks as diverse as CBS, CNN, TCM, and MTV under one roof and result in the combination of two historic Hollywood studios, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.
On Thursday evening, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve Paramount's $8.4 billion merger with fellow entertainment firm Skydance Media, a deal that took considerable lobbying from the Trump administration and connections to Larry Ellison.
