Ahead of the expected close of the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal, David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz have announced the leadership team for the combined company that will operate as Skydance, according to Ellison’s post, a Paramount statement, and a Variety summary of the org chart.
For DC fans, the most notable part is lower down that list: supplied reporting says James Gunn and Peter Safran will continue leading DC Studios after the deal closes. That was reported in posts citing the new structure from The Wrap, DC Film News, citing The Hollywood Reporter, and Cinema Wire News, citing Deadline.
The company material in the packet supports that Gunn and Safran are included in the leadership lineup. Variety’s captured rundown of the new structure lists both men as co-chairmen of DC Studios within Skydance’s business leadership team in the announced org chart. Variety’s post includes that full list.
What stands out in the org chart
The more interesting wrinkle is where DC appears to sit inside the new structure. Supplied reporting says Gunn and Safran are set to report directly to co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, rather than through motion picture chiefs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg. That framing appears in a Cinema Wire News post citing Deadline and in a DCUBrief post summarizing the setup.
If that reading holds, DC Studios would have a more direct line to the top than the rest of the film operation. That's a meaningful detail in a merger this big, because reporting lines usually say as much about internal influence as press releases do.
What the packet does and does not confirm
The supplied material is stronger on the broad reorganization than on every contract detail.
The primary company announcement in the packet establishes that Ellison and Kreiz unveiled the leadership team for the combined company ahead of the close, and third-party summaries place Gunn and Safran on that list. But the often-repeated detail that their current contracts run through April 2027 comes from secondary reporting in the packet, including a DC Film News post citing The Hollywood Reporter and a Cosmic Book News post attributing the date to Bloomberg. That date is not directly established by the primary Skydance announcement included here.
So the cleanest supported takeaway is this: Skydance has publicly laid out a post-close leadership structure that includes James Gunn and Peter Safran at DC Studios, and supplied reporting says they will continue in those roles under the new regime, with direct reporting lines to Ellison and Kreiz.
That does not answer every longer-term question about DC's future under Skydance. But it does answer the immediate one: in the announced structure, Gunn and Safran are still in the room.
