 Shari Redstone had to battle her late father's girlfriends and her own corporate chiefs for control of the two publicly traded companies she merged into Paramount Global. 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,