Author: Michael

Paramount Skydance is launching a syndication to raise $7.5 billion through a proposed senior secured incremental tranche of term “B” loans to help fund its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger and pay down certain existing debt. In total, the David Ellison-led media giant intends to raise approximately $44.4 billion of additional secured debt, in addition to previously announced financings, subject to market and other conditions. The move comes as Bank of America, Citigroup and Apollo have already committed to the deal’s $54 billion in debt financing, while three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and LionTree Investment Fund, who will…

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Taylor Swift confirmed her “Patient Zero” music video with Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell will premiere at the Sept. 27 MTV VMAs. In a 13-second teaser shared to her Instagram Sept. 24, the video portrays somber tones, with one scene seeing Johnson and Swift standing in front of a gravestone that appears to have the words “daughter” and “gone too soon” on the front. One fan considered the moment to be a call back to Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” music video, where she rises from a grave marked with the pseudonym she used to write “This is…

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