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8-K — Paramount Skydance Corp

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 4, 2026

Paramount Skydance Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

001-42791

99-3917985

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer Identification

Number)

1515 Broadway

New York,

New York

10036

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of

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Item 2.02

Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On August 4, 2026, Paramount Skydance Corporation issued a Shareholder Letter announcing its financial results

for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. A copy of the Shareholder Letter is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99

and is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

The information furnished pursuant to this Item 2.02, including Exhibit 99, shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes

of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the

liabilities under that Section and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filings under the

Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)Exhibits.

Exhibit

Number

Description of Exhibit

Shareholder Letter, dated August 4, 2026.

104

Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused

this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION

By:

/s/ Makan Delrahim

Name:

Makan Delrahim

Title:

Chief Legal Officer

Date: August 4, 2026

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Exhibit 99

1 Non-GAAP measures are detailed in the Supplemental Disclosures at the end of this letter.

August 4, 2026

Summary Points:

•One year in, we’re proud of the great progress: including nearly doubling our theatrical slate

from 8 to 15 films in 2026 and on track to release 15+ in 2027; 40 new or returning DTC series

greenlit; and over 90 series and 800+ episodes expected from our TV studios in 2026.

•Q2 was our best quarter for retention in Paramount+'s history, powered by Dutton Ranch, UFC,

and the FIFA World Cup non-exclusively across six countries in Latin America, gaining ~2 million

new Paramount+ subscribers in the quarter to reach 81.6 million worldwide.

•Q2 film slate, led by Scary Movie, performed well, and we’re building our pipeline across

Television Studios, Paramount Animation, and Skydance Sports for both first- and third-party

distribution.

•Our focus on creative execution and efficiency at TV Media is working: CBS held seven of the

top 10 broadcast series in the most recent broadcast season, with an increase in profitability.

•We're raising our full-year 2026 outlook to a range of $3.8-$3.9 billion in adj. EBITDA (12.8%

margin) and now expect free cash flow conversion of at least 10%1.

•Our Upfront delivered double-digit growth in commitments across the company and was our

strongest since the CBS-Viacom merger, reflecting the strength of our cross-platform offering.

•We continue to prepare for our proposed combination with Warner Bros. Discovery, while

staying focused on executing our standalone strategy and delivering strong results.

Fellow shareholders,

A year ago, we laid out our three north star priorities that would guide the new Paramount:

•Investing in our growth businesses anchored by our creative engines and superior storytelling

•Scaling our direct-to-consumer business globally

•Driving efficiency enterprise-wide with a focus on long-term free cash flow generation

Looking back on the past twelve months, I’m incredibly proud of how our team has turned those

priorities into measurable progress, reflecting their talent, hard work, and dedication.

We’ve focused on transforming the business and investing in areas where we see the biggest

opportunity for growth. Our primary focus is high-quality storytelling, and we’ve nearly doubled our

theatrical output from eight releases in 2025 to 15 in 2026, while also delivering over 90 series and a

combined 800+ episodes. Beyond 2026, we are on track to release more than 15 films in 2027,

including new and franchise titles, such as Children of Blood and Bone, featuring an all-star cast, the

fourth installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and Teyana Taylor’s directorial debut Get Lite.

At the same time, we’ve assembled one of the strongest creative rosters in the industry, welcoming

new and returning world-class storytellers including the Duffer Brothers, Matt Stone and Trey Parker,

Jon M. Chu, Issa Rae, Liz Tigelaar, and James Mangold, with many more to come.

Of course, great storytelling comes in many forms. We’ve also expanded our leadership in live sports

through new partnerships with the UFC, Zuffa Boxing, and UEFA, complementing an already strong

portfolio that includes the NFL, WNBA, the PGA TOUR, March Madness, and more. Notably, our seven-

year UFC media rights agreement brought every UFC event to Paramount+ beginning this year and,

within just a few months, has delivered some of the platform’s biggest audiences ever. It’s a powerful

validation of what we’ve long believed: premium live sports improve engagement, strengthen

retention, and increase the value of our service for subscribers.

All of this – greater investment in storytelling, new talent and expanded sports rights – is fueling a

deeper, broader slate on Paramount+. We’ve greenlit 40 new or returning series since August 2025,

including 10+ produced externally as we broaden our offering and expand our business with third-party

studios. While we’ll continue to grow our slate, these early investments have helped grow Paramount+

from approximately 77 million subscribers before the Skydance transaction to nearly 82 million today,

while deliberately improving the quality and economics of our subscriber base through selective

strategic exits (including 3 million exits in 1H’26). At the same time, we’re making meaningful progress

on the product side, with the first phase of convergence now underway, the introduction of Clips, and

continued improvements to the experience across our streaming services.

Together, these platform and content investments are translating into stronger customer engagement

with double-digit growth in view hours in Q2. Paramount+ also delivered the best quarter of retention

in the service’s history, underscoring the strength of our strategy and the value we’re creating for

subscribers. And we’ve achieved this while expanding margins through the first half of 2026. We

continue to expect digital advertising growth to accelerate in the back half of the year, supported by

our recently concluded Upfront, which delivered a double-digit percentage increase in commitments

year-over-year and marked the company’s strongest Upfront since the CBS-Viacom merger.

As we’ve expanded our slate and strengthened the streaming foundation that underpins our business,

we’ve made meaningful progress over the past year towards becoming a more efficient, agile

company. This impact is most evident in our TV Media business, where revenue is down 7% year-to-

date, yet profitability has increased 14% compared with the first half of 2025. We’re also seeing early

benefits from our platform unification efforts, bringing Paramount+ and Pluto TV onto a single

technology stack to improve efficiency, accelerate innovation, and deliver a better experience for

consumers.

One year in, we are proud of the progress we’ve made, and we’re energized by the path ahead. While

there is still significant work to be done, our confidence in the opportunity continues to grow, and

we’re excited for the future of this company powered by storytelling and accelerated by technology.

That confidence extends to our proposed combination with Warner Bros. Discovery. As we’ve executed

against our strategy over the past year, we’ve also prepared to close the transaction, and we remain

confident it will be completed, creating a stronger, more competitive, creative-first media company

that builds on the foundation we’ve established – one that benefits consumers, theater exhibitors, and

creatives.

We have publicly committed to releasing at least 30 high-quality films annually, each with a minimum

45-day theatrical window, while continuing to license content to, and acquire content from, third

parties. The rationale is straightforward: as technology-funded competitors like Netflix, Amazon and

Apple reshape the industry, combining Paramount and WBD creates a company with the breadth and

resources to compete on equal footing – making this transaction pro-competitive, pro-consumer, and

pro-creative community.

While we work to complete the transaction, our focus is on executing our standalone strategy and

delivering strong results. That’s what will ultimately define our success as a combined company, and it

remains the best measure of our progress.

With that broader context in mind, here’s a closer look at how each of our segments is performing

today and where we’re focused as we head into year two.

Direct-to-Consumer

Paramount+ delivered a standout quarter, with programming driving subscriber additions to a new

global high and double-digit growth in total engagement. Q2 also marked another milestone: our best

quarter for retention in the service’s history. Dutton Ranch, UFC, and the FIFA World Cup were key

factors, reinforcing how live sports and marquee content – including our Originals, CBS lineup, and

deep library – attract and retain subscribers. Together, these results drove 16% year-over-year

Paramount+ revenue growth in Q2 while accelerating our path to higher profitability for the year.

Dutton Ranch launched on May 15 as the biggest original series debut in Paramount+ history,

attracting 12.9 million viewers in its first week and finishing the season with a record-setting 13.4

million average views per episode. In June, we streamed UFC Freedom 250 live from the White House

South Lawn – a first-of-its-kind global production that drew a record 17 million viewers across the U.S.

and Latin America, the largest-ever audience for an exclusive live event on Paramount+. In Q2, we also

delivered the FIFA World Cup live across six Latin American countries, driving our best quarter of

engagement in LATAM and reaching millions of households. That momentum carried into July, as UFC

329 delivered the highest peak concurrent streams in the platform’s history for an exclusive live event,

trailing only Super Bowl LVIII. Since the start of the year, 20 million subscriber households have

watched more than 200 million hours of UFC programming on Paramount+, generating viewership

more than 23 times the average pay-per-view event over the past two years.

We also expanded our content footprint in Q2 by fully integrating BET+ into Paramount+, bringing

more than 1,000 hours of BET originals, movies, and specials to a larger audience and increasing

visibility for BET’s stories and creators. Following the migration, engagement among migrated

subscribers increased meaningfully versus the BET+ year-to-date average, driven by new seasons of

Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas, Zatima, All The Queen’s Men, and more.

Our third quarter slate is off to a strong start with the launches of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender and

the third season of Lioness, and the return of MobLand coming next month. September also brings a

compelling live sports lineup, including UEFA, NFL simulcasts, UFC 331, and our first premium live

boxing event on Paramount+ on September 12. We greenlit new seasons of the hit series The Madison

and Dutton Ranch, along with Clueless, a limited series based on Paramount’s cult classic film and

starring Alicia Silverstone, and Ascent, a new thriller starring and executive produced by EGOT winner

Viola Davis. Both Clueless and Ascent will be filmed in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, our product focus is on building on our programming momentum and planned

investments by strengthening our platform offering. This includes efforts to enhance our services,

which are already resulting in improved viewing experiences. Our in-house streaming player, validated

through more than 800 controlled experiments, has significantly improved video quality while virtually

eliminating high-rebuffering in low-bandwidth conditions, and Smart TV app startup times are now

66% faster.

Coming into the business, we understood we had a lot of work ahead to bring our streaming

experiences up to best-in-class standards and we are making progress against that as quickly as

possible – with ambitions to lead in innovation and experimentation over time.

We’re also working on introducing a variety of features, including our short-form video experience,

Clips, designed to deepen engagement. We also made progress in Q2 on efforts to evolve the product

experience on Pluto TV including expanding registration and first-party identity and growing the on-

demand offering as part of our broader platform update.

Together, these investments reflect a balanced strategy: executing against a roadmap already

underway while continuing to innovate so that Paramount+ and Pluto TV remain at the center of how

audiences discover and engage with our programming as we build an entertainment platform for the

future.

Studios

The segment is continuing to see strong, profitable growth year-over-year in the second quarter, a

meaningful improvement from a loss in the prior-year period. On the film side, our Studios turnaround

is showing real, measurable progress as our Q2 releases outperformed expectations, reflecting not only

the strength of our slate, but also a more disciplined, data-driven approach to greenlighting, marketing,

and distribution. By applying audience insights and analytics throughout the process, we’re making

smarter decisions and generating 11% more box office per dollar of marketing spend in 2026 compared

to 2025. With eight films still to come in the second half of this year, including PAW Patrol: The Dino

Movie, Street Fighter, and Mr. Irrelevant with the NFL – the league’s first theatrical release – we’re

continuing to build the broader, more diverse slate we set out to create. That momentum carries into

2027, with another strong lineup that spans iconic franchises, original storytelling, and bold new

creative voices, positioning the Studios for sustained, profitable growth.

Our Television Studios continue to build a strong pipeline of premium content across platforms and

markets. CBS Studios is producing or co-producing 15 new and returning series for the network’s

upcoming season, while expanding its reach with leading third-party streamers and international

broadcasters, including with the newest installment of the NCIS universe, NCIS: New York, as well as

high-profile series such as Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie, Apple TV’s Murderbot, Amazon’s Odd

Jobs, and F-Ward in Australia, among others.

Paramount Television Studios is producing a stellar slate of shows for our networks and third parties,

with 20 active titles for Paramount+, including Dexter: Resurrection, Tulsa King and its spinoff Frisco

King. Other recent wins include Ride or Die on Amazon Prime, which quickly became the top show in

the U.S. with an estimated 1.6 billion minutes watched, and XO, Kitty, which spent three weeks on

Netflix’s Global Top 10 Shows list and reached #1 in 54 countries, including the U.S. This quarter will

also see the launch of the newest season of Reacher on Amazon, and its anticipated spinoff, Neagley.

Paramount Animation is expanding its pipeline with a diverse slate of original and franchise-driven

projects, including The Naughty List, an original animated feature from filmmaker Robert Rodriguez; an

animated feature based on CBS’ Survivor franchise with Jeff Probst executive producing; and an

adaptation of the comic Freddy the 13th with Dan Trachtenberg directing. And Skydance Sports, our

premium studio under Paramount Sports Entertainment, is growing its portfolio as well, as highlighted

in the quarter by Netflix’s RAFA, the first primarily non-English docuseries nominated for a primetime

Emmy®.

Content licensing continues to gain momentum, with recent wins including key international deals for

CBS series and kids and family content; strong ongoing results from our domestic Pay 1 output deals;

and the continued success of studio-produced titles such as Swapped, a film from Skydance Animation

that is on track to become Netflix’s second most viewed original animated film. Across our studios, we

are focused on maximizing the value of our content by serving both our own platforms and a broad

range of strategic partners, with recent licensing partnerships with the likes of Amazon, Netflix, Tubi,

and Tencent.

As we reinvigorate the business, we’re seeing the value of our library increase, with healthy double-

digit revenue growth in Q2 and expected for the full year – a meaningful turnaround from prior years’

trends.

In June, we launched Paramount Games, our dedicated games division serving as both a publisher and

incubator for interactive entertainment built around our world-class IP. That same week, we

announced two major titles in development – TMNT: The Last Ronin and Star Trek: Shadow Frontier.

Our latest release, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, is performing very well with an 80 Metacritic

score.

TV Media

Our TV Media segment continues to deliver on the transformation we set out to achieve, growing

profit and margin even as the industry navigates secular pressure on linear and the ongoing shift to

streaming. CBS remains the anchor of that strategy, driven by strong live sports performance alongside

seven of the top 10 broadcast series in the most recent broadcast season. Flagship franchises like

Survivor's milestone 50th season delivered some of the network's biggest performances, further

reinforcing the crossover strength across our platform as CBS and Paramount+ had 10 of the top 20

series across all linear and streaming programming in Q2. Meanwhile, our cable portfolio brands,

including The Daily Show, RuPaul's Drag Race, PAW Patrol, and SpongeBob SquarePants, each set new

performance benchmarks, including The Daily Show achieving its highest ratings in nine years, while

the BET Awards drew its highest ratings and largest audience in years.

That momentum carries into next season – the 2026-2027 primetime schedule features 15 CBS Studios

series, including new additions Cupertino, Einstein, and Eternally Yours, alongside returning hit series

Sheriff’s Country and Matlock. CBS, CBS Studios, and CBS Media Ventures led all networks with a

combined 48 nominations for the 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards, further recognition of the

caliber of storytelling driving the network's performance.

Sports is another strong pillar of that strategy. In Q2, CBS Sports set ratings records across the board

with the most-watched Masters in over a decade, the most-watched UEFA Champions League Final

ever on U.S. English-language television, and our most-watched WNBA game ever following our new

long-term partnership with the league. Looking ahead, the NFL remains a strong partnership, and this

fall's expanded schedule – featuring an additional primetime game – underscores the value of live

sports in growing audience reach, advertiser demand, and engagement across both linear and

streaming. Together, these results reflect a TV Media business that is executing on its transformation

while continuing to serve our audiences where they are, including on broadcast or Paramount+, and

positions our most valuable brands and franchises for the future.

Driving Efficiency and Optimizing Investment Enterprise-wide

We continue to make progress on our transformation at Paramount, and we now expect to deliver

over $2.7 billion of run-rate efficiencies by the end of 2026 versus $2.5 billion previously, and continue

to expect $3 billion-plus in efficiencies from the Skydance-Paramount combination.

Our progress is evident in our external financials in TV Media, where profitability grew year-over-year

while revenue declined, reflecting steps to rightsize the cost structure relative to overall declines in

linear revenues. For example, even as we made more efficient programming decisions across TV Media

– with average production costs per episode down nearly 10% year-over-year for the 2025-2026

broadcast season – we saw an increase in our share of the top 20 series. This shows we can manage

the segment for profitability while still delivering great entertainment value to audiences.

Across other areas of the business, we’re continuing to make progress on making technology a core

competency of the company and operating more efficiently as an enterprise. As one example, we are

building enterprise apps in-house across procurement, recruiting, finance, and HR using AI

development tools with rapid build times and savings versus third-party solutions. We also have the

majority of the workforce using AI tools across an accelerating number of workflows. In particular, we

are seeing velocity and volume of features shipped increasing across our streaming engineering team.

Our work to unify company systems is on track as additional divisions went live on Oracle Fusion in

July, and we are on our way to bringing the entire company onto a unified ERP system by early next

year.

These efficiencies are also enabling the company to make disciplined reinvestments into growth areas

of our business, such as spending over $1.5 billion in new content in 2026 for current and future

programming – including UFC, our expanding film slate, and a broader Originals lineup – and strategic

scaling of our product and technology capabilities such as investing in AI across our engineering teams

and building our ad tech teams and offerings.

2 We present periods before ("predecessor") and after ("successor") the close of the Skydance Transaction (see Financial

Statement Presentation). Because our current GAAP segment structure was not in effect during the predecessor period, the

2025 predecessor revenues by segment shown in this letter constitute a non-GAAP presentation. See Supplemental

Disclosures Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures for reconciliations to the historical GAAP segment presentation.

Q2 Results and Q3 and 2026 Outlook

A summary and discussion of Q2 results and our Q3 and 2026 outlook are below2.

In millions, except

per share amounts

Predecessor

Successor

Outlook

7/1/25 -

8/7/25 -

Q2’25

8/6/25

9/30/25

Q4’25

Q1’26

Q2’26

Q3’26

2026

Direct-to-Consumer

$2,264

$923

$1,344

$2,309

$2,398

$2,474

Y/Y Growth (%)

11%

Studios

1,135

462

738

2,060

1,283

1,314

Y/Y Growth (%)

11%

16%

TV Media

3,454

1,198

2,042

3,799

3,666

3,128

Y/Y Growth (%)

(6)%

(9)%

Eliminations

(4)

(2)

(3)

(20)

—

(3)

Total Revenue

$6,849

$2,581

$4,121

$8,148

$7,347

$6,913

$6,950 - $7,150

$30,000

Y/Y Growth (%)

4% - 7%

Operating Income (Loss)

$399

$80

$244

$(339)

$616

$475

Operating Margin (%)

5.8%

3.1%

5.9%

(4.2)%

8.4%

6.9%

Net Earnings (Loss)

$57

$(244)

$(13)

$(573)

$168

$41

Diluted EPS (1)

$.08

$(.36)

$(.01)

$(.52)

$.15

$.04

Adjusted EBITDA (2)

$863

$313

$684

$674

$1,161

$1,099

$875 - $975

$3,800 - $3,900

Y/Y Growth (%)

(6)%

42%

59%

27%

(12%) - (2%)

16% - 19%

Adj. EBITDA Margin (%)

12.6%

12.1%

16.6%

8.3%

15.8%

15.9%

13.1%

12.8%

Net Cash Provided by

(Used For) Operating

Activities

$159

$(175)

$268

$217

$185

$319

Free Cash Flow (2)

$114

$(207)

$222

$101

$96

$258

Shares Outstanding (3)

680

675

1,098

1,104

1,118

1,120

Paramount+ Revenue

$1,771

$709

$1,060

$1,837

$1,974

$2,061

Y/Y Growth (%)

23%

17%

16%

Paramount+ Subscribers

76.8

77.9

78.9

79.6

81.6

Y/Y Growth (%)

14%

Note: (1) Diluted EPS from continuing operations attributable to predecessor or successor; (2) See Supplemental

Disclosures Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures (3) Weighted average number of diluted shares

outstanding

Q2’26

In Q2, total revenue of $6.9 billion increased 1% versus revenue of $6.8 billion in Q2'25 for the

predecessor company, led by growth in DTC and Studios revenues, largely offset by a continued decline

in TV Media. Operating income was $475 million (6.9% margin) including $153 million of transaction-

related costs. Adj. EBITDA was $1.1 billion, a 15.9% margin, and increased 27% year-over-year, with

profitability up across all segments.

Direct-to-Consumer

•DTC revenue increased 9% year-over-year to $2.5 billion, led by Paramount+ revenue growth of

16% year-over-year, reflecting subscriber growth of approximately 6% and ARPU growth of

approximately 12%. We added approximately 2 million subscribers in Q2, ahead of our

expectations as subscriber growth accelerated (including nearly 2 million international hard

bundle exits in the quarter). Outperformance was driven by our programming slate, including

FIFA World Cup in certain Latin American countries, UFC, and our Originals, all of which

contributed to Q2 being our lowest churn quarter in Paramount+’s history. DTC advertising

revenue grew 8% year-over-year, with Paramount+ ad revenue growing over 30% in the

quarter. As previously noted, we completed our integration of BET+ into Paramount+ in the

quarter, which along with Showtime declines, amounted to a modest headwind to total DTC

growth.

•DTC adj. EBITDA was $366 million (14.8% margin), up 44% versus $254 million in Q2'25, as

revenue growth and cost efficiencies, including a benefit related to the change in accounting

basis resulting from the Skydance transaction, more than offset planned investment in

programming.

Studios

•Studios revenue increased 16% year-over-year to $1.3 billion, reflecting a strong quarter of

third-party deliveries at Paramount Television Studios and the consolidation of Skydance

licensing revenues, partially offset by lower theatrical revenue from lapping Mission: Impossible

– The Final Reckoning in the prior year. The Q2 film slate, led by Scary Movie, performed well

and came ahead of our expectations.

•Studios adj. EBITDA was $36 million (2.7% margin), compared to -$31 million in Q2'25, driven by

improved film slate profitability and TV licensing contribution.

TV Media

•TV Media revenue declined 9% year-over-year to $3.1 billion. Advertising revenue declined 14%

year-over-year, including an approximately eight percentage point headwind from lapping

NCAA Final Four and Championship game advertising in the prior-year quarter, as noted last

quarter, as well as an approximate three percentage point headwind from our sales of Telefe

and Chilevision. This was partially offset by an approximately two percentage point benefit from

political advertising. Affiliate revenue declined 6% year-over-year, consistent with continued

pay TV subscriber erosion while rates remain resilient.

•TV Media adj. EBITDA was $1.1 billion, a 34.0% margin versus a 26.4% margin for Q2’25,

benefiting from disciplined expense management to more than offset revenue declines.

Q3’26

In Q3’26, we expect total revenue of $6.95 billion to $7.15 billion, or 4% to 7% growth year-over-year

versus Q3’25 for the predecessor company, with accelerating growth in DTC and Studios and

moderating declines in TV Media. In Q3, we expect Paramount+ quarter-over-quarter subscribers will

be flattish.

We expect adj. EBITDA of $875 million to $975 million, or a 13.1% margin at the midpoint, with

approximately $70 million of stock-based compensation in the quarter. We expect profitability will

improve year-over-year in Studios and TV Media. In Direct-to-Consumer, we expect a mid- to high-

single-digit margin in Q3 due primarily to the seasonal timing of content amortization expense, while

still expecting full-year growth in our streaming profit. We anticipate transformation costs of roughly

$200 million in Q3, which will impact our reported free cash flow.

2026

For 2026, we continue to expect total revenue of $30 billion, or 4% growth year-over-year, inclusive of

predecessor and successor periods. Our expectations by segment are largely consistent with those we

outlined in our Q4’25 letter. We are increasing our adj. EBITDA forecast from our previous $3.8 billion

to $3.8 to $3.9 billion, or a 12.8% margin at the midpoint. Our profit growth reflects progress against

our $3 billion-plus efficiencies and cost management balanced with disciplined reinvestment. We now

expect free cash flow conversion of at least 10% before roughly $800 million of transformation costs.

2026 remains an important year of investment – in business transformation, and in content and

technology, which we expect will contribute to our growth in 2027 and beyond. Across segments:

•For DTC, we continue to expect accelerating revenue growth across subscription and

advertising revenue. Underlying subscriber growth will be healthy and accelerating year-over-

year, with total paid subscribers modestly higher compared to 2025, including approximately 4

million strategic international hard bundle exits. We continue to expect to grow our DTC profit

in 2026 relative to 2025, with profitability weighted more meaningfully to the first half of the

year due to the timing of programming investments in Q3 and Q4 as noted above.

•We expect growth in our new Studios segment driven by accelerating licensing and other

revenues, including a full-year impact of legacy Skydance revenue, as well as higher licensing

from first run, current, and library titles across our studios. Our theatrical slate continues to

outperform expectations, though we still expect lower theatrical revenue year-over-year due to

lower average box office revenue per film across more releases in 2026 as we build into our

2027+ slates. We expect Studios segment profitability will increase in 2026 versus 2025.

•In TV Media, we expect continued headwinds to affiliate revenue due to pay TV subscriber

declines with some moderation in linear advertising declines versus 2025, including expected

political spending in 2026 in the back half of the year. We expect to have improving margins in

TV Media as well as growth in total adj. EBITDA in 2026.

•We forecast corporate expenses of approximately $1.5 billion for the year.

Capital Structure & Capital Allocation

We ended the quarter with $1.6 billion in cash and cash equivalents and $15.2 billion in gross debt. In

Q2, we repaid $350 million of our outstanding revolver borrowings to end the quarter at $1.8 billion

drawn. As a reminder, we drew $2.15 billion on our revolving credit facility in Q1 to pay the $2.8 billion

termination fee WBD owed to Netflix upon entering into our merger agreement. This total amount will

be repaid by us from proceeds we will receive from the private placement we entered into in

connection with the WBD transaction. We have $86 million in debt maturing for the remainder of

2026.

Warner Bros. Discovery Transaction

As it relates to the planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, we fully expect the transaction to

close and remain focused on preparing for a successful combination once it is complete. Over the past

several months, our leadership team and legal partners have worked closely with antitrust and

competition authorities around the world. As a result, regulatory bodies and governments representing

65 jurisdictions — including the European Commission, Australia, Brazil, China, the U.S., Germany,

France, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea — have either cleared the

transaction or elected not to challenge it on competition and/or foreign direct investment grounds.

As these clearances demonstrate, the transaction is fully consistent with antitrust laws. The claims in

the pending antitrust litigation do not reflect the realities of today's highly competitive entertainment

marketplace. Even combined, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery would account for just 13% of

total U.S. television and streaming viewing time, 18% of the domestic box office over the past 12

months, and 22% on average over the last two years. Those figures reflect a company competing in an

intensely competitive marketplace against tech giants such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and others —

not one with the market power to dictate outcomes for audiences, creators, or distributors. We remain

confident the transaction will be completed, creating a stronger, more competitive media company.

Closing

One year in, we are proud of the progress we’ve made and confident in our strategy. These results are

a testament to our people, whose hard work and dedication have made them possible. Looking ahead,

we will build on this momentum and grow our business by investing in great storytelling, better serving

audiences, and operating more efficiently to create long-term value for shareholders.

Sincerely,

David Ellison

Chairman & CEO

Paramount, a Skydance Corporation

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This letter contains both historical and forward-looking statements, including statements related to our future financial

results and performance, potential achievements and transactions (including in connection with our pending merger

with Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.) and their expected benefits, and industry trends and developments. All statements

that are not statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements within the meaning

of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Similarly, statements that describe our objectives, plans or goals

are or may be forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations

concerning future results and events; can generally be identified by the use of statements that include phrases such as

“believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “foresee,” “likely,” “will,” “may,” “could,” “estimate” or other similar

words or phrases; and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and

which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be different from any future results, performance

or achievements expressed or implied by these statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among

others: risks related to our streaming business; the adverse impact on our advertising revenues as a result of changes in

consumer behavior, advertising market conditions and deficiencies in audience measurement; risks related to operating

in highly competitive and dynamic industries; the unpredictable nature of consumer behavior, as well as evolving

technologies and distribution models; risks related to our decisions to invest in new businesses, products, services and

technologies, and the evolution of our business strategy; the potential for loss of carriage or other reduction in or the

impact of negotiations for the distribution of our content; damage to our reputation or brands; losses due to asset

impairment charges for goodwill, content and long-lived assets, including finite-lived intangible assets; liabilities related

to discontinued operations and former businesses; increasing scrutiny of, and evolving expectations for, sustainability

initiatives; evolving business continuity, cybersecurity, privacy and data protection and similar risks; challenges in

protecting and maintaining our intellectual property rights; domestic and global political, economic and regulatory

factors affecting our businesses generally; the inability to hire or retain key employees or secure creative talent;

disruptions to our operations as a result of labor disputes; risks and costs associated with the integration of, and our

ability to integrate, the businesses of Paramount Global and Skydance Media, LLC successfully and to achieve anticipated

synergies; litigation relating to the Skydance Transactions potentially resulting in substantial costs; volatility in the price

of our Class B common stock; the effect our dual-class capital structure and the concentrated ownership may have on

the price of our Class B common stock or business; risks related to a private sale of a controlling interest in our Company,

including that our stockholders may not realize any change of control premium on shares of our Class B common stock

and that we may become subject to the control of a presently unknown third party; risks associated with our status as a

“controlled company” under Nasdaq rules, including our exemption from certain corporate governance requirements;

risks associated with the lack of voting rights of our Class B common stock; risks that anti-takeover provisions in our

amended and restated certificate of incorporation (“Charter”) and amended and restated bylaws, and under Delaware

law could deter, delay, or prevent a change of control; risks that exclusive forum provisions in our Charter could limit a

stockholder’s choice of forum for certain claims and discourage lawsuits against our directors and officers; risks that

corporate opportunity provisions in our Charter could permit certain persons to pursue competitive opportunities that

might otherwise be available to us; risks associated with our holding company structure, including our dependence on

distributions from our subsidiaries to meet our tax obligations and other cash requirements; disruptions the WBD

Merger may cause to our and WBD’s business and commercial relationships; the negative impact that a failure to

consummate the WBD Merger could have on our business, financial condition, results of operations and stock price; the

risk that the WBD Merger may be prevented or delayed or the anticipated benefits reduced if we do not obtain certain

regulatory approvals; the risk that the WBD Merger Agreement may be terminated in accordance with its terms,

including if any conditions to the closing of the WBD Merger are not satisfied; the risk that litigation relating to the WBD

Merger could prevent or further delay the closing of the WBD Merger or result in the payment of damages after closing;

challenges realizing synergies and other anticipated benefits expected from the WBD Merger, including integrating

WBD’s business successfully; risks to our business, financial condition or results of operations as a result of the

incurrence of substantial costs and indebtedness in connection with the WBD Merger; risks of reduced ownership and

economic interest by our existing stockholders as a result of the WBD Merger; and other factors described in our news

releases and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to our most recent Annual

Report on Form 10-K and our reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K. There may be additional risks, uncertainties and

factors that we do not currently view as material or that are not necessarily known. The forward-looking statements

included in this letter are made only as of the date hereof, and we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update

any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

Financial Statement Presentation

On August 7, 2025, Paramount Global and Skydance Media, LLC (“Skydance”) became subsidiaries of

Paramount Skydance Corporation, pursuant to a transaction agreement entered into on July 7, 2024

(the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreement, the “Skydance Transactions”).

As a result of the new accounting basis established for Paramount Global’s net assets upon the closing

of the Skydance Transactions, the results of operations and cash flows are not comparable between

the Successor and Predecessor periods. Accordingly, our consolidated financial statements within our

Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2026 are presented in two distinct periods. The periods prior to

August 7, 2025 include only Paramount Global and are identified as “Predecessor”, and the periods

beginning on August 7, 2025 reflect Paramount Skydance Corporation and are identified as

“Successor”. The presentation in this letter, the accompanying financial statements, and supplemental

disclosures of non-GAAP financial measures also reflect the distinction between the Successor and

Predecessor periods.

Refer to Note 1 of our Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2026 for additional information regarding

the new accounting basis established in connection with the Skydance Transactions.

PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited; in millions, except per share amounts)

Successor

Predecessor

Successor

Predecessor

Three Months

Ended June 30,

Three Months

Ended June 30,

Six Months

Ended June 30,

Six Months

Ended June 30,

2026

2025

2026

2025

Revenues

$6,913

$6,849

$14,260

$14,041

Costs and expenses:

Operating

4,443

4,624

9,298

9,585

Selling, general and administrative

1,443

1,401

2,854

2,944

Depreciation and amortization

364

726

175

Impairment charges

—

157

—

157

Restructuring and transaction-