 And what old school Hollywood, at least, is hoping and praying is that someone would keep the Paramount studio alive. And that is the promise that young David Ellison, who runs Skydance, made to Shari Redstone, who controlled Paramount's fate. He'd been called a millennial mogul. What's his background? He is the son of one Larry Ellison, whom you might have heard of. Larry Ellison, of course, one of the founders of Oracle.